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Topic: If you were in a piano competition, what piano would you choose?  (Read 2011 times)

Offline classicarts

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If you were in a piano competiton, what brand of piano would you choose and why? 

Offline leahcim

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If you were in a piano competiton, what brand of piano would you choose and why? 

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"The most advanced sound engineering technology available" - how can you go wrong? For a serious competition, they do a version with 61 keys.

Or perhaps, if pushed, a bosendorfer, but it'd mean dropping the Xylophone number :)

Offline bernhard

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The amazing roll-up piano.


Been there, done that:

https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php/topic,5706.0.html

 8)

As further incentive, in one episode of "Star Trek: Generations", a new crew member (she is one of the high officers) uses one to insouciate herself into Picard's cabin and they play a duet (she on the roll-up piano, him on some sort of thin whistle). Boy, does that rollup pinao sounds good! you could easily mistake it for a Fazioli/Bose/Steinway. Which just shows where this technology may be 500 years in the future. ;D

Best wishes,
Bernhard.
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Offline BoliverAllmon

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i would pick a piano that sounds like a russian bass singer. I love quality.

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Steinway Model D. It's the best piano I have ever played on.

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OK, for my life I can't post a picture for you to guess what it is, so you can see it here: Steingraeber 272: :P

https://www.steingraeber.de/
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OK, for my life I can't post a picture for you to guess what it is, so you can see it here: Steingraeber 272: :P

https://www.steingraeber.de/

Oh, you mean like this. ;)



Steingraeber E272


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Offline xvimbi

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Why, it would be a Fazibechblüyamawaidorfer, model D, of course. The digital version ;D

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Re: If you were in a piano competition, what piano would you choose?
Reply #10 on: October 16, 2005, 01:45:32 AM
Bösendorfer or Förster.

Offline Axtremus

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Re: If you were in a piano competition, what piano would you choose?
Reply #11 on: October 17, 2005, 06:24:42 AM
The piano I've been practicing on for the last 1000 hours. The piano on which I have worked out every nuance. The piano whose every quirk I know like the back of my hand -- i.e., my own piano.

Offline pianistimo

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Re: If you were in a piano competition, what piano would you choose?
Reply #12 on: October 17, 2005, 11:14:38 AM
maybe a petrov or steinway with lots of bass and smooth sounding treble.

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Re: If you were in a piano competition, what piano would you choose?
Reply #13 on: October 17, 2005, 07:08:37 PM
The piano I've been practicing on for the last 1000 hours. The piano on which I have worked out every nuance. The piano whose every quirk I know like the back of my hand -- i.e., my own piano.

...and the piano that you have been practicing so diligently on is...?
Sauter Delta (185cm) polished ebony 'Lucy'
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Offline leahcim

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Re: If you were in a piano competition, what piano would you choose?
Reply #14 on: October 17, 2005, 07:46:51 PM
...and the piano that you have been practicing so diligently on is...?

...hairy with knuckles?
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