Subbed for sure!! Thank you! I’m just not sure what to e correct fingering is.? I’ll try and figure it out. As I’m just now playing for about 1 month. Everything is still a little confusing
Thank you for your support Brendon. Really appreciate that. It's for you and other supporting viewers I'm able to allocate time and resources to create more videos.
Interesting exercises. Thank you. As a warm up or when testing a new piano I usually play a few pieces such as Burgmuller’s Arabesque, Bach’s Preludes BWV 939 and 846, Bach’s Musette in D Major and perhaps Tchaikovsky’s The Sick Doll (sometimes also Eric Satie’s Gymnopedie No 1). Could you please tell me why digital pianos usually have action that is heavier than acoustic pianos action that often needs only 50g (or even 47g) to move C4. My Yamaha P-515 needs almost 85g, PHA-4 action - 64g and Nord Piano 5 - 60g. I would also like to ask you if you have a problem with slightly sharp edges of white keys on Nord Piano 5 (it is an issue for me when I play big (more than an octave span) chords. Thank you, Michael
Thank you, Michael. I'm glad you liked the video. In terms of action heaviness, my thinking is that it is much easier to balance a key for a real piano as you have the entire hammer mechanism present to design the seesaw with. If you ever balanced a gimbal for your camera when taking videos, the same concept applies. The challenge for stage pianos is that you have to balance the longer part - once that's visible while the shorter one has no hammer mechanism, it actually needs to activate the carbon contacts on the circuit board. In some of the stores, Kawai will have a sample of the action where you can take look at in a transparent box. The better the action, the deeper the piano, then it becomes heavier and difficult to clasify it as stage piano. I'm good with Nord Piano 5, except for the key edge/corners which are sharp compared with even Nord piano 3. Hope that helps.
@@grandpianord Thank you, Stan. There is unfortunately no portable digital piano (including stage pianos) that I will be completely happy with. Kawai digital pianos have either very noisy plastic action or (CA series) the action that is very bouncy (keys oscillating when coming to the rest position). I really do not like bigger digital pianos, including Yamaha Clavinove. I do not want to have lots of Watts (I prefer to use headphones when practicing) and heavy furniture that I pay a lot for. My P-515 is good - I like the action but it is a bit too heavy for me (my fingers are becoming a bit sensitive). I cannot understand why Nord would not pay more attention to roundness of white key edges (being so expensive). Another thing that I do not like about Piano 5 is that it does not USB Digital Audio Interface.
@@mfurman I can empathise with you, Michael. The Nord Grand has the same weight throughout the entire keybed while the NP 5 does graded weight - the higher, the light the key, the lower (towards bass) the heavier. I'm interested in what would Nord Grand next version look like in terms of keybed.
Subbed for sure!! Thank you! I’m just not sure what to e correct fingering is.? I’ll try and figure it out. As I’m just now playing for about 1 month. Everything is still a little confusing
Thank you for your support Brendon. Really appreciate that. It's for you and other supporting viewers I'm able to allocate time and resources to create more videos.
@@grandpianord your videos are very helpful! Can’t wait to start practicing more
Interesting exercises. Thank you. As a warm up or when testing a new piano I usually play a few pieces such as Burgmuller’s Arabesque, Bach’s Preludes BWV 939 and 846, Bach’s Musette in D Major and perhaps Tchaikovsky’s The Sick Doll (sometimes also Eric Satie’s Gymnopedie No 1).
Could you please tell me why digital pianos usually have action that is heavier than acoustic pianos action that often needs only 50g (or even 47g) to move C4. My Yamaha P-515 needs almost 85g, PHA-4 action - 64g and Nord Piano 5 - 60g.
I would also like to ask you if you have a problem with slightly sharp edges of white keys on Nord Piano 5 (it is an issue for me when I play big (more than an octave span) chords.
Thank you,
Michael
Thank you, Michael. I'm glad you liked the video.
In terms of action heaviness, my thinking is that it is much easier to balance a key for a real piano as you have the entire hammer mechanism present to design the seesaw with. If you ever balanced a gimbal for your camera when taking videos, the same concept applies. The challenge for stage pianos is that you have to balance the longer part - once that's visible while the shorter one has no hammer mechanism, it actually needs to activate the carbon contacts on the circuit board. In some of the stores, Kawai will have a sample of the action where you can take look at in a transparent box. The better the action, the deeper the piano, then it becomes heavier and difficult to clasify it as stage piano. I'm good with Nord Piano 5, except for the key edge/corners which are sharp compared with even Nord piano 3.
Hope that helps.
@@grandpianord Thank you, Stan. There is unfortunately no portable digital piano (including stage pianos) that I will be completely happy with. Kawai digital pianos have either very noisy plastic action or (CA series) the action that is very bouncy (keys oscillating when coming to the rest position). I really do not like bigger digital pianos, including Yamaha Clavinove. I do not want to have lots of Watts (I prefer to use headphones when practicing) and heavy furniture that I pay a lot for. My P-515 is good - I like the action but it is a bit too heavy for me (my fingers are becoming a bit sensitive).
I cannot understand why Nord would not pay more attention to roundness of white key edges (being so expensive).
Another thing that I do not like about Piano 5 is that it does not USB Digital Audio Interface.
@@mfurman I can empathise with you, Michael. The Nord Grand has the same weight throughout the entire keybed while the NP 5 does graded weight - the higher, the light the key, the lower (towards bass) the heavier.
I'm interested in what would Nord Grand next version look like in terms of keybed.