Spinet Piano
Spinet Piano
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Is there a big difference in sound between spinet, console, studio and professional sized upright pianos?
I would like to get a professional size because I have read that is best, but there is a console that looks like a good deal and within my budget (about a 30 year old Kawai for less than $1000)
The piano I am looking at is in good condition btw
Well, sure there is.
With pianos, size matters. Bigger sound board = bigger speaker.
Longer strings vibrate more freely, giving greater amplitude to the overtones, and therefore to tone and clarity. And they sing longer.
Even the best spinets sound like wash tubs in the low register -- and their actions are a real study in wasted motion. Avoid them.
Consoles and larger uprights use a direct blow action, so they are much more responsive and easier to control.
Now about your piano. Have you opened it up and inspected the action? Many Kawai vertical pianos use plastic action parts. The whippen, the backcheck, and the jack are made of plastic, while the shank is made of maple. The shank is basically a dowel rod that the hammer is mounted on. Its other end is glued into the whippen -- so you have wood and plastic joined together -- a recipe for havoc over time. I won't take a Kawai vertical in for trade if it is more than 15 years old, unless it has an all-wood action. Since the wood swells and shrinks more than the plastic does with changes in humidity, that joint (and there are 88 of them) is the weakest part of the assembly -- very poor design feature, IMHO. Kawai is the ONLY piano made that way.
Otherwise Kawai make a pretty good instrument.
Good luck!
(have an independent piano tuner/technician check out any used piano you are considering -- it's money well spent!)
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