Today's post will look more like the search algorithm for the perfect solution for you. We will decide on a problem that can be voiced like this: "How to choose a piano."
This is how people are arranged: they are accustomed to confusion over trifles and will never decide to buy, if they do not know about the subject everything that is available to their understanding or understanding of the person authoritative for them. Hence a brief conclusion - in order for the choice to be worthy, we just need to navigate a little in the area of the issue put on the agenda.
Yes, let us return to the algorithm, or, if you wish, to the information instruction. Just answer your own questions and decide with a personal opinion on each of the steps described.
1. What purpose are you pursuing when acquiring a piano?
The options here are: a child’s musical activities at school, amateur music-making or more serious musical activities (this threatens those who enrolled in a school or a conservatory).
The comment is: take an acoustic piano for a child - what if he becomes a pianist? In this case, it will be extremely important for him to develop strength in his hands, the lessons on electronic pianos with a light keyboard are ineffective from this point of view. All protests of neighbors ruthlessly reject! For entertainment or for accompaniment to your favorite songs, a digital analogue will do, and then a synthesizer will do. Well, and even those who decided to become a professional, God himself ordered to get either a piano, or a very strong expensive piano
2. Where are you going to put the piano?
It is important to determine the size of your musical instrument, because it will occupy part of the living space and space.
Of course, the piano takes up less space than a grand piano, and this is no secret to anyone. But, nevertheless, there are very cozy little pianos, which only decorate the interior and do not create discomfort in the room, and there are cumbersome pianos, which, although less than a grand piano, but visually take up more space.
Therefore, before you decide to buy, there is nothing easier than to choose a piano in the parameters. Pianos are distinguished by length, and pianos - by height.
The types of pianos are:
- minion - up to 140 cm in length;
- room - from 150 to 180 cm in length;
- saloon - from 190 to 220 cm in length;
- small and large concert - from 225 to 310 cm in length.
Piano types:
- small, which are up to 120 cm in height;
- large ones that are between 120 and 170 cm high.
It is important to notice. Count on the fact that the piano must be at least two meters away from heat sources (heaters).
3. How much are you willing to pay for the piano?
Of course, the main factor is also the cost of a musical instrument. It is best to determine in advance the limit of cost in which you need to meet. Based on this, it will be easier to determine the class of a musical instrument. Do not forget that you will pay not only for the tool itself, you will be forced to pay for transportation and loading, so cut down the amount you have set by 10% - you will save for transportation and any unforeseen expenses.
4. What to take - new or new?
There are pros and cons for each item.
Situation 1. We buy a new tool in the store or from the manufacturer
New and modern pianos, as a rule, do not have a factory marriage. Defects during transportation can also be easily avoided by hiring bona fide loaders. The tool itself is not traumatized by any past use and past masters. In addition, the new device will last a very long time, if you follow some of the rules of maintenance: the required level of humidity in the room (according to the technical passport), the timely production of settings and adjustments. On the other hand, on the new instrument you will not be able to appreciate the beauty of the sound (new instruments are played for a long time), and in this area even well-known companies have punctures.
Situation 2. How to choose a piano from the number of used?
If the vector of your attention is aimed at buying up the instrument from another person, and not from the company, then to watch the piano, it is advisable to take along a professional master in the class of such musical instruments, that is, a tuner.
What are the pitfalls here? The most unpleasant and annoying is to buy a piano or a grand piano, which does not keep order. Open the lid and take a closer look: if veneer sticks out of the nests with spikes, if the spikes themselves, on which the strings are attached, are crammed unevenly, if the instrument does not have enough strings (gaps) - these are all bad signs. Such a tool is even useless to tune, as it is flawed. Another pebble is the price; the owner may simply not know it and appoint it at random, in particular, to inflate it. The specialist will tell you exactly what you are paying for and how much.
There are certainly positive moments. This is just an opportunity to evaluate the sound. The played instrument will appear before you in all its brilliance or in all its shadow. You decide for yourself whether the sound is pleasant or disgusting. Be careful not to buy instruments whose sound is too loud and loud, and the keyboard is too light. A good sound is soft and melodious, pearly; good keys - those that do not knock and drop not sharply, but a little tight, as if supported by internal resistance.
Never ignore the look of the piano. Let them assure you that the instrument is old, sounds good, etc. Holes in the keys and the holes in the pedals you do not need! You are with them.
Tip: if you want to save money, then do not buy used musical instruments in music stores - they will sell you expensive and whatever you like. Unfortunately, the entire responsibility of the master musician to the client disappears somewhere, when he needs not to consult, but to sell. Even in companies that specialize in the restoration and repair of old tools, you can sell "firewood" with disgusting mechanics and even more disgusting sound. Hence the conclusion: do not trust offices, trust only people.
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