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First time piano buyer - advice needed

  • 15-04-2005 11:05am
    #1
    Caromcl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭


    Hi, am looking to buy a piano for a beginner - any recommendations/advice would be appreciated. We're in Galway.
    thx in advance.


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  • #2
    jimi_t
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,579 ✭✭✭jimi_t


    I'd probably recommend a Yamaha Overstrung - It's the standard piano used in most Associated Board music schools, really nice tone and build quality and you definitely won't grow out of it for a *long* time.
    If space is an issue, a clavinova (electric piano) might be an option, from the ones in Waltons I've doodled on this is probably my favourite in proportion to price (at about e1399) but any decent branded clavinova (NOT KEYBOARD) that has velocity sensitive and weighted keys with 88 keys will do you nicely.


  • #3
    DArcy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 200 ✭✭DArcy


    You definitely can't go wrong with a Yamaha. Or Kawai, which are sometimes a bit cheaper.

    It depends on the kind of money you want to spend and the amount of room you have. I recently bought a 2nd hand Yamaha - it was 18 years old & had been imported from some kind of "state" house in Germany where it was hardly ever used. It's a beautiful piano & has a well developed tone. Avoid pianos that have originated from schools of music or just schools in general....they've prolly taken a good beating.

    A proper piano dealer will know how old the piano is & where it originated from - avoid the cowboys! :rolleyes:


  • #4
    jimi_t
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,579 ✭✭✭jimi_t


    DArcy wrote:
    Avoid pianos that have originated from schools of music or just schools in general....they've prolly taken a good beating.

    Went to Clongowes for one of the ELC french courses during the summer, and some of the pianos there *shudder*... The only one that was in anyway good condition was a Yamaha one - they can certainly take a beating :)


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