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None yet, though Ive owned 4 keyboards

1. Kawai upright, age 4-17
2. Wurlitzer upright, age 24-26
3. Baldwin 5'8" R1, age 29-34
4. Kawai RX5 6'6", age 34-present.

Three

One horrible awful PSO - a Beckwith 5'5" from about 1915. This brand was sold by Sears Roebuck.
A 1981 Kawai 41" console. Pretty but wimpy.
1969 M&H 5'8" Model A

Love the M&H and though it was not rebuilt when I bought it a couple months ago, it's in good shape and I doubt that my talents (word used very lightly) will ever outgrow it. If that day were to come, I think it would be worth putting the money into it.

My parents had a Bechstein 9' that burned up when I was 1YO. (I do remember my oldest brother playing Fur Elise on it).

Chickering 116 grade school to college.

Kimball 5'

Richmond 50" upright

Schumann 5' 9" grand

Kimball 6'7"

Steinway 6'4" A to present

4 acoustics and 1 digital. 1) An old antique upright (can't remember the brand name) with a cracked sound board 2) Baldwin upright that I had for 16 years and traded it in for 3) Yamaha GB1 walnut, which I then traded in for 4) Yamaha C3, that I've had for 2 years now. I bought my Casio Privia 4 years ago for silent practice and simple recording.

Having had 2 corneal transplants - still healing from the 2nd, I'm going to enjoy playing my gorgeous grand while I still have the vision to read music, have enough hand flexibility to play, and enough mental acuity to learn a larger repertoire.

One piano - great grandfather's 1920s Marshall & Rose upright. I'm 34 and I've been 'playing' it ever since I was old enough to randomly mash the keys during visits to my grandparents' house.



I like my cars also, but there's not really an inverse relation. I've had the same 1980s Alfa Romeo 33 for over a decade now. The common theme appears to be that I like characterful rubbish!

I've owned two digital pianos (three, if we count the Casio keyboard with slightly weighted keys which I still have but rarely use), and one grand piano with silent system.

Here's the list. The years are the years in which the instruments were/are in the place where I lived/live.
Korg C-3500 (1989-2002)
Yamaha Clavinova CLP-150 (2002-2012)
Casio Privia PX-100 (since 2005)
Yamaha C2 SG (since 2012)

I've been playing since 1974; and before I got my Korg I usually had access to pianos which I didn't own (like the piano that was at my parent's place).

Three.
A Pfeiffer upright, 135cm, built around 1920, inherited from my grandparents via my parents. The piano was bought at the beginning of the big German inflation of the mid-1920s to transfer some cash into a material value, but then was never sold again. It's still in excellent shape for its age, a wonderful piano by all means. It is now played by my daughter, i.e. in the fourth generation...
After waiting many years, I finally bought a small grand (see my sig).
More recently, another upright was added at moderate cost for practicing at a different place where a friend lives; a good offer for a Kawai K3 tipped the balance.
Not counting various digitals for traveling/playing at night.

When I was a kid (6-8 years old), we had a no-name spinet. It had a particle board case, modern looking, the sort of thing IKEA would sell if there had been IKEA in the late 50's. It went away somehow, I don't remember....

In high school, a friend of the family gave me an old upright. The fallboard said

Bachmann
Oregon, Ill.

I learned a little about tuning and regulation on it. I left it at my parents' house after college, and at some point they wanted the space and gave it away.

In 2010 my mother gave me my late father's 6-4 Knabe, and I started playing again. The pinblock was failing on it, so rather than spend $10K to make a piano worth $7K, I traded up to the 9 ft. Knabe.

I also bought the Kawai and Yamaha digitals for headphone practice, shortly after the Knabe.

Best as I can tell, (not counting my father's and his brothers in the business), about 12,000!

You need to change the thread title to How many acoustic pianos have you owned!

3 in my 20'X20' music room (two grands and an upright); 1 in my living room (upright); and one in my recently constructed piano shop (grand).

I have room for a couple more in my piano shop... but I'm contented with the pianos I have now. Of course, if a great deal comes along on another one, close to home... well, you know.

Rick

One. No other has ever compared.

Henry F Miller upright early 1900s
Brambach baby grand 1918 used
Baldwin Hamilton new- 1966
Baldwin "M" 5'2" baby grand new 1968
Steinway "B" 1917- used 1978
Steinway "B" 1986 - new from M. Steinert & Sons, Boston, MA
Baldwin "F" grand 1954 rebuilt from Piano Mill, Hanover, MA
Steinway "M" grand 1976 used: Harwich Port, MA
Baldwin "D" 1926 rebuilt: Living Pianos, CA *THE best, yet and probably the last*
[ All between 1948 - 2012]

Kawai Digital - 1990's
Kawai CN34 - 2013
Yamaha AvantGrand N1

Upgrading to a Yamaha C2X tomorrow!

Learn from my past mistakes: Pick acoustic over digital (unless you absolutely must be able to play silently), and get the best piano you can afford (and deserve), and THEN go up to the next level

I know someone who cannot resist antique pianos. When I last saw him he had 22!

22 would be nice.

Of course, we only need one (at a time ).

You'd think with 5 acoustic pianos (and a digital) I'd be able to actually play a piano...

Rick

Four total:

Kingsbury upright, 1906
Yamaha U1, brown
Yamaha G3, polished ebony
Yamaha SP-100, polished ebony

For various reasons, I only have the Kingsbury now.

This is an interesting comment. How does one decide what one deserves? In my 40's, when I bought my Kawai KG2D (my first decent piano), I agonized over whether this was a reasonable purchase. I took only 5 years of lessons as a child, but I've always played for my own amusement and even substituted occasionally in very small churches. But I know my talent is certainly limited. Did I "deserve" a grand?

Old age has mellowed me. When I had the chance to upgrade in my 70's, I lost not a bit of sleep over whether or not I "deserved" a better instrument. It gives me pleasure just sitting there in my living room.

3+1 now, I suppose.