Pianists who play rel grand pianos, specially concert pianos, are used to the real thing, the real deal, and real concert pianos are loud. They can't reduce volume to calm any angry fellow in the home or neighbour in the next apartment.
Digital pianos's flexibility to volume tend to create wrong playing, as we reduce volume to avoid annoy, and we end with a unrealistic thing, even worse if we tend to strike keys too hard in a moment we feel the sounds is not powerful enough, but we had just forgot that the volume was low.
Personally, when I played a baby grand, I found the sound not really loud, but more powerfull, able to reach distant places. But it was a piano made with south america wood, pine, and was no match to european spruce.
About the paint finish, it's really like that. Nobody get a "mirror" look with a simple paint and polishing. It's need many layers of varnish and polishing to get the mirror look.
YvesTh wrote:A little experience I'd like to share
This testimonial is aimed at self-taught amateurs who play their digital pianos alone at home, far from concert pianos.
This weekend I had the opportunity to meet a pianist who played on my wooden digital piano... First of all, he validated my choice of velocity curve and the location of the monitors suited him. The thing I noticed was that he played louder than me and used the whole dynamic range (velocity from 0 to 127), I noticed that I was holding back far too much. He also immediately turned up the volume on the piano much louder than I do.
That same weekend I was able to play a grand piano (Boston GP163) and notice the difference in feel, I wasn't too thrown off by the real piano keyboard (a good point for the pha-4 on my piano). Again, the big difference is the very high volume of the real piano. And of course the sound coming out of a 300 kg cabinet is very impressive.
The pianist also gave me a lot of good advice, so it was a very rewarding experience.
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