Many people think that when buying a piano, they only look at the appearance and whether there are any bumps. As for the piano's performance, timbre, volume, and keyboard feel, you don't have to worry about it yourself. In the future, you can leave it to the tuning attorney to make any changes. In fact, this is a misunderstanding. It is difficult to make specific and unified regulations on the piano's timbre, volume, and touch among the various technical indicators of piano production, especially after the piano leaves the factory. Many tuning lawyers have encountered such users when tuning pianos. They say the piano doesn't sound good. The tuning lawyers carefully tuned every part of the piano, and all technical indicators fully met the standards. But users still find the piano’s tone too boring. In fact, this is called tone inconsistency. There are also some users who ask professionals to help them buy pianos, but over the years, the pianos gradually become ugly. After several years of research, experts have discovered that the user's personality is closely related to the piano's timbre.
In fact, it is easy to choose a good piano, but it is impossible to choose two pianos with exactly the same tone, volume, and feel. There is no fixed format for each indicator of a piano, so everyone must choose a piano that suits them according to their own personality and hobbies. Generally speaking, extroverted users tend to prefer pianos with brighter tones; if you are an introvert, you tend to prefer pianos with softer tones. Every time a piano picker helps select a piano, he or she must try to meet the user. Through communication with users, understand their personalities and then choose a piano; or play the same music on different pianos with the same intensity and ask the user which one is better. Also disassemble the piano, check whether the parts inside are installed and debugged correctly, and use a tuning wrench to check the tightness of the chords. If a piano becomes loose when it is new, it will be difficult to maintain intonation after a few years, and the user will then have to bear the cost of unnecessary shaft replacement. The most important thing is that the piano's tone must be uniform. The tone of the piano, whether bright or soft, must be relatively uniform. Otherwise, when the music comes out, it will sound uncomfortable.
When choosing a piano, it is best to choose a piano with a louder volume, because the louder the sound, the better the vibration performance of the soundboard and the better the materials used.
The touch of the piano is also very important, which may affect whether the user can successfully master the correct playing method in the process of learning the piano. The intensity of the keyboard should not be too light, because this is not conducive to fully exercising the playing of the fingers, and may even make the fingers stand up like playing an electronic keyboard, resulting in insufficient graininess and unclear notes when playing quickly. On the other hand, using too much force on the keyboard will also cause your fingers to run on the keyboard, affecting your playing speed. Young piano players have very thin fingers, and practicing on an overweight keyboard is more likely to cause finger fractures. In short, choosing a piano that you are satisfied with is a complicated matter that needs to be treated with caution and must not be rushed.
The vast majority of consumers will first consider famous brand pianos when buying pianos without knowing much about the piano market, because famous brand pianos mean reliable quality, good stability, and the best value for money among the same level and grade. , High market price transparency, or choose a brand that has been heard a lot, because consumers who do not know the piano brand will think that the brand they have heard a lot about is a good brand. At present, piano dealers on the market all claim that the pianos they sell are "famous brands", "world famous brands", "German famous brands", "domestic famous brands", etc. Anyone with a little bit of brain will realize that it is impossible for all pianos to be famous brands. After all, there are few famous pianos. Decades of foreign piano sales markets have proven that from the initial dozens or even hundreds of piano brands, there are now only a few piano brands left, and the same is true in the Chinese market. Which pianos are truly famous brands?
A famous piano must meet at least the following conditions:
A long production history
Pianos are composed of more than 9,000 parts and are the height of equipment, materials and production processes. Organic combination. The production process is very complicated, the technical requirements are high, and the material selection is strict. It is not as simple as producing a good piano on an advanced production line. Objectively, there is a long-term process of accumulation and adjustment of production technology.
A long production history means that the production process is more mature and stable, and the quality of the products produced is more reliable.
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Secondly, the production scale is relatively large and it has a high market share among pianos of the same grade.
The high market share means that its pianos have gone through long-term and fierce market competition, their quality has passed the strict test of the market, and their reliability and stability have won the trust of consumers.
Third, market pricing is reasonable and price transparency is relatively high.
Famous pianos have large production scale, large sales volume, and standardized market management, so the prices of pianos are often relatively uniform, reasonable, and stable, and there are no huge profits or outrageous price fluctuations at the end of the crisis.
Consumers should also note that brand-name pianos are also divided into grades, and brand-name pianos of different grades and grades are not comparable. For example, Pearl River Piano is a relatively good brand-name piano among popular pianos, but it cannot be compared with higher-level famous pianos such as Bernstein, Steinway, and Bolansler from Germany.
The common pianos currently on the domestic market that meet the requirements of famous brand pianos are:
The world’s top pianos: Brassler Bruttner (Germany) Burchstein C. Beckstein (Germany) Steinway & Sons (USA) Bosendorfer (Austria) Fazioli (Italy) Seiler (Germany) Petrof (Czech Republic) European brands have a production history of more than 150 years, and their quality is relatively more guaranteed .
Mid-range and popular brand pianos: Yamaha (Hamamatsu, Japan, Indonesia, Xiaoshan, China), Kawei (Yichang, China, Japan), Zhujiang (Guangzhou, China), Sanyi (South Korea, Indonesia), Xinghai ( Beijing, China), Zhujiang and Xinghai all have a production history of more than 50 years, among which Zhujiang is the largest piano manufacturer in China.
(Please refer to the World Piano Quality Ranking.)
The above analysis is for reference only. I wish you a satisfactory piano! ! !
Note: There are many brands in China’s piano market. When buying a piano, try to avoid recommendations from piano teachers. Teachers know how to teach students well, but they don’t know much about the quality of piano brands. Some parents who buy pianos do not understand the quality of the piano. Therefore, some poor piano teachers take advantage of this weakness and recommend parents to buy an off-brand piano and tell them how good the sound is (and state that they will never buy the brand you recommend for their own use). To put it bluntly, they are actually colluding with the piano store in order to get thousands or even tens of thousands of kickbacks.
The Chinese piano forum is quite popular at present. The registered forums are all piano manufacturers or agents of their own brands to answer questions raised by consumers. Most of the time, the brands they are advised to represent disparage their non-represented brands. Some piano brands have even joined forum moderators for online promotion and false commercial hype. Please be vigilant and avoid being misled! Buying a piano is risky, so be careful when buying a piano! ! ! Don’t be blindly influenced by products of the same brand as pianos. Learn more about the history of the piano brand and the material selection, workmanship, and craftsmanship of the internal movement to ensure that you can buy a high-quality brand piano at a reasonable price!