4 types of Piano: advantages and disadvantages, characteristics

Piano is considered common tool, the game in which train in every music school. Piano - the name of the keyboard group. Pianos - species.

Piano for beginners

For beginners, it is best to approach the piano. He begin to teach their children. The piano soundboard, strings and mechanics have a vertical layout, which is the main difference from the piano.

Benefits:

• compact in size due to the vertical arrangement of strings;
  relatively inexpensive.
• It allows the student to feel the music, to extract a "live" sound (as opposed to synthesizers), to understand how to change the sound depending on how hard you play the key.

Strings, mechanics and deck have a horizontal layout. Wing-shaped housing. Usually it has three pedals.

Types of pianos in size and expressive sound:

• Big concert. It is used for the execution of works in large halls, to play in ensembles and symphony orchestra in the studio recording. Length ranges in the range 270 - 305 cm.
• The small concert. He performed works in secondary rooms. He also intended to play in ensembles and studio recording. Length of 230-260 cm.
• Cabin. Designed to perform in concerts and for amateur performance in the music room, living rooms, small rooms for training. Length of 200-225 cm.
• Armchair. Designed for amateur music-making, teaching. Length of 180-200 cm.
• Small desk. Typically used by beginners. Length 160 - 180 cm.
• Miniature. Mini version (140-155 cm), as demand for small-sized tools is great. Designed also for interior decoration and various auxiliary character functions. It has the best acoustic and sound quality. But it can be installed in the apartment.

Royal - a live version of a more presentable appearance. Equipped with a dual mechanism of rehearsal (carcass), which helps the musician to achieve expressiveness, virtuosity in the game and maximum comfort.

Unlike the piano, which usually has two pedals, it has three pedals:

• using the damper pedal is held sound, even if the keys have been released. It creates a sense of a coherent game. Yet because of this pedal creates the effect of the fort.
• using the left pedal sound is quieter (piano). Hammers closer to the strings and thereby hit softer. But the left pedal also changes the tone of the game. This creates interesting nuances in the sound.
• using the middle pedal is held the sound of some keys, which allows you to get the effect of "Depleted keyboard." This makes the sound bright and colorful.

It has a sophisticated device and polished case. You need to treat it very carefully: carefully transported constantly to look after, it requires regular maintenance, adjustment, adjustment of keyboard-hammer action, replacement of worn parts, etc.

The causes of defects and faults outside work:

1. Sloppy transportation and drift into the room;
2. Severe dryness or humidity in the room where there is a grand piano;
3. Adversely affect the high temperature, causing rassyhaetsya tree.
4. Rough handling him during repair or adjustment;

Piano for Adults

Preferences of adults in choosing a musical instrument are divided into 2 types: acoustic or electronic.

Electronic device models similar: the same 88-key, and the keyboard has the same Hammer Action. When the game is difficult to notice the difference, as a full-fledged keys. electronic sound is not much inferior to the classic.

Qualitative models of electronic virtually identical in sound to the acoustics, and sometimes even better than the digital models. Feature of digital: the key sound is recorded with professional level tools rather than artificially synthesized.

Despite this, teachers colleges and music schools, conservatories are skeptical about this kind of piano, assuming it to be an equivalent replacement. Many musicians do not recognize the sound of electronic models, considering them to be deprived of their identity.

Types of digital pianos:

Compact.
Armchair. Larger in size and dimensions, they do not need adjustment, they have a powerful sound system. They are used for professional training of musicians and teaching. Successfully replace the acoustic instrument.

Benefits:

• Save space. Electronic much slimmer that will solve a lot of problems with accommodation in your apartment.
• E model is not set up.
• It can easily be moved from place to place, with no transport problems.
• With installed recorder can record and listen to the sound without additional resources.
• Synchronization with PC. If the musician is interested in sound recording, the electronic piano will become an indispensable assistant for him, because this model is equipped with a MIDI-input. You can record on a separate track, edit, add arrangement.

This can be done even at home, if you are lucky enough to own a sound card.

• Built-in metronome to help develop a sense of rhythm.
• Digital piano connected to external amplifiers - columns, stereo systems, professional audio monitors.
• Work for electronic pianos can be in the headphones, allowing no one to disturb.
• Adjusting keyboard stiffness.

Acoustic Piano The problem is that if you have purchased a tool with a rigid (unsatisfactory physical sensations) keyboard, the fix is ​​not possible.

The electronic piano keyboard you will find the stiffness adjustment function that helps to easily solve this problem. In the manufacture of the digital piano uses samples of sounds of acoustic piano top class.

• Price. Digital is many times cheaper than acoustic.

Piano for children

It fits the same option as for beginners - acoustics. With his children begin learning to play an instrument at a music school. It trains the ear perfectly, develops aesthetic taste.

Subsequently, little musicians go to the piano.

Each tool regardless of the type consists of four blocks:

• The acoustic unit. He is responsible for the sound quality. These include iron frame on which are fixed strings, deck themselves Sturno, which reflects the sound of the strings and gives the necessary strength and power.
• pedal mechanism. Shock-rocker mechanism, which consists of a keyboard and mechanics. This is a set consisting of the levers and mechanisms responsible for ensuring that the key hits the musician sounded right.
• The most massive part - housing. It protects against dust, dirt, mechanical damage, etc.

To save the instrument:

Make sure that he is not standing at the damp walls, damp room. Or conversely, in the furnace, in areas with very dry air. This will help prevent swelling and cracks of wood.

Invite a tuner at least once a year and a half. Timely adjustment will help to avoid the appearance of defects in the piano.

Wipe off the dust from the tools with a soft dry cloth structure.

The keys are a little wipe with a damp cloth. Do not let water get into the interstices of keys.

When finish playing the instrument, close the lid.

If the purchase of an acoustic instrument is too costly for the family budget, you can begin training on the electronic. After playing for a bit, it will be possible to finally decide whether the child to continue learning. If he likes it, later moving to an acoustic version.

In electronic pianos have undeniable advantages: it does not need to set up, it takes up little space. In this case, the sound as close as possible to the classics.

acoustic Piano

Despite the advantages of digital models, the only acoustic musical instruments worked famous composers of all time. They are used in a concert performance. By an acoustic piano, and include piano, and piano.

Benefits:

Sound quality. He is expressive, melodious, charming, melodic. Masters distinguish each instrument on its specific sound. The sound quality is highly dependent on the nature of the touch keys. This helps the aspiring musician to comprehend the secrets of creating works of genius.

KeyboardWhich is necessarily more difficult than digital. In the digital simulation of the hammer mechanism is not fully complete. The man in charge of the digital piano will not feel until the end of the extraction enjoy "live" sound. He did not understand how to change the touch to get the right sound to it. But it is a necessary skill to master the game.

The choice of for the virtuoso is not necessary - it will select an acoustic. For professional best two. Digital Piano is useful for rough work, to work in the headphones when not get to play without them. Acoustic indispensable to extract expressive sounds, to write works.