Piano Question - Music Banter Music Banter

Go Back   Music Banter > Artists Corner > Talk Instruments
Register Blogging Today's Posts
Welcome to Music Banter Forum! Make sure to register - it's free and very quick! You have to register before you can post and participate in our discussions with over 70,000 other registered members. After you create your free account, you will be able to customize many options, you will have the full access to over 1,100,000 posts.

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 05-30-2013, 02:04 PM   #1 (permalink)
Groupie
 
Join Date: Sep 2012
Posts: 24
Question Piano Question

I'm kinda of a piano amateur, i've been playing for a couple of years and I'm kind of good with the piano, not excellent, just good.

The case is that my grandparents want to make me a special and expensive gift for my birthday, and I choose a Korg Sp170 which is pretty expensive.

The deal is: Do you recommend me asking for this gift? Piano is a good instrument to go all the way deep with it? It is flexible enough to spend every day playing it at least an hour?

Thank you guys.
RollingChopper is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-30-2013, 09:02 PM   #2 (permalink)
killedmyraindog
 
TheBig3's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Posts: 11,172
Default

Depends on what you plan to do with it. If your current piano/keyboard works for what you do with it, I wouldn't upgrade just for something nicer.
__________________
I've moved to a new address
TheBig3 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-31-2013, 01:34 AM   #3 (permalink)
Music Addict
 
anathematized_one's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2013
Location: Someplace Awful
Posts: 123
Default

I agree. Some of those high end Korg models, as excellent as they are, have a ton of extra features and sounds that the average player not only will have no use for, but also will probably never use. If they really want to get you an expensive gift, I would get something that would be worth them paying for.
__________________
Sardonicus
YouTube Channel
anathematized_one is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-11-2013, 07:32 PM   #4 (permalink)
Music Addict
 
anathematized_one's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2013
Location: Someplace Awful
Posts: 123
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by evilmesin View Post
Its a good idea because who is addicted to music can play the piano the whole day and night without having any rest.
Thar makes 0 sense. Some people can not even play a single instrument. An amateur/hobby pianist is questioning getting an expensive gift that another is determined to give him. No matter how addicted, it would be a waste of the gift givers money to purchase an expensive gift that may not get used to its fullest.

It is far more practical to get a an expensive gift that has a good chance of not being a waste and only worrying with a high end keyboard only if it will be used to its fullest.

Example: purchasing aa Korg Triton would be a waste if they only used the piano sound and no others even if they were a pro.

For some people, the piano is that deep flexible instrument that can be played all night. For me, that instrument is the violin or guitar or harp.

The only way to know is to play an instrument to see if that would be the the one that you could play through the night. Just find a decent piano and play around to see if it is flexible to you. No amount of effects or features will change that. A piano with a violin patch still plays like a piano, not a violin and has the same limits a piano would.


Sent from my SCH-S720C using Tapatalk 2
__________________
Sardonicus
YouTube Channel

Last edited by anathematized_one; 07-11-2013 at 07:39 PM.
anathematized_one is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply


Similar Threads



© 2003-2024 Advameg, Inc.