If you’re even a moderate internet user, odds are over the last four or five years you’ve probably come across an article or video covering some of the world’s most expensive instruments. Pianos happen to stand out in this regard due to their size, cost to manufacture, and cultural significance throughout much of the world. […]
Piano Moving is supposed to be a boring, predictable, and relatively mundane part of the piano purchasing process, even an afterthought. And in many instances, this is the case. However, if many other instances, if the right questions aren’t asked and the piano movers properly prepped as to the type of space they’re moving the […]
If your child is just starting out with piano lessons, or maybe you’re an adult beginner who wants to try out piano for the first time, investing in an expensive acoustic or digital piano right off the hop is something many folks would prefer to avoid. Perhaps you’ve got more of a casual interest or […]
Considering a taller, new professional upright piano and automatically assuming that the best value mid-range options are the Yamaha U3 and Kawai K-500? Not so fast. As a follow-up to our look at the Eduard Seiler ED-126, which is a direct competitor to the U1 and K-300, today we’re going to be exploring the next […]
With digital pianos being more popular than ever, marketing literature in recent years has really focused on the increased flexibility being able to plug a set of headphones into your piano provides. Many folks purchasing a digital piano for the first time are also buying a set of headphones if they don’t already have one, […]
Few digital pianos manufacturers offer as diverse and as innovative an assortment of digital piano tone engines as Roland. This isn’t too shocking given Roland’s 50-year history of building cutting-edge electronic musical instruments, but it’s nonetheless still impressive to see the quality and standard they’ve been able to maintain for such a long time. Today, […]
When it comes to digital piano keyboard actions, Kawai has consistently been viewed as one of the leaders of the pack, with some of the best actions available in almost every price point and class. We’ve been getting a lot of requests lately to do a deep dive on the entire Kawai digital piano action […]
If you’d like some insight and clarity with regard to the Kawai keyboard actions available in their home and hybrid digital pianos, you’ve come to the right place. This is the second entry in a 2-part series covering Kawai digital piano actions. To read the first entry where we looked at all of Kawai’s actions […]
If you live in North America and you’re looking into a new, good-quality upright piano for the home, it’s virtually guaranteed that the first two brands and models you’ll come across are the Yamaha U1 and Kawai K-300. And for many people, they look no further since these two pianos check enough boxes to make […]
All-in-one portable 88-note digital pianos were once considered a fairly niche instrument, with more traditional stage pianos being far more popular. In the last few years, however, sales volume of portable all-in-one units have skyrocketed, with Roland, Yamaha and Kawai leading the pack. Roland’s flagship model in this category was the FP-90 for the past […]