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Topic: My Piano have weird touch... does this harms my practice?  (Read 2292 times)

Offline langsam

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the touch is not even on my piano, the touch have dramatic differences between those in lower register and those in higher register...

i am wondering if i would develop bad habits on such piano.

it's an upright but i don't think it matters.

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Re: My Piano have weird touch... does this harms my practice?
Reply #1 on: June 02, 2009, 07:14:59 AM
Don't worry.  I'm sure that's not going to be the last piano you own in this lifetime.  I remember years ago, when I prepared for my diploma, I had a piano like yours.  It was so light touched in the treble, and heavy sounding in the base, at times I thought I was playing a saloon piano.  But when I went for my diploma, I had a beautiful STeinway concert grand, and as I was playing, I marveled at how it seemed to react to every little dynamic impulse I gave it.  And I think it's precisely because I had been used to a piano where I had to exaggerate all the colors and dynamics to get them to come out!

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Re: My Piano have weird touch... does this harms my practice?
Reply #2 on: June 02, 2009, 09:13:49 AM
Don't worry.  I'm sure that's not going to be the last piano you own in this lifetime.  I remember years ago, when I prepared for my diploma, I had a piano like yours.  It was so light touched in the treble, and heavy sounding in the base, at times I thought I was playing a saloon piano.  But when I went for my diploma, I had a beautiful STeinway concert grand, and as I was playing, I marveled at how it seemed to react to every little dynamic impulse I gave it.  And I think it's precisely because I had been used to a piano where I had to exaggerate all the colors and dynamics to get them to come out!

ah my piano is actually a machine to do hell-like trainings for me ?  ;D thx for sharing!

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Re: My Piano have weird touch... does this harms my practice?
Reply #3 on: June 07, 2009, 05:23:55 AM
Does it harm your practice?  Yes.  How?  Because you are actually practicing compensation; you practice compensating for the differences of each key.  Well-regulated pianos would not require such practice.  Call your piano technician and have him regulate it.

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Re: My Piano have weird touch... does this harms my practice?
Reply #4 on: June 10, 2009, 01:28:23 PM
Have your piano regulated by a technician. Generally 500-700 dollars, give or take a few. A good tech can bring it back to specs if done right.
A piano deperately in need of regulating can definately affect your practice for the reasons posted above. You should not have to compensate.
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