What instrument do u have at home?

[pianogalning]

Hi,

I just wondered: What instrument do u guys(and girls) have at home, if you have any.
For myself, I got a Steinway D-model grand piano from 1876. It's just been fixed up for 10.000$ and sounds like a new one, at least in my living-room. The piano came to Norway with the same boat as the piano Grieg ordered (wich now can be seen at Troldhaugen, Griegs home, and which Leif Ove Andsnes recently recorded a cd on). During WW2 my piano was used as a dancing table for german officers. Does your instrument have a story like that, if so, tell us all about it!

Hauk

[eins]

You mean, you don't have a dedicated piano room for it? C'mon, a piano that came on the same boat as Grieg's and has $10K sunk into it deserves its own room!

 

[mamma2my3sons]

Hauk, congratulations to you. How cool to know the history of your piano.  I have a 2004 Kohler & Campbell 5'9" grand in high polished ebony. No neat story to tell. Just a gorgeous piano that I'm quite pleased with until I win the lottery & can afford a Steinway.

[violinist]

I just got my steinway B delievered to my door.  It's great.  No history, because it's new.  Just starting make history. 

[xvimbi]

I just got my steinway B delievered to my door.  It's great.  No history, because it's new.  Just starting make history. 

Darn, they didn't even bring it into the house?

They probably did

Have fun with your new B

[onebottlesolution]

I just got my steinway B delievered to my door.  It's great.  No history, because it's new.  Just starting make history. 

congratulations! i've been following your discussion over the past couple weeks. i myself am a violinist and studied piano when i was in school. i just took delivery of a new bosie 214 two weeks ago. it's an exciting feeling, no?

[jeremyjchilds]

I have a little tiny Gem. A Seiler primus. 

It's a sleeper in terms of looks ...untill you play it

[llamaman]

Err....my brown Weber baby grand was passed down from my grandmother to my mother, and when I turn 18 I get it  I hope.......

[violinist]

congratulations! i've been following your discussion over the past couple weeks. i myself am a violinist and studied piano when i was in school. i just took delivery of a new bosie 214 two weeks ago. it's an exciting feeling, no?

Oh yes it's a great feeling.  I love my new steinway.  I've had it for 2 days and I had to pried away from it for dinner, sleep, anything else.  Even left the violin on the sofa for the weekend.

And the Bosendorfer is such a great instrument.  I would like to play it some more.  Hopefully I'll get to listen to some bosendorfer music in the audition room?  I have to get some recording equipment and figure out how to convert to .mp3's.

I took a few piano lessons in college (about 12-15 years ago) for about 2-3 months and it made me a better violin player.  I was able to get in with a great teacher because she was curious about teaching a violinist.  I was a terrible pianist, and people had to audition to get in to be her student, but I was enough of a violinist to slip in for a few months.

Good luck with the Bosie!

Congrats... and thanks xvimbi... pretty funny comments

[luc]

I just bought a new 2005 Yamaha in June.. so..

[violinist]

Yamaha's are great instruments too... so 

[steve jones]

Lol, you guys would laugh if you saw my piano. To say that its a 'knacker' would be the understatement of the century!

Its an old 'Crane and Sons' ( ) that I borrowed from my sister. It is out of tuning in quite a bad way. However, Iv never played a really good piano so I as yet unspoiled. Im dreading the day that I get play something nice - that will be an expensive day at Jones residence 

Btw, I second that Yamaha make good gear. I used to stock loads of Yamaha stuff at our shop. The woodwind and brass was excellent, and the guitars were fantastic for the money. I dont doubt that the piano's are of equally quality and value. Infact, when I eventually upgrade, I may well be giving my Yamaha contact a call 

[bearzinthehood]

There's a Yamaha C2 in my parents house.  It's bright as hell and the action is chunky but I love it anyways, especially compared to the pianos in the practice rooms at my school. 

[princessdecadence]

A Yamaha grand C3 in my parents (they're way too nice to buy a grand when I play the piano like a baby with its feet).  In my brother's, a Lippman upright that's decades old.  Where I live - just a digital piano - I think a Yamaha Clavinova. 

A 50-quid german violin with nothing written on it - it came in a victorian violin case and most definitely more than 100 years old (well battered!).  Which I bring everywhere I go.

A Hofner cello 1992 which I got new when I was still at school. 

[rubix]

I have a Heintzman. It was my my great grandmother's, and she gave it to my mother. It started out in Barrie, Ontario, moved to Vancouver when my mom got it and then to Edmonton. During all that time it was never tuned. When we hired a piano tuner 8 years ago, it was almost in perfect tune! (he said we shouldn't have bothered with the tuning)

[classicarts]

  Just got my Yamaha C3.

[allthumbs]

I have a 5'2" Ivory Sojin baby grand that my in-laws purchased in 1995, for my daughters to take lessons.

Nice starting piano, but we've outgrown it somewhat.

I'd like a Schimmel CC 213 T.




Cheers

allthumbs

[quantum]

Well I have a Yamaha C3 that has been in my house a little over a year.  It has only had one previous owner, and the serial number traces back to about 1985.  The previous owner took extreemly good care of the piano.  The last tuner that recently came to tune (under contract from the store where I bought it) didn't realize it was used until she went to do the voiceing after tuning it.  The hammers needed a bit of reshaping. 

One intersting story about this piano, I was cleaning it out.  When I realized there were a buch of sunflower seeds dopped down in a corner.  They didn't interfere with the action, and I vacumed out as much as I could. 


I also have a junk Henitzman.  Got it free from my school.  It only has about one-third of the hammers in place, all the rest have broken hammer shanks.  I was supposed to fix it up as a project, but never got to it.  Well at least the temperment octave is all there so I can practice my tuning on that, and it holds tune verry well.  A was still at 440 a couple days ago, and the last time I attempted to tune it was about 5 to 7 years ago. 

[andrewrance]

I have a Yamaha GC1 - 2005 vintage, and a 1911 Broadwood upright.   The Broadwood is identical to the three that were provided for entertainment on the Titanic (and there was also a Broadwood grand on the ship).   I have kept mine for sentimental reasons, mainly, but it is still quite playable and tuned to A440.

[gerry]

I'm fairly new to this forum and am having fun picking up on these old threads from 2005.

My pianos run the gamut. At home I have a Bosendorfer 225 that I bought new in 1969. I wasn't even in the market for a piano at the time (I had an old pre 20th century reconditioned steinway that seemed OK) but a friend told me about this amazing little dealership in Everett, WA that stocked exotic pianos and urged me to drive up from Seattle and try them. It was love at first sight and play - I  sat down and played Chopin's Etude Op25,#1 and knew I had to have it. I continued to visit over the next 2 or 3 months (I'm very patient) until the dealer finally called and said "let's deal".  The next part of this story will probably be painful for some to hear, but the price was only $9,350! On top of that, the dealer co-signed the loan so I could buy it so after about 5 years of $150/month it was mine. (Just for laughs, I've attached a jpeg of the sticker). Needless to say, within the next 2 or 3 years the price had more than doubled and continued to rise to where I could never even think of buying one today. Interestingly enough I went from the 1890 Steinway (keyboard upper range only reached to A not C) to the Bosey which goes down to the low F not A) so in all I gained 7 keys!

My other piano at my small cabin is a refurbished Halet & Davis parlor upright that's really quite refreshing and charming to play really as it reminds me of simpler times and a sound that filled most parlors during the last couple of centuries - a nice reality fix compared to the Bosey.

I have a third - an older Yamaha PF100 (essentially the portable version of the Clavinova) that I can load into my van and take down to Cabo San Lucas for extended vacations. It isn't affected by the humidity and I can play to my heart's content with the earphones on and maintain my technique. It has an excellent weighted action and the best internal speakers of any of the digital pianos.

It's been fun sharing this info.

[amelialw]

I have a K.Kawai K2-EG

[electrodoc]

I have a Yamaha S6 purchased earlier this year which I love and also a Clavinova CVP305 (pre-owned) purchased last year. The Clavinova is excellent for practice, especially late at night.  It also stops excess wear of the hammers of the S6.

My wife has a flute, cello and violin (the violin is sadly not used.)

[beethovenlover]

I have a Kingsbury upright...

I also have a Yamaha P-120S.

I dislike both, but they're definitely better than the ones in the practice rooms at school!!!

[musique_lover]

hi guys, im new to the forum!
wow interesting posts here.
well, i've got a grand piano thats kinda cranky now though its just, a few years. and i've a yamaha clavinova thats just love <3
other than that i've got a yamaha guitar and a few chinese instruments that i love very much too.

would like to have a steinway grand in the future!

[joyfulmusic]

I have a 7' Pearl River.  When I was considering it I went on this site and asked if anyone knew about them.  The silence was deafening.  So i played it extensively in the shop and had a great technician who was tweaking it this way and that to my liking.  The bass is phenomenal.  The action is even.  I know I'm a weird duck but I don't like the brightness of Steinways.  Perhaps its because I'm a singer also.  I bought it a year and a half ago.  Best damn piano I ever ever had.  I've had a Halet and David grande, a Steinway Grande, pleasedeargawd a Lester Grande (mom thought it was great... don't ask), a Barock upright which absolutely never had good action despite numerous attempts by a company rep, etc.  After years of playing out as they say, I have played on just about every kind of piano there is.  Some are like tomatoes in January... it looks like a tomato but...

[buick8]

OK, I will come clean (I saw at least on other who admitted it): I have a Sojin DG-2 grand, gloss black, which I bought new in 1984. I thought it was worth $4500 and I could not play it much, anyway, I just love pianos and had to have one; a real one (i.e. a grand). The same technician has tuned it since new; he said it stays in tune good and it has been a good piano; hasn't required any extraordinary work and the keys don't stick; tone and touch seem OK at least, especially compared to the old uprights and spinets I had access to at the time I bought it. I'm sure if I were much more than a self-taught hobbyist I might not be as satisfied, but for the price I'm OK.

[pianochick93]

I have a Carl Faust and John piano. Supposedly from Germany. I don't know how long we have had it, at least 13 years, and the soft pedal has stopped working. Last time we had it tuned we were told that if it was tuned to the pitch it was supposed to be, the strings would snap. It is now in tune with itself, but a semitone out of everything else.
We can't afford to buy a new piano, so this one will do for the moment. It has a beautiful sound, despite not actually being in tune.

[richard black]

An Ibach upright, bought new in 1986 - the best upright I've ever played, bar none. Fantastic tone and the action is as responsive - loud and quiet - as a good Renner grand action.

Also a Bechstein Model V from 1889, bought secondhand a few months ago. Amazing instrument - really heavy sound, not great for most music composed since the 1920s but just fabulous for the classics and romantics.

So my wife and I refer the the 'new' piano (over a century old) and the 'old one' (just come of age)....

[thalbergmad]

I have got a crappy Korg and a Clavinova which is infested with earwigs.

Also a nice Omegan organ, a piano accordian, a few guitars and 8 banjos.

Thal

[richard black]

a Clavinova which is infested with earwigs.

Deaf earwigs - like the deaf woodworm in my Vox AC30 bass amp.

[thalbergmad]

Dead earwigs hopefully. One of the disadvantages of keeping ones piano in the garage as my house is full up with other old rubbish.

I also put mousetraps on my piano and there was one in it this morning when i went to play. They just cannot resist a little chunk of Fruit & Nut.

I am boarding up the loft next spring and will move the poor old thing inside.

Thal

[nyonyo]

I have a disklavier. I love to be able to listen what I practice so that I can evaluate my playing. Sound wise is not as full as I like, but the action is very good. Compareable to most of very expensive pianos such as Steinway, Bodensorfer etc (better than Bechstein, Bechstein has stiff action, I just don't like the action of that brand). For my need, I do not too beautiful of sound at this moment.

I would like to upgrade to Yamaha C3.

[sheena]

I have a Yamaha U1. I bought it last spring and I like it alot so far. I had a Fazer earlier which was crap.. .The Yamaha was owned by old lady who probably didn't play much on it because of her age, and then she died. First I was thinking of getting a Grotrian Steinweg which also were for sale in the same shop but I decided to go with the Yamaha..

[njalli]

yamaha grand c5