| If I have to choose between buying an | | | | practice silently. A digital piano usually |
| acoustic piano or a digital piano what is the | | | | has a headphone jack so by using headphones |
| best choice? let's take a look at the | | | | you can practise as much as you want without |
| different choices if you want to learn to | | | | disturbing neighbours or family members.3. |
| play piano.Personally I haven't been forced | | | | Midi interface. A digital piano usually has a |
| to make the decision between buying a normal | | | | midi interface which makes it possible to |
| upright piano and a digital piano as I have | | | | connect your piano to a computer and use |
| both in my home. I can see advantages in both | | | | music software like notation programs or a |
| types of pianos when practicing the art of | | | | sequenser program or a software |
| learning to play piano.A normal upright piano | | | | synthesizer.What then are the disadvantages |
| produces sounds with hammers that strikes the | | | | of having a digital piano?1. The sounds in an |
| strings. A digital piano on the other hand | | | | acoustic piano are produced by strings |
| tries to duplicate the feeling of playing an | | | | vibrating and the different pitches interact |
| acoustic piano.Most people are familiar with | | | | in ways that you cannot copy on a digital |
| the normal upright piano but what advantages | | | | piano. The sound quality of the sounds |
| has a digital piano?First let us describe a | | | | produced by digital pianos are becoming |
| digital piano.A digital piano consists of a | | | | better and better but it is still a |
| keyboard with weighted key action, sensors | | | | completely different way of producing |
| that detect the velocity when you play the | | | | sounds.2. A digital piano is limited when it |
| keys and a set of sounds you can choose from. | | | | comes to producing different tone colors by |
| To make it possible to listen to the piano | | | | different ways of playing. An accomplished |
| when you play you have an amplifier and | | | | pianist might feel limited by the sampled |
| loudspeakers and headphone jacks.Here are | | | | sounds.There are many more things to say |
| some advantages with a digital piano:1. A | | | | about choosing a piano but this is a |
| digital piano doesn't need to be tuned. A | | | | beginning.As you can see it is not so easy to |
| normal acoustic piano you should tune once or | | | | decide what's best for you. If you can't |
| twice a year. If you can't tune a piano | | | | decide what type of piano to buy you can do |
| yourself you have to turn to a piano tuner. | | | | as I have done. Have both types of pianos and |
| It can be quite expensive of course. Even a | | | | keep smiling.Peter Edvinsson is a musician, |
| piano tuner has to pay his bills.2. You can | | | | composer and music teacher. |