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When is a piano practical?
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Usually I wouldn't even imagine spending so much money on something, but my grandparents gave me some money a while ago and asked me to save it for something special, not to blow it on rent or bills or going out, but to buy one big thing that I really want and it would be their gift to me. I haven't touched the money except to use it as an emergency overdraft, taking some money out of it whenever I know I have money coming in but debts due before that date (although I am about £200 down though at the moment unfortunately, I used it to pay the deposit on something - I didn't get that deposit back - but hopefully I can get some more work in the summer and pay back into it then). It's not exactly the spirit in which it was intended to be used, and I feel bad about that. I was happy to just let it accrue interest payments for a while, but the interest rate is so low here that it would be completely unnoticeable for years.
When I lived with my parents we had a really beautiful piano (a Steinway model K my mum was left by her grandma - she was a silent film pianist) that I would play when nobody was in the house so they didn't have to hear me fumbling around as I tried to learn it. I really miss having a piano around. I have a beaten up old keyboard that I took back to my flat a few months ago that I've been playing with, and because I'm home alone a lot I've been playing it all the time and I've improved quite a lot, although middle C and the G above it are broken which has been driving me mad as it's not the largest keyboard so it really limits what I can (attempt to) play. It has made me start to look at a digital piano like an Arius or a Clavinova and I think that is something I would like to spend the money on, but it seems like it would be really impractical. I live in a very small flat in London. My lease is up in 6 months, and though I'd like to stay beyond that I don't know whether I'll be able to. I don't drive and I'm always reliant on family and friends to help me move from place to place, which they're very good about, but adding a piano into the mix seems pretty rude! So far I have always tried to only have as much things as I can fit into a car (with a few exceptions - guitars are small enough to stay with a friend, for example, and I can take the train back to my parents with an amps, keyboards etc to make sure I'll be able to fit everything in to that car before I move) because I have moved around the city a lot. For people that own these sort of pianos - are they easy to disassemble transport? If they don't take up much more room than a keyboard when flat packed it might be possible. I am fairly sure that I am still not at a point in my life where owning a piano of any sort is practical, but I can't see a point in the future where it would become any more feasible.
When I lived with my parents we had a really beautiful piano (a Steinway model K my mum was left by her grandma - she was a silent film pianist) that I would play when nobody was in the house so they didn't have to hear me fumbling around as I tried to learn it. I really miss having a piano around. I have a beaten up old keyboard that I took back to my flat a few months ago that I've been playing with, and because I'm home alone a lot I've been playing it all the time and I've improved quite a lot, although middle C and the G above it are broken which has been driving me mad as it's not the largest keyboard so it really limits what I can (attempt to) play. It has made me start to look at a digital piano like an Arius or a Clavinova and I think that is something I would like to spend the money on, but it seems like it would be really impractical. I live in a very small flat in London. My lease is up in 6 months, and though I'd like to stay beyond that I don't know whether I'll be able to. I don't drive and I'm always reliant on family and friends to help me move from place to place, which they're very good about, but adding a piano into the mix seems pretty rude! So far I have always tried to only have as much things as I can fit into a car (with a few exceptions - guitars are small enough to stay with a friend, for example, and I can take the train back to my parents with an amps, keyboards etc to make sure I'll be able to fit everything in to that car before I move) because I have moved around the city a lot. For people that own these sort of pianos - are they easy to disassemble transport? If they don't take up much more room than a keyboard when flat packed it might be possible. I am fairly sure that I am still not at a point in my life where owning a piano of any sort is practical, but I can't see a point in the future where it would become any more feasible.
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no lie I actually liked the feel of my kx88 weighted keyboard better then my 1902 K52 full upright Steinway.
When I had to move my last upright it was about 400$ across town, my last grand was 1100$ including tune and setup.
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