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Openwood

nobody could believe how we got it to sound

Evidence that any basically sound piano can be made to sound great with the efforts of a good technician? I couldn't possibly say...

Openwood

I am not suggesting you drop a grand

Have you told G&R?

Openwood

The fact that they already admitted that the first piano wasn't set-up properly means there's even less excuse for them to fob you off with a second basket case. How on earth can a dealer send out an instrument that hasn't been set-up properly? That shouldn't be possible. It sounds as if you have ex...

Openwood

What is a floating soundboard? It conjures up an exotic picture but I'm guessing the reality is more mundane?

Openwood

I'm certainly no fan of electric pianos but Crispin's advice sounds sensible in your position. There's no point in rushing the purchase of an acoustic instrument - you might end up with that 'if only I'd taken more time' feeling and that's an expensive mistake to make. Buying a piano should be a ple...

Openwood

A porcelain piano? It reminds me of one of Dr. Johnson's observations: "A woman's preaching is like a dog dancing on its hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find that it is done at all." He wouldn't have got very far in what passes for the Church of England these day...

Openwood

its missing the playing mechanism?

I'm glad Joseph raised that; I was wondering the same thing but didn't have the nerve to ask

Openwood

I too have a sound which is very elusive on my piano; the sound of the right notes being played

Openwood

(Well, maybe a grand with a silent system will appear in my stocking at christmas, but if not...)

Is that a silent system in your stocking or are you just pleased to see me?

I'll get my coat....

Openwood

I ask a piano teacher, she ask me to play it as long as I have time, especially some heavy piece before the tuning. now i am confused

I think Brumtuner meant 'don't touch the insides of the piano' to try and adjust anything, not 'don't play' the piano.

Openwood

I'm not an upright enthusiast generally but even I have to admit that is a beautiful-looking piano. If it sounds as good as it looks you must be over the moon!

Openwood

I've heard great things about the Kemble Mozarts. Personally I don't like 'em but that's just subjective and you'd get a beautiful-looking piano that's well-built and sounds great. Bags more personality than yet-another-Yamaha. Go for it...

Openwood

Bluthners and Bechsteins and Bosens as warm gluey baths of asses milk

Strange how they've never used that phrase in their marketing

ennjaydee's right about room size - heard some 9-footers in small rooms that are completely overbearing.

Openwood

I forbid you to buy a digital piano because they have no 'soul' and they're CRRRRAP.

That's the thing, isn't it; with the best will in the world, when the chips are down they're just a bit crap.

Openwood

suffer massive depreciation when you want to change for the Yamaha after all when you find it's not robust enough. You need a big Yam or a Steinway. Nothing else will do. I think Openwood could tell you a story or two because he's been there. Been there, bought shares in the T-Shirt factory. When m...

Openwood

Jeff Shackell's your man. He maintains the piano at my school. He's the complete dog's. No question.

Openwood

To be fair, he really needs to take over Russell Brand's slot on Radio 2 with immediate effect.

Openwood

There, Openwood, that was quite restrained, wasn't it?

Very commendable, Gill

Did you write that after a medicinal Friday evening G&T?! Might be worth keeping some aside for Piano Guy

Openwood

My piano was an ebay bargain.

Openwood is boarding up the windows and hiding under the sofa in anticipation of the response to that assertion

Openwood

Imagine if you guys restored it between you - that would be an amazing project.

Openwood

Good on ya! Personally I think it should be the UK Piano Page mascot!

Openwood

Hey, this is cool - just noticed the piano lounge! Bloody good idea.

Openwood

just have to bite the bullet (and my wife)

I had a girlfriend once who was into that sort of thing - you're much better off with a piano.

Openwood

I played a Yamaha S6 in Chappells over the summer and it was, without any shadow of a doubt, the finest piano I have ever played. If I could afford an S6 or a Steinway B I would have to reach a decision based on the individual instruments available to me; I'm sorry to say this but I don't think anyo...

Openwood

Go for the upright-unless you live in a concert hall. I'm so hardcore I sold my upright, got a C3 grand, and shoe-horned it into the middle of a tiny sitting room, getting rid of all other furniture in the process. So what if everyone now has to squeeze into the kitchen and there's nowhere for them...

Openwood

You know, I AM actually daft enough to put a bid in. Trouble is, I'd need somewhere to store it until I could afford the restoration costs and, as I'm based on this flippin' rock in the English Channel, that's more money than I have at my disposal right now. It would be wonderful to see it brought b...

Openwood

can it be saved Dunno, but I love how they see the fact that it comes with all three of its legs as a selling point. There's something so heart-wrenching about seeing it in that condition and in those surroundings; I'm almost tempted to buy it just to give it a hug and a roof over its head in its t...

Openwood

Very interesting Joseph, look forward to hearing the finished CD!

Me too! Keep us posted.

Openwood

Having said that, I know several good teachers who have Yamaha C2s or equivalent 'just under 6ft' grands and I have to say that they sound pretty good.

Openwood

Yeah, it's a no brainer. Get a really good upright.

Openwood

Full-width meaning a THREE-seater

No WAY!! The engines cannae take n'more, captain...

Openwood

Was it your love of chiildren which made you go into teaching, Openwood?

Yeah, can't you tell

Anyway, it's half term so technically I'm off duty

Openwood

they sold the most beautiful CFIIIS Concert grand, only 5 years old, hardly played, for £15K

Openwood is weeping whilst repeatedly banging his head on the table.

Openwood

In the advert, the concerned mother sprayed the Dettol all over the keys to kill the germs

I'd advise her to spray her nasty, germ-ridden child with the dettol (preferably using the hose from a fire engine), and then keep the filthy little urchin away from the piano altogether.

Openwood

which has a brand new Yamaha S6, and would I mind playing on a Yamaha rather than a Steinway?!

You lucky lucky sod.

Openwood

and may be subconsciously exaggerating the problem in others he's seen

Ja, Herr Doktor, ze answer iz buried deeeep wizin ze struggle between ze ego und ze id.

Sorry

Openwood

Oh.. and Chappells (no longer) of Bond Street.

Openwood pauses and sighs longingly at the memory of the beautiful Yamaha S6 he tried in Chappells of No Longer Bond Street during the Easter break.

Sigh......

Openwood

Just for the record, I didn't write "nothing against Markson's."

Not that I DO actually have anything against Markson's.

How confusing!

Openwood

At first I was annoyed at myself at having missed these two supplements, but in hindsight it sounds like what I missed was more akin to the things you aim to miss when walking along the pavement I don't think it was that bad. The musical exercises and pieces were fine. As a way of getting people ba...

Openwood

And another thing...

Many of the pianos in the photos were Yamahas but there was hardly any mention of how to get one. Bit weird. Or maybe not. Who knows? Search me.

Openwood

Yeah, strange that Petrof, out of all the various makes available should be picked out as decent pianos.

Openwood

Just about to nip out buy Part 2. Part 1 was pretty good; the exercises and musical examples seemed well chosen. The main challenge was getting my hands on the piano supplement without being seen in public holding a copy of The Guardian. Fortunately I remembered there was a supermarket 'Bag for Life...

Openwood

Shocking piece of Chinese junk. (See what I did there?)

If you can come up with cutting-edge satire of this quality at 05:03am you must be able to kill a cow at a hundred paces using just your bare wit by lunchtime

Even so, get some sleep, man!

Openwood

And mine has ivory and ebony keys, not those weird things on the C7.

Yeah, those odd-shaped black keys are not at all appealling, visually or practically. I wonder if it's possible to get them replaced with conventional ones?

I LOVE these old Bluthner concert grands

Amen to that.

Openwood

you all want to buy YAMAHA. The sheep mentality means that nobody wants to try anything different That's one way of looking at it but I don't think it tells the whole story. My little woolly teacher friends and I have tried various different makes of piano (particularly Kemble, as we wanted to supp...

Openwood

Maybe Noddy didn't pay for his Model D on time.

Openwood

in the USA, European anythings (cars, stereos, fashion items, pianos etc) have a cachet over and above domestic and 'Asian' goods which are almost too familiar.

He does seem to have a dim view of Yamaha in particular.

Openwood

I have a slight mistrust of a nation who voted in a warmongering prat for a second term and bought Kimball spinets by the thousand. I heard they're about to send out billions of spinets from the central reserve in a desperate attempt to shore up the economy. Can't see how sub-prime keyboards are go...

Openwood

Just got back from hearing Piotr Anderszewski playing a Steinway D about 5 foot away from where I was sitting. Technically I have died and gone to heaven.

Openwood

The Kemble Conservatoire I play regularly also has a disappointingly muffled tone and lacks any richness. In the past I played others that had a similar 'cotton wool' sound and I began to think they were all like that, BUT then I tried one in Chappells and it was fab - completely different sound wor...

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