The $499 piano stinks, for sure. But can you hear the difference between the $50,000 piano and the $2.5 million one?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wxrB41PMhw
BTW, I blew out my ears as an idiot growing up, just like today’s youth is doing as well.
Deaf, dumb, blind, and morbidly obese is the future of mankind. 🙁
Yes, I can.
HOWEVER: the acoustics of the “vault” room are completely different,
so the tone comparison is not really possible.
Personally, I liked the $250,000 Steinway…but I suspect they don’t make a pedal steel guitar, do they?
So much noise in my ears, I have a lot of difficulty hearing conversation much less nuance between pianos. I would expect that the more expensive pianos have better action than the less expensive ones as well.
“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell
If you want to compare the qualities of skin flutes I’m your man!
Well you certainly won’t hear any lose change rattling around in the $2.5 million dollar Steinway (for obvious reasons)! Besides, I prefer thumbtacks on the hammers cuz I like that kind of music… after all, I am White…
Most wind instruments come in 3 general price points: student, intermediate, and professional. In many cases, the difference between intermediate and professional is mostly cosmetic.
Stop this discussion and delete this thread right now. Music is haram. And racist.
DO WHAT THE MOHAMMEDAN SAYS, H8RS!
In a different field, but along similar lines of reasoning, a “famous cigar guy” once asked: “What’s the difference between a $300 humidor and a $1500 humidor?”
Answer: “$1200.”
I don’t know music but I suspect that whomever is sitting at the keyboard has more to do with the sound than the piano – if guitars are any indication.
izlamo delenda est …
Ditto Tim…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3uW31SNHR0
the touch of the master’s hand
The music is “Arabesque” by Claude Debussy, and I’d listen to it played on a kid’s toy piano. Love it. But I loved Beethoven’s Pathetique Sonata played by Rowlf on an episode of The Muppets, so what do I know?
Well, as my old Grandpappy always used to say, “You can tune a piano, but you can’t tuna fish”.
Grandpappy was kinda funny in the head after the war, though…
The 2.5 million one has Liberace’s skidmarks on the bench.
Rays Music Exchange and Ray will throw in the black keys for free.
Interesting. Like wine, I always think I probably can’t tell the difference from a $12 bottle to a $100 bottle+ but if I lined them up and tasted them I’m sure the differences would be more apparent like this up to a point at least.
The $499 sounded different–lower quality but not horrible. The rest all sounded pretty much the same to me.
A cheap piano can be coaxed into making good music by a good musician. But a poor musician cannot make great music even on a $250,000 piano. But combine a great musician and a great piano…WOW!
Years and years ago the comparison was between a $300 stereo and a $3000 dollar one. Without a special acoustic room (and likely with one) the average (or for that matter fairly well educated in stereos) listener couldn’t tell the difference. The more expensive one may have a few more adjustment knobs and the speakers greater power but for the vast majority couldn’t tell.
The $499 piano sounded like the strings were made of tin. All the others were pretty much the same. It was hard for me for all the others to distinguish between them with the longer samples. If he had played just 2 or 3 seconds of the same piece one after the other, I might have been able to pick up some differences if there were any. It was hard when he changed pieces on the same piano then went to the next and started with the first piece.
A “WHITE” piano !!!
Just show us more of your privilege you racists.
The $499 Baldwin hadn’t been tuned in years. The Bechstein was in need of tuning also. I didn’t even make it to the end of the video. Assault on my ears: I’ve been tuning pianos full time since 1988. Steinway is the Bose of pianos. Okay quality but blown far out of proportion by people who don’t know any better. You cannot buy a concert quality Steinway: They only sell to approved concert halls. And then the local technician makes it sound as best he can. I’ll take a Yamaha any day of the week.
Well first off, set the youtube video to 4K quality and then yes, I can tell the difference between each and every one of them.
Don’t shoot me.
Believe me, if you were standing there, you would hear the difference. And there’s the mic and recording equipment. And I’m very skeptical about things like this on the internet.
I liked the $250,000 model D.
I believe the high cost of the 2.5 million piano has more to do with its accoutrements than its sound quality. The last three sounded the same to me.
‘half of taking a good picture is being there’
a friend told me that, years ago. Somewhat similar-Vladimir Horowitz could probably make a casio sound great.
Quality and type of materials used is where the separation is made. Listening to these live would provide a more measurable difference. The vibration of the melody could be felt and not just heard.