I've played piano accordion for 50 plus years, before recently trying to teach myself piano. Your videos are a great source of information on what to look for in both acoustic and digital pianos. Although back in the day, a "cultured" home in the US owned a piano, probably beginning in the mid 1930s, the next big instrument was the accordion! Until the mid 1960s, sales even bypassed guitars. As an interesting aside ( to me anyway), there were once many, many, accordion manufacturers in the US as well. The Queens, NY Wurlitzer piano factory even became a factory dedicated to building accordions! Accordion schools sold accordions with their own name plate over the keyboard. There are only a couple of brands of accordion extant today, with Petosa, in Seattle, building very high end accordions. The few other brands are Italian and German imports, though as in piano manufacturing-- there are Asian brands which were once considered junk, but now provide some quality instruments. Want to spend 15K for a nice accordion? One can. And as in pianos, want to save some money for a quality accordion that aims to sound surprisingly acoustic and can duplicate other instruments? Buy a digital accordion. Keep up the interesting and informative videos guys!
Learned on Minipiano brand. It had gold painted image with crown on it. The keyboard cover looked like a flat top then vertically covering keyboard. It had 2 pedals rather than 3 pedals.
Good stuff, thanks guys! Boy, is this used Piano thing confusing!!! Currently looking at a used Story and Clark from the early 70's. Just trying to do my research. Thanks for the help!
Great video guys, thanks for sharing so much history. As a child in the 1980s I learned piano on an Aeolian pianola. Now you have me wondering if it was one of their subsidiary brands!
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I've played piano accordion for 50 plus years, before recently trying to teach myself piano. Your videos are a great source of information on what to look for in both acoustic and digital pianos.
Although back in the day, a "cultured" home in the US owned a piano, probably beginning in the mid 1930s, the next big instrument was the accordion! Until the mid 1960s, sales even bypassed guitars. As an interesting aside ( to me anyway), there were once many, many, accordion manufacturers in the US as well. The Queens, NY Wurlitzer piano factory even became a factory dedicated to building accordions! Accordion schools sold accordions with their own name plate over the keyboard.
There are only a couple of brands of accordion extant today, with Petosa, in Seattle, building very high end accordions. The few other brands are Italian and German imports, though as in piano manufacturing-- there are Asian brands which were once considered junk, but now provide some quality instruments.
Want to spend 15K for a nice accordion? One can. And as in pianos, want to save some money for a quality accordion that aims to sound surprisingly acoustic and can duplicate other instruments? Buy a digital accordion.
Keep up the interesting and informative videos guys!
hows the piano playing going?
Learned on Minipiano brand. It had gold painted image with crown on it. The keyboard cover looked like a flat top then vertically covering keyboard. It had 2 pedals rather than 3 pedals.
Good stuff, thanks guys! Boy, is this used Piano thing confusing!!! Currently looking at a used Story and Clark from the early 70's. Just trying to do my research. Thanks for the help!
Great video guys, thanks for sharing so much history. As a child in the 1980s I learned piano on an Aeolian pianola. Now you have me wondering if it was one of their subsidiary brands!
Did Sears & Roebuck have piano's too?