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Thanks Joseph for your reply. I paid just under £30 including postage for a Traditional Wittner, black matt wood with a bell marked as 'excellent condition', so I think it was a good buy.

Thanks - can't wait to make some good noises with the piano and my children are excited too!

Hello dave! Nice to make contact with you again! How's the old tinkling going your end? It's too late - I bought a traditional 'nome'! on ebay this evening for a good price. It is a Wittner, the same colour wood as my new old piano, it has all the words eg adagio and presto ect on it with relevant n...

Our piano arrives tomorrow!!!!YIPPEEEEEEEEEEEEE! and I am really looking forward to relearning to play. I am also going to introduce my children to the basics of piano before getting a proper teacher and I am going to use the Pauline Hall's Tunes for Ten Fingers which my children keep looking at and...

You guys are really tops! Thanks so much - I have a little more courage for when my repairer does the tuning now!

Incidentally, I meant why people dislike Bechstein 10's NOT my children!

Incidentally, can one replace individual strings or do they all need doing at once - you think you can see why I ask this question!

Thank you Barrie and PianoGuy for your expert advice and I am glad to say my repairer said the strings and wrest pins looked in good order and he had not raised the other points you mentioned so I assume they would not be an issue in this case. Vernon, thanks for your concern - Thanks to previous ad...

Hello everyone. I just bought a Bechstein 10 and it was in good condition according to my tuner repairer. He is cleaning it up and 'doing the action' with felts hammers etc. Strings are clean and he suggests we tune to 1/2 a semitone below concert pitch and bring it up to pitch later - he thinks, th...

Overstrung underdamper, I also believe, is the ideal but straight strung pianos, if a good make like John Broadwood (or my Bechstein which is straight strung), can still sound lovely and sometimes better than cheaper/lesser known overstrung models. It is the underdamper which I understand is the mos...

Hello! Do listen to Gill - she is right. The piano advice I got from many people included John Broadwood as the maker of often a very good sought after piano. I listened to her and Celestite and they advised me well. With extreme patience and searching, I am now the proud owner of a Bechstein 10 - t...

Hi!
I'm relearning the piano after 30 years away and remember that ACEG are the notes in the spaces - All Cows Eat Grass, and for the lines GBDFA -Great Big Dogs Fart Alot!
I wonder if this might help?

I wonder if you know, and if it is possible to compare, what the difference in sound and quality is?

Does anyone know which strings Bechstein use?

Thank you for any advice.

Thank you!

Hello - does anyone know what strings would be best for restringing a Bechstein model 10?

Many thanks.

Hello, everyone! Thank you all for your valued opinions, suggestions and concern, I feel I've made some wonderful new friends. I had thought about buying a digital piano and went to the local music shop to try them out. I decided that really I would need to spend at least 800 pounds and over for a d...

:!: Hi Dave and Celestite Piano hunting is limited to waiting for something local to me to turn up on this site for sale or ebay at the moment - I placed a wanted ad here but I expect most people will laugh at my budget! I just want to make sure I can afford the delivery after purchase. Please don't...

Yes I did know that you, Celestite, are a beautiful crystal which encourages creativity and inner peace and it is believed that one of your strengths is in stabilising the voice or throat 'Chakra' dave brum - you came up with an exciting suggestion - but, (here's me getting it wrong again as usual)....

Trust me to get the wrong end of the (eyes closed whilst) painting stick!(no apologies for the pun) :lol: :lol: :lol: This one is priceless and I too have taken several minutes to recompose myself, I haven't laughed so much in ages. But you know, now I just can't help looking forward to the summer b...

Hello everyone! :D My whole family loved Rachmaninov Had Big Hands and my son was positively hooting! I have today been introduced to You Tube and will be spending a bit of time exploring it further. So many wonderful ideas and suggestions I am delighted - I will definitely try the painting to music...

Hi, dave brum These are also a great suggestions and I will endeavour to get hold of these ELP and YES albums/tracks to listen to. I have to confess my children don't get much exposure to Trash FM as we tend to only play my cds over and over, which is a limited collection, so my son hums Smoke on th...

Celestite Thank you so much for that, it is something I've tried immediately - my children, boy nearly 7 and daughter 3 ate their cereal this morning listening to Radio 3! I used to learn to play the piano but our cheap piano was so heavy keyed for my little fingers I was always relieved to play my ...

Hello everyone, I would like to introduce my children to beautiful and moving (not too heavy) piano music but I have no idea what cds to buy or where to start. I am a blank page, so to speak, as to classical piano music and musicians/composers, although occasionally hear things in films etc and thin...