Adjusting to various pianos

[super_ardua]

My digital pianos' touch is weighted,  but still is super light.  I don't have a real piano (not enough space)

My teacher's one has much heavier touch,  and the ones at schools'  touch is similar to my digital.

I notice that when I go tio my teachers house,  whilst I can do fast trills and double notes at home,  they sound absolutely rubbish and nowhere near as intended.  I find myself to busy trying to adjust to the difference in feel to think about anything else.

[paris]

hi! i have the same problem. passages can sound wonderful on my piano, but when i play them on other piano (for example, bad model of stainway) they sound very ugly. and it's the same with room where you perform, they have various acoustic, so you need less or more pedal.
before concert, i always have rehearsal, but sometimes i can't adjust to piano.
my old teacher said-if you are a good pianist, you will play well on every piano. (sad, isn't it?   )
but i have another method-when i have a concert, before it i try to find the worst piano and on it i practise my passages. maybe it sounds funny but it works actually.

[super_ardua]

(Have you ever tried to play the opening to La Campanella on a super bright piano - try it,  or rather,  don't, because the higher notes cause my ears to tell me,  whatever I'm doing right now,  please stop it because it hurts like anything)

I can play on grands,  because their touch is more like my digital,  but with uprights the difference is quite big

[Clare]

Yes, I can also totally relate. Everything sounds so much better at home....
The way I am overcoming it is to practice on the most difficult pianos to play on that I can find. There's a particularly crazy Yamaha grand I'm practicing on at university and I'm determined to tame it. So try wandering into a place where there's lots of pianos around and give them a go.
Also, on my quest to be able to adapt to any piano I have discovered that if my hands and arms are quite stiff and rigid (which is bad anyway) then there is a big chance the playing will sound awful and patchy on an unfamiliar piano. If your fingers and wrists are more bouncy and have a certain 'give' to them then it is way more likely that all the notes will come out better.
After a while of continually trying out new pianos, you will probably get an idea of how a certain brand or model will behave even before you play it, which is handy.

[donjuan]

I can play on grands,  because their touch is more like my digital,  but with uprights the difference is quite big

wow....

[super_ardua]

wow....

You know what I mean - they have that sort of "feel"

I can't put it into words,  but they have something in common.

Uprights are however a different story.

One thing I can't bare is,  because I sometimes have perfect pitch on certain  notes,  if the piano is slightly out of tune, it feels horrible.

[donjuan]

what kind of Digital do you have?  I have a Roland FP3, and I thought it was more similar to the upright action...
donjuan

[rhapsody in orange]

two things i don't particularly feel comfortable with..the difference in weight of the keys and the pedal too. i've played on a cristofori piano (don't know which model it was) for an exam and the pedal was so light. kinda hard to control. the minute yu apply a bit of pressure on the pedal, it goes all the way down. hmm.

[mound]

I have a Roland RD-700 and I find it totally acceptable.. Fully weighted keys, great sustain and sympathetic vibration in the samples..

it is of course different than a real piano. My teacher says this is just something pianists have to get used to, quickly adapting to a given piano.. The upright piano I play when I go to my parents house is old and feels pretty miserable actually, but it's all they have.. My teacher gives lessons out of a church, and pretty much every week we end up in a different room on a different piano.. Good experience I guess adjusting..

-Paul