Response of electric pianos.

[justliam]

Ok, I haven't been in the position to afford a teacher since I left school, (being a student at uni).  Anywho, this is a question regarding certain responses of electric pianos.  For those vastly experienced in using both, would you say it is a lot harder to get fine dynamics on an electric piano.  Secondly, regarding the action on electrical pianos.  I'm learning Bartok's 6 Roumanian Dances, more specifically, the 5th one, which has lots of fast grace notes in.  At times I find that they are near impossible to play, without absolutely concentrating on them and nothing else.  Is it just a case of practise or some things just not playing on certain electric pianos? I have played the piece on another piano and found it much easier as you keys were much lighter and came back up into position quicker, however the dynamics were much hard to control.  So what is the general concesus? Do I just need to practise and practise and practise to play it on this one piano, or bid my time till I have a proper one?

[stringoverstrung]

Hi Justliam,

my experience is that you  can practice well on an electric piano as long as you play regularly (eg once a week) on an acoustic piano. It is dangerous to loose touch with the qualtiy of sound and being involved with "making" sound on an acoustic piano (you can get away with banging the electric piano but not the acoustic one so to speak).

for one the electric improved my speed because the keyboard was very even and didn't require heavy action like my normal piano does.

I definitely think it's better to practice on an electric then not play at all , just be aware that you're playing "electric"...

gr,
Stringoverstrung