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The latest acquisition, a Yamaha DGX-650W





And our Steinway Model O

Let us know how you get on with the 650 . . I have the 630 and love it . .it`s bound to be a bit better!

Can I ask how I can get photos to post? I used to be able to use my Flickr account but it no longer works. I know how to put the URL in the Full Reply Screen>Insert a non-floating image , it's just every URL I put in there, from Flickr, Box.com, or Google+ doesn't actually post an image, it just makes a link.

I envy some of those large rooms. Oh for some TARDIS technology.

I was having trouble the other day. I was posting the wrong link. Easiest is to go to an upload site like photobucket, or imgur, that offers a copy/paste link to the uploaded photograph; one where a) there are [img] ... [/img] tags around it, and b) where the link ends in .jpg (or .png, etc.)

Let's give this a shot.

Here's my current setup in FL:




Looks like it worked, thanks, jdeacon!

Having never heard a 630 I can't tell. I've just uploaded a sample to the dpbsd site, so hopefully you'll get a bit of an answer to your question from that.

As far as I can see from specifications, the 650 has 128 poly compared to 64 on the 630, and uses Pure CF sound engine and has 4 levels of touch response.

The 650 has more voices etc. It has damper resonance, but I'm not sure if the 630 already had that or not.

For fun for beginners like me, there is smart chords a 1 finger chording.

The tweeters are a bit larger on the 650.

Otherwise, they lok remarkably similar.

Geesh.... That's a whole lot of piano in that room. Must be a 7 footer?
I would imagine, in Fla. You have a good setup of dehumidifiers?

Wow. Love your music room. You own my dream piano. Enjoy!

By the way, there's a funny story behind the Steinway. I'd been looking for one for a while and went to a local store and put my name down on a list in case one came in. A few days later I got a call saying that this one had just come out of the factory after a complete restoration. It's serial number is 175439. If you look it up you will see it was made in 1916, when Steinways had much more hand craft.

I went in, tried it and bought it in a few minutes. Turned out, they had screwed up. Instead of looking at their list in chronological order, they looked at it in alphabetical. They were quite embarrassed, and so was I. But I'd already paid for it and had it moved to my house before I knew!

Beautiful, Afzal! I love that you placed that dark gray shag rug underneath the piano to give the space texture. Even the piano lamp and metronome blend in well. ;-)

Thanks. I still have too much reverberation though. The room is completely open as you can see from the original photos. Next step is to get some curtains up and dampen things down a bit

That is really nice, Afzal...
Very stylish too.
congratulations...

I say go for light gray curtains. :-))

Hmm. Interesting idea. My general theme on that floor is shades of white/gray so that can work!

Thanks!

You must be grateful to your family for your name in that case!

9'2

The room actually opens out into my office and a hallway, so it's not too loud in the space. No dehumidifiers, but it does have the Dammp-Chaser heating bar (or two of them I think) and the whole house air conditioning works to keep the humidity down.

jdeacon, I love the room, even if you had to stretch it out a bit to make it seem bigger

I love all the instruments, but of course, my favorite is the piano

We have the same thought -- shades of white/gray. That's why I thought light gray (silverish-gray) curtains would work. :-)

Stunning piano! I wish mine was that long!! Love the gold and black Grecian urn theme in the room. :-)