I have seen your "Journey inside the piano" tutorials and I congratulate you because they were very interesting...
I would like to know if, in addition to rapid repeated notes, the grand piano is superior to the upright piano also in the possibility of greater keyboard precision, in the possibility of more precisely calibrating the force required to play a note.
I am a beginner and I have an upright practice piano: to play a note I must overcome the resistance of the key and I feel limited in my expressive capacity. I cannot, as I would like, dose the piano and the forte...
Is it me who does not yet have sufficient experience, or are there inherent limits to the upright piano that would not exist in grand pianos?
These are limits that, according to my experience, depend, in order:
1) on how high the piano is and how long the key is
2) on how the action was placed (at the factory)
3) on the regulation/preparation of the action
4) on the pianist's abilities
For the same reasons, what was said above regarding length applies to the grand piano: to achieve significant performance, one should consider grands from 1.80 meters and up.
In other words, a tall upright could work better and give more satisfaction than a short grand.
I would add the quality of the instrument as an important characteristic.
It seems to me that apart from rapidly repeated notes, there would be no other general limits to "expressive capacity" (the ability to dose piano and forte) between an upright piano and a grand piano.
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nancy
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Reply 4 by nancy
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Hi gigi,
Giovanni has already said everything....
This means that one cannot make an absolute comparison and say which grand piano has greater expressive possibilities than any upright...
A potentially more expressive upright could exist compared to a grand, just as the feeling between pianist and piano is of significant relevance.
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HansElzinga
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Reply 5 by HansElzinga
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You could try other upright pianos to understand well if the difficulty of dosing piano and forte depends on the regulation of your piano. If regulated well, perhaps there will be fewer problems.
