Piano Forum
Piano Board => Instruments => Topic started by: fredhoupt on February 20, 2013, 11:43:25 AM
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Just bought an apartment sized Riga upright. Very inexpensive. I cannot find out any info on the brand. It is a low end product and will do me just fine until I can leap up to a Yahama product at some later point in my life. Anyone know much about who makes this piano and any stories about them would be fun to read.
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Lira produces 600 to 700 pianos a year, compared with the more than 7,000 uprights and grands it annually assembled from domestic parts during Soviet times. Its bright new showroom in northern Moscow displays a sampling of its instruments, including a model named after Tchaikovsky, a $2,000 instrument advertised as an "economy" piano for the middle class.
But the bulk of pianos for sale in Russia are better-known imports, which piano experts say typically have better sound and are of higher quality. Those instruments are bought by serious musicians and well-to-do Russians who consider a piano a desirable adornment to a spacious living room.
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What is the connection between Lira and Riga pianos?