Piano Lessons - Expensive Antique Piano Is Not a Benefit

Piano Lessons - Expensive Antique Piano Is Not a Benefit

It's time to bust a common myth about piano lessons. The myth is that having a very expensive piano, particularly an antique, is a good thing. Why I'm saying this is that most people who are taking piano lessons are considered "piano students." Students need an instrument that is easy to play on, meaning the key action has to be easy for them to use and the instrument itself is not a physical encumbrance.

For years I'd heard things like, "It's good to have an instrument (piano, guitar, flute) that has heavy action because it develops the students finger strength and will make them a better player." I'd heard so many people say this that I'd always assumed it was true.

It's completely FALSE.

I taught two girls whose mother owned a $15,000 antique baby grand. It was about one hundred years old and the mother loved this instrument, not because of how it played (it actually didn't sound good) but because of how it looked in her living room. It was gorgeous. It was an absolutely wonderful... piece of furniture.

It had almost no value as an instrument. It was not a functional instrument and was completely inappropriate for students who were still trying to learn piano. It was too hard to play on. I sat down to play it, with my twenty-five years experience and it was impossible to get it to sound good. They key action was awful, it had keys that didn't work, it was out-of-tune and it couldn't be properly tuned without substantial repairs and reinforcement. That kind of piano does not benefit a student, no matter what the price tag on it was.

The most important thing to know if you already own a piano is make sure it's in really great working order and that it's easy to play before expecting a student, particularly a child, to be able to achieve results on it. If you really want to buy a multi-thousand dollar antique piano, first find out how it plays. Have a professional player in your area come in and play it. If you can find a teach how specializes in working with the age group of your student who can come do a play-test on it for you, all the better.

If you spend thousands of dollars on an instrument that a child is doing battle with, it's not going to benefit them. They won't learn. They will struggle, resist practicing and give up in six months because it's too hard to play.

If you have questions about this, please do contact me at http://anaheimpiano.com and I will be happy to answer you. Student players learn under very different conditions depending on their age and body size, so buying the right instrument, or knowing how to make a piano you already own a great instrument for a kid player can make all the difference between a life-time of joy at the piano, or a frustrated kid who hates to practice.

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