A silly photo from a while back. That is my old 1970 Yamaha G2, which has since been replaced with a 2007 C2. The new one looks virtually the same except for the fact that it has a satin finish, which, as I've mentioned before, seems to show more fingerprints. The extra brown piano bench has since been given to a friend of mine with a walnut Kawai. Anyway, "Max" is still around, and still likes the perceived protection of his piano cave!

HeartKeys

Thank you!

At the moment, no. For at least the next two years I’ll be here. I’ve got some grants to do art here and have some fellowships and residencies I’ve applied for, so, my little cramped concrete jungle space will be the place for next few years lol.

That said, in a year or two I may be moving to a different space in the building, so ideally, I won’t be as surrounded by neighbors, and may be able to look into an acoustic.

    a month later

    My rebuilt Steinway C finally arrived from PianoCraft in Maryland. Sounds amazing! Looks pretty great too! It’ll need time to settle in but so far I am very happy with it!


    1890 Steinway C (Piano Craft), 2019 Grotrian 208 Charis, Kawai Novus NV10S
    Southern California

      Very nice! PianoCraft does amazing work. How would you compare and contrast the touch and tone compared to your Grotrian and your prior C. Bechstein? Please share a recording if you can.

      18 days later

      Beautiful pianos everyone, and so lovely to see! I could post a picture of my upright of course, or share the thread on the sub forum. ( My New Piano in PW) I am not sure if that is allowed, hopefully both forums agree. I think we all want peace on both forums. Tre

      You can post your pictures here 😃 It's very easy (just click the mountain icon and upload your images).

      Edit: I just realized there are two icons that look similar. I mean this one.

      It's probably easier to just upload your photos than link to another forum 🙂

      It's SOOOOOOOOOOOOO much easier to post pictures here than some other forums ...

      Enthusiastic but mediocre amateur.

      I probably need to try this another day. This App I encountered has these "suggestions" - so I will my pictures soon. Thanks so much for your help. It's nice to know it's easier than PW! Tre

      This picture of the piano was taken in the Carl Sauter Piano factory in Spaichingen, Southern Germany in March 2023. There were two Sauter Competence pianos in the factory, but this is the one we loved. We spent two days visiting the factory making our choice. The unchosen piano was sent to a dealer in Chicago. They were both lovely, very similar for hand made instruments. Ours sounded (perhaps) richer more resonant to us, the other Competence was slightly more mellow. This is the nicest picture we have I think. Tall uprights are difficult to take a picture of. This room was larger than my piano room so easier to take a snap of the piano.

        Thank you Gombessa and Sophia for your help in posting a picture. I cannot get over how much easier it is to take a picture.

        Direct imgur.com integration is just fantastic. It not only allows embedding, I also find Imgur is less aggressive with compression, keeps image links live for years (much longer than imgbb, photobucket and others) and automatically scrubs your images of metadata (so name, GPS, device, etc. are wiped).

        What a gorgeous piano 😊 Don't think I'm not jealous 😁
        Cant wait to hear you play it!

        Thanks Sophia and rogerch
        Sophia I am rather shy about posting my playing.

          Hi

          At the moment I own 2 digital instruments, a Casio PX S3000, which I use as my practise instrument for everything and a Korg SV2S (73 note) which I use for gigs.

          I'm in the middle of moving house at present, and when that's done I'm intending to get my first acoustic (upright) Piano. I'll post a picture of that, hopefully later this year.

          Cheers


          Simon
          All round average Jazz, Blues & Rock player.
          Currently working towards ABRSM grade 8.

          Sadly, I haven't had much time to practice all summer. But apparently I do have time to do a bunch of miscellaneous stuff...

          One of the ideas I've been toying around with is getting a little more light on the keys for late night or early morning playing. But I don't have a lot of space behind the piano, and I don't want to have anything sitting on the instrument. As you can see, it's pretty much right up against the wall.

          So you know...this seems like the perfect test case for a wall-mounted LED strip.

          In fact, it's already installed in the image above!

          This isn't super bright, and I wouldn't use it to illuminate sheets (I have a backlit tablet so that's OK), but it does a really good job casting diffuse, shadowless light onto the keyboard/fingers at night. In fact, I don't even run it at 100% brightness when it's dark.

          But of course, as Benjamin Franklin once said, if something is worth doing, it's worth doing to an extreme that causes your spouse to roll their eyes and walk out of the room without another word. Which is what happens if you use a 5m-long strip rather than the 1-2ft needed for the actual job:

          I call that one the Mace Windu. And of course, you can do weirder stuff, too, if you opt for addressable RGBW segments rather than just single-color:

          Now if you'll excuse me, I have to find out what's taking up so much of my day that my practice is suffering!