I'm a fairly advanced student and play my piano a lot, but it's an old (1940s) family relic, doesn't stay in tune and I have a B flat that doesn't even play. That really sort of ruins a couple of the that I love playing. It's so bad during the summer because the keys stick from the humidity that I hardly play at all between June and September. (I don't have air conditioning)I'm a divorced mother that is paying off a lot of debt from the marriage, so I don't have the money to buy or even finance a new piano for another 3 years. I suffer on my piano because I know once a week I can go to my teacher's house and play on his Baldwin grand. I am contemplating getting a digital piano to hold me over and have had the Yamaha Clavinova suggested to me. I saw the price (about $2k - $3k) and was thinking that if I could shell out the cash for that, I'd be better served by saving that money and putting it towards a new piano in a few more years.I don't want to give up the tone, action and dynamics of an acoustic piano, though I'm told I wouldn't lose that with a Clavinova. I'm American and love my instant gratification - but I don't want to make a foolish purchase when I plan to be a player for the rest of my life.
It's so bad during the summer because the keys stick from the humidity that I hardly play at all between June and September. (I don't have air conditioning)
This may not be in the key set at all.If this is a 70 yr old instrument from the 1940’s that would put this one in the early small upright category. The compressed action geometry in these actions did not allow much in the way of friction to enter the equation…..The sticky key symptom could well be in the action not the keyboard. The flanges are possibly dirty, especially the whippen flanges and in summer the added water swelling into the bushings is causing too much friction. If a whippen sticks high the jack will not reset and gives the appearance at times of a sticky key…..