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You two are just being silly and infantile. If you cannot reply to a post in a reasonably adult fashion then why bother to post at all. Closing one's eyes is a well known musical phenomenon to the professional amongst us but as you old guys are just "hackers" you wouldn't know a piano stoo...

Hi I am a grade 8 pianist and I have both an acoustic baby grand piano(Yamaha) and a Roland digital piano. The Roland digital piano plays almost like an acoustic upright and sounds surprisingly similar. However it does not come anywhere near the touch/feel of my acoustic baby grand. You wouldn't exp...

To a certain extent I agree with PianoFifty. However I cannot really see a problem with learning a notated score by sightreading firstly, then memorising sections and then re-playing the score from memory. This is the only way, IMO, that any expressive feeling, dare I say passion, can be put into a ...

You can use Cakewalk with a Windows laptop. I use it and it is fantastic, it notates as you play and will print out the finished score. It will read midi files and notate them also. e.g if you have say "fur elise" recorded as a midi it will play the score and print the score. About a tenth...

Hi I have both a Roland digital piano and a Bentley Compact acoustic piano(aka a real piano). As far as digital pianos go the Roland is far superior in sound quality, and authenticity (in reproducing an acoustic grand piano sound) to any of the Yamaha digital pianos I have played in the past (includ...

Hi I studied piano to grade 8 and of course sight reading a piece of music is a fundamental and necessary skill. Afterall, how are you going to learn a new piano score if you cannot read the music to start with. (Unless you have an exceptional "ear" and can "imitate" the performa...