Used to the wrong keys?

[njimenez4u]

I don't know if this is the case or not. But when i am home i practice and play on an old upright from the 30's. I live in a small apartment next to other people, and to keep it from getting so loud, i use the una corda all the time. I have grown fond of the sound it produces, but not the fact the mechanism inside the piano moves the hammers closer to the strings, making the keys lighter, and way easier to push. I fear that I have gotten so use to the easiness of the keys and the lightness of them that sometimes when I play on other pianos such as the grand i recently played at my school, it is harder for me to play, and all of my intended dynamics are shot, and my playing is completely different from when I am at home. Does anybody have any possible solutions to my problem? I once posted about this earlier and someone suggested a device that a tuner of piano professional can install that is a pad on the strings and softens the sound even more so i don't have to use the una corda, which by the way if i take off the una corda the keys are like any other normal piano keys. Anybody?

[link0126]

You could try the QRS PNO Scan record strip which essentially gives your piano MIDI capabilities and has a mute bar that comes in front of the strings but doesn't change the touch of the keys. https://www.qrsmusic.com/pianomation-p.asp?pid=3382 Then you can use headphones etc.

You could also buy a digital piano. They are quite good now days. When I lived in an apartment years ago I bought a Roland digital. It is still all I have.

If you like the dampened sound you could try the felt I guess, but I wouldn't want to always have to play with that sound.