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Well, I'm buying digital piano with 32-note polyphony only. I want to ask few questions - hope some experienced pianist will know answers :) 1. Is it possible, on 32-note polyphony digital piano, to play good quite complicated compositons, such as Rachmaninov's Prelude "Alla marcia" Op.23 ...

I'm going to buy Clavinova 115 probably. My dealer made me special price, CZK 40 700 ( = 814 pounds). Usually it costs about 5 000 CZK (100 pounds) more in Czech Rep. I tested it and sounds of piano and organ are average, harpsichords are great, and the keyborad has feel very close to normal grand p...

Thank you very much, after much of testing, I'm going to Yamaha CLP-115 probably. I haven't tested Kurweil Mark 1 or 3, which may have excellent keys, but anyway, they are too expensive for me.

Yes, but those two names of mechanics which I wrote above are both by Roland, so I thought that someone could know...

Well, thank you. At my teacher's class, I play Yamaha Clavinova CLP-130, and it has quite simillar feel to real grand piano. But this Yamaha is too expensive for me. Now I going to test Kurzweil Mark one, but I'm not sure, if only 32 note polyphony is enough for me... and for the future.

Does anybody know, what differecne is between Roland "hammer action mechanism" and "weighted hammer action" ? I can test only the first one, pianos with second one are not in store I'm visiting (I'm from Czech Republic, if you'd like to ask for this ,

Jaromir

Hi everybody. These days, I'm choosing digital piano for me. I have grand piano about 100 years old, and I can play it only through afternoons (due to neighbours :), so that's why I am looking for digital piano. I can spend max. 750 pounds for it... and I need only two things: 1. Fingerboard as clos...