Rent a digital piano in Munich ?

[bach481]

hello everyone
Has anyone had any experience about the music shops in (Germany-Munich) ?
I want to rent a digital piano here
please

[pianist1976]

hello everyone
Has anyone had any experience about the music shops in (Germany-Munich) ?
I want to rent a digital piano here
please

Hi! I don't live in Germany so I cannot know for sure but only guess: If music shops there work like in other European countries, I guess there are no digital pianos for rental, as well as there are no official in shop digital pianos second hand market. I may be wrong but it's my guess.

Anyway digital pianos are usually cheaper than acoustic ones (there are exceptions such as the Avantgrand, I know  ) and they are usually more portable so, why don't buy one? You can have a decent instrument from 1200 euros. If you'd had to rent one, let's say if they asked 100 eur per moth, in one year you'd had expended the same money as buying one.

You also may consider that there are many stores that allows pay by installment so it would be like renting the instrument by a monthly fee, with the main advantage of ultimately owning it...

[timothy42b]

Hi! I don't live in Germany so I cannot know for sure but only guess: If music shops there work like in other European countries, I guess there are no digital pianos for rental, as well as there are no official in shop digital pianos second hand market. I may be wrong but it's my guess.

When I lived in Germany years ago I bought a used digital from Thomann. 

It's still working after all these years.  I have it plugged into an air conditioning outlet because it needed 220V. 

[pianist1976]

When I lived in Germany years ago I bought a used digital from Thomann.   

Hi! Just out of curiosity, was it a used digital or a returned item? 

[timothy42b]

I bought a Yamaha P-500, which was an obsolete model even then.

It had been long used by one owner in his home studio.  I think he did a lot of arranging and recording work. 

I have no idea how old it is, but everything still works.

Unfortunately these didn't come dual voltage and are not convertable.  My choices when my employer returned me to the US were to get a huge transformer, or move it to the room with an air conditioner.  I kept the German power strip, cut off the plug, and attached an American air conditioning 220V plug. 

I bought it at the Thomann store, in a little tiny German town not far from Bamberg and Kitzingen.  The store was huge, the town had one restaurant and a dozen houses and was way off on a country road.  If you didn't know it was there you were not going to find it.