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I’m very excited to say that for my birthday (from my dear parental unit), I am getting a PROPER piano stand for my Yamaha P-70 Electronic Piano. It’s been ordered, but I haven’t gotten it just yet. Right now, I just have one of those “X” stands that prop up the keyboard, mostly used for concerts and stuff because it’s portable and you can heighten it if you’re standing.

Anyways, it’s hard to use while I’m sitting, because my knees can’t go under it very well with the “X” legs getting in the way. A proper stand is definitely in order. Not to mention, I finally got a proper damper pedal as well. This is what I was using before:

Damper Pedal I Use Now

Now, I have a proper damper pedal. The Yamaha FC4.

Yamaha FC4

I thought I get could all three pedals into one built-in unit, but I guess I can’t. No big deal, since the damper pedal is really the only one I really use. I used to use the soft pedal on rare occasions when I was studying for conservatory exams.

Now, a bit off topic, but I am so excited to share this with you. Last year, I bought these AMAZING Canadian mukluks, wore them all winter, and now I’ve gone back for more. As an extremely special birthday gift to myself, today I ordered two more pairs. I am now out by $700 in my bank account. (Yes, they are THAT expensive.)

The ones I bought last year are called the Banff Mukluk.

The Banff Mukluk

Today, I ordered the Rimrock Mukluk…

The Rimrock Mukluk

And the Chocolate Mukluk.

The Chocolate Mukluk

How exciting! I swear I’m not usually this crazy about footwear, but these are the most amazing, beautiful, and COMFORTABLE (they feel like slippers) things you could ever put on your feet. They’re also waterproof and keep your feet warm (duh). The fact that I get to wear these are the only reason I am kind of anticipating winter.

Elise’s Musical Tip For The Day:

Your birthday is a great excuse to upgrade on the music equipment. Tell your friends and family that you want new stuff! It definitely worked for me…

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Believe it or not, but choosing the right kind of piano can be a difficult decision for many people, mostly because they don’t know where to start. The first two things you should decide is the cost you’re willing to pay, as well as the room to store your piano.

Can you afford a fifty-thousand dollar grand piano? If you can, great. Do you have a relatively large room to put that piano? If you do, fantastic. And if you’re ready to commit to seriously learning to play the piano, then a beautiful and expensive grand piano may be the right choice for you.

Unfortunately, most people don’t have the luxuries of unlimited money and space for their new piano. This is why electronic pianos are a great alternative.

Fist of all, electronic pianos come in all different sizes, from very, very small, which you can just place on your lap and store away for later, or very large, generally the size of a regular acoustic spinet or console piano. I own a very large electronic piano, and it fits perfectly on one side of the wall in my room. There’s no way that my acoustic console would fit.

Secondly, if your budget is quite low, electronic pianos offer you the chance to set your price limit. There are hundreds of different brands out there with many different qualities and features, so price can vary significantly depending on what you’re looking for.

Another great thing about electronic pianos? They are the pianos of the 21^st century. They integrate MIDI implementation, meaning that you can transfer music and information between other computers or other electronic pianos for recording and storage purposes. They also have different key settings that you can set to sound like a marching band, a symphony of string instruments, an organ, and so on.

Something I just recently figured out was setting the different tones of keys on the keyboard. For example, if I want to play the higher sound notes that usually appear on the upper right side of the piano, I can set it up so that Middle C is one or two octaves lower than it normally is, and when I play in the middle of the piano, the tone is quite high because I set it up that way. Interesting, eh?

Another great feature that electronic pianos include is the fact that they embrace headphone output. Before I had my electronic piano, I had to bang away at my acoustic piano for everyone in my entire house to hear. Now I can just stick my headphones in my electronic piano and play with the privacy I usually need.

And a final advantage electronic pianos have over acoustic pianos… they don’t need to be tuned! Getting a piano tuner can be expensive, and if you put off tuning your piano regularly, your piano tuner will tell you that he or she will need to come back on several visits to get the piano sounding just right.

The acoustic vertical console we have in the living room has this problem. The keys are very heavy, they stick, the pedals are heavy, and the sound of the strings is quite off. Now that I have my electronic piano with all of its convenient features, I virtually never touch my acoustic piano anymore. I would if it was tuned well and properly taken care of.

Elise’s Musical Tip For The Day:

I own a Yamaha P70 electronic piano. Yamaha is, in my opinion, the best brand you could choose to buy your electronic piano from. The sound that comes out of mine is constructed to sound like a grand piano and the keys are also meant to have the feeling of a grand piano, which they do. I have played on a grand piano many times during past recitals and notice that my electronic piano keys and the grand piano keys feel virtually the same. Click here if you’re interested in the Yamaha P70.

Yamaha P-70 Electronic Piano

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