Tuning

[elviro]

Hello! 

Lets see: I have been playing guitar for some years. And now I'm starting to teach myself piano with some books and a midi keyboard. As I want to get serious with practice, I've started dreaming about purchasing an acoustic piano.

My question is: How frequently must a piano be tuned? A guitar must be tuned nearly each time you pick it for playing... and if a piano is similar, maybe this kind of maintenance would bee too expensive... or, with proper learning, could I tune it myself?

Thanks in advance!!   

(PS: I know I posted this some days ago in the Instruments forum, but nobody answered, and very few people read it. As long as it's a student's question, and this is a more visited forum, I've decided to repost it here. Sorry if it causes any inconvenience)

[mound]

Take a look Here


You might want to consider getting an higher end digital piano instead to get started with. I like my Roland RD-700.


-Paul

[elviro]

Thanks a lot for the link and the advice!

Do you know any keyboard that just sounds as a piano? I mean, to be able to have a lot of instrument sounds in a keyboard is something i get with cubase. Instead, do you know any model of the mentioned kind? (also maybe it would be cheaper, I hope).

Thanks again.

[xvimbi]

Do you know any keyboard that just sounds as a piano? I mean, to be able to have a lot of instrument sounds in a keyboard is something i get with cubase. Instead, do you know any model of the mentioned kind? (also maybe it would be cheaper, I hope).

No keyboard sounds like an acoustic, otherwise nobody would buy acoustics anymore.
Look around on this forum. There is a lot of info on digital pianos. A decent digital starts at around $1,000 - give or take. Good ones are in the $1,750-2,500 range. Beyond that, the sky is the limit. Looks like you have Cubase. You could then get a good piano sample (~$300), connect a good digital ($1,750) to your computer (lots of RAM - 2GB and more), connect that to your stereo system, and you'll have a digital piano as good as it gets.

[elviro]

 

Thanks for the info.