Buying a keyboard or Piano -here’s some help deciding
For those who’re considering which instrument they should buy, but dont know the differences bewteen a grand piano and a keyboard, heres a list of pros and cons- starting with the keyboard.
The piano. There are 3 main types of paino. grands, uprights, and electric pianos. Grand pianos range from 2m-3m for parlor grands, to 1m-2m for the boudoir grand to smaller sized baby pianos. Which makes size the first problem with owning a piano. Got a manson and a big steaming pile of money? Get a grand piano, otherwise it really is out of reach for most of us. An advantage of the huge size is the equally as huge sound. With lower harmonics and frequencies, the grand piano has its praises sung due to its size, which allows for longer strings that contrbiute to the monsterous sound. A baby grand will have shorter strings inside, but thicker strings to gain back some of the sound lost in size (kind of like a bass guitar). The thicker strings on a smaller instrument give it more tension so the sound clarity remains.
The upright piano, known as the vertical piano has the frame and the strings contained horizontally within the piano, giving it a smaller size. Even at the reduced size its still a size that requires a bit of room for it.
Around since the early 1980’s, the electronic piano uses digital techonology to try and reproduce the sound of an acoustic piano. For all the wonders of modern technology, it cant replicate the sound of an acoustic piano. Not prefered by ’serious’ players.
And the triats of a digital keyboard?
Keyboards can be carried around, take us less room and you get more of a range to choose from for your money- good so far? The sound quality of a keyboard is no-where near as good as a piano, but then both are different ‘animals’ -People forget about the pedals the piano has, that the keyboard doesnt. Money-wise the keybaord is far cheaper, a high grade keyboard costing about the same as a low grade grand piano.
The answer- if you have the money and room, go for the piano, otherwise go for a top end keyboard- why’ll not as great sounding as the piano, you can still get a good sounding one and be content.