Hi all.....
If you have an acoustic piano there's no need to buy a silent pianoIn fact you acoustic can be turn into a silent acoustic piano by installing a devide that will permit you to hear the piano on your headphones while other people will hear nothingIt works the same as for silent piano but instead of buy a new silent piano you add a device that cost less of 150$ to trasform your narmal piano into a silento pianoThere are more than 20 dealers where I live who do this kind of work and I can assure you that it works and I'm amazed to see that I'm the only one here who know about this possibility Daniel
Thank you so much Daniel.....I had heard about these, but anytime I had asked a piano dealer about this kind of device they had told me it was a my imagination. You wouldn't happen to know the brand names of these devices?dmk
You might want to consider www.pppkeys.com. This actually a device my piano tuner created and sells.Tony
I got a Yamaha U3 silent delivered yesterday. The touch is good, I like the clarity and richness of the sound (compared to my previous piano, an old Rösler), but on lower keys it is very difficult to play quietly (piano, pp, etc) because it seems that either the hammer doesn't reach the strings or it hits them too hard and it is difficult to adjust the touch to the high threshold of producing the sound. However I don't see this to be as much a problem in the higher end of the piano, and I guess this should only develop the sensitivity of my touch. The digital sounds are pretty convincing with earphones, though they tend to scramble when using sostenuto with una corda.