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Interesting comments. DJtoast: I've got all upright models on the floor at the moment, and obviously have my own views, but would welcome your feedback, (and PG's). It would be interesting to know why you chose the 125 over the 121 or 132. Any particular reason - tone, touch, dynamic range, price, ...

Again, you're not far away from a Brodmann BU121, but I'd give the BU125 a wide berth. what makes you say that? i played the whole range of uprights when i bought mine (except the 128 which was absent from the store) which at that time meant 116, 121, 123 (not the new veneered version, a black one)...

(I could've had a baby in that time, you know) i always assumed you were a guy! :shock: i'm finding that the celeste rail on my piano doesn't make it quite quiet enough to play at 5am as i'd hoped... i really like the piano though so i'm considering getting a silent system put in rather than changi...

I wouldn't worry too much about trying to save space by avoiding "large" upright pianos - they don't vary that much in width or depth and the height issue is probably not relevant unless you live on that 7½th floor from Being John Malkovich (although as mentioned, the taller the piano the ...

Some Japanese market G3s had optional celeste sytems operated by a stop under the keyboard. I've never heard of that on a grand piano - I bought an upright earlier in the year mostly on the basis that I often need a celeste rail so as not to disturb people, but i figured that ruled out grands entir...

Barrie Heaton wrote: it maybe just a Terminology problem as in
we say set off and the Yanks say let off

"let off" means something else where I live

I tried a few pianos in Peter Smith in Paisley - for ages I was 90% decided on a U3, and they always a have a few in - and the guy was indeed very helpful and they have a huge selection of new and used pianos. But I ended up buying a Brodmann from the newish Glasgow store McLarens though - he had al...

The whole human existance is geared around our natural world. We hear sounds best at frequencies that are the most common to us in our world - between 30Hz and 16kHz. We are all geared to hearing resonances in wood, be it hearing a woodpecker beating up a local tree trunk or death watch beetle wrec...