Blüthner vs. Upright add-on...

I havn't tried the upright. It is very likely nice to play but why would anyone prefer an upright over a grand (maybe some freaky retro-boogie-woogie pianist)?

For me it was clearly the Bluethner that made my decision to purchase pianoteq at all!

I own both, but if I could keep only one, it would be the Blüthner.

In my opinion, the current version of the Blüthner represents Pianoteq's "masterpiece" in terms of classical music repertoire.  This is not to put down any other Pianoteq pianos -- far from it:  They are all very good to excellent instruments.

With that said, if I were forced to keep only one Pianoteq model, today (and of course my opinion might change in the future), I would personally choose the Blüthner.  I am proud to state that I have completely eliminated every SAMPLED piano library from my computer's four internal 10,000 RPM hard drives (2+ terabyte total storage capacity) for two reasons:  1) to free up hard disk space; and 2) for the past few years, I simply did not have the desire to play the piano via sampled piano libraries -- Pianoteq is THAT good.

Cheers,

Joe

The Upright is just the best Piano I have.
All of their Pianos are nice but the Upright sounds more like a real Piano for my venue.
We record on occasion, our last set, and then compare it to the first set, to see if our ears, chops and tolerance for alchohol are consistant.
Doesn't matter if I use Orang Tree's excellent Rosewood Grand, with Sostenuto believe it or not, and the Steinway D from Modartt, and they just sound "outside" of the band, too pretty and perfect.
The Upright sits in the mix and you can easily close your eyes while listening and envision a real instrument on stage.
I can't explain it any better than that.
And I will never need another Piano.
I have had dozens of Pianos going back to the Jerry Coakley 16MB library for my S760/EMU 5000 samplers.
I have been a whiny beotch about Sostenuto, and sound quality for over 20 years.
PianoTeqs Upright has helped me continue performing for drunks and degenerate gamblers, fine hookers and hustlers, so I owe them for the next decade of paystubs I will make.
As of 1/2013 I decided against retiring.
Modartts Upright had alot to do with that.

Well, this is my first message here, so hello to everyone and thanks to those who persuaded me to go Pianoteq. I didn't take a lot of persuading!

I bought the Blüthner a couple of days ago and am very pleased. I had come to love the sound of the D4 through several projects (arrangements / compositions) but I'm quickly adapting to the Blüthner. As I do all my "playing" through the midi editor at present, it's been quite some fun. (Long ago I played on one of these - not sure what model it was. 4 comes to mind.) I'm sold on Pianoteq; can't think of any reason for sampled pianos....

Thanks for the advice guys, i got the Blüthner and i'm very pleased with it! I especially like it in binaural mode through my headphones, it sounds just awesome.

Might get the upright as well if i have some spare $ in the future