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fishtop_records · 18th May 2003

There are amazing keyboards with real piano feel
and wonderful sound. Well, serious classically
trained pianists will say that the feel is not
the same, and the sounds may not match
a 9 foot Steinway, but they sound pretty good
to me.

The best "music" store on the Washington DC area,
Chuck Levin's Washington Music Center no longer
sells pianos with strings. They sell beautiful
wooden cased keyboards with wonderful sampled
sounds, but none with real strings. The guy
there said that the demand for real pianos was
too small for him to carry them. This is a music
store that has a separate building for pianos
and organs.

I'd be tempted to get her a real nice
synth/keyboard/piano, as others have posted,
and if she gets really, really good, buy a stringed
grand, but be prepared for that to cost $10K or more.

18th May 2003	#17
fishtop_records Gear maniac Joined: Jul 2002 Location: Outside Washington DC Posts: 155	There are amazing keyboards with real piano feel and wonderful sound. Well, serious classically trained pianists will say that the feel is not the same, and the sounds may not match a 9 foot Steinway, but they sound pretty good to me. The best "music" store on the Washington DC area, Chuck Levin's Washington Music Center no longer sells pianos with strings. They sell beautiful wooden cased keyboards with wonderful sampled sounds, but none with real strings. The guy there said that the demand for real pianos was too small for him to carry them. This is a music store that has a separate building for pianos and organs. I'd be tempted to get her a real nice synth/keyboard/piano, as others have posted, and if she gets really, really good, buy a stringed grand, but be prepared for that to cost $10K or more. __________________ pat http://www.pfarrell.com/prc