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Guess I'll have to tell the wife I need to buy at least two more pianos using this article as justification.

You can never have too many pianos!

Interesting article. Indeed, an interesting blog. I shall read some of the other articles.

I agree, I just found out about the blog.
There are so many interesting articles that this guy wrote.
I just booked mark the link, and plan to read more.

Yes, the big problem is that on a different piano you're doing two things at once: Remembering what you're playing, and adapting to the different muscle movement to music conversion function of the strange instrument.

If you only play one keyboard instrument, you'll be fine on it, and suck on anything else, at least at first. I call this "Single Piano Syndrome". The cure is to get some practice time on a variety of instruments wherever you can find them.

I cannot agree more with John. By playing on many kinds of pianos (good or bad), we are at least emotionally ready if we suddenly need to cope with bad piano. I practice on an Yamaha upright ( a good action, but not like Fazioli or other expensive piano), I never have problem playing on well maintained grand pianos, because they are virtually better than mine. At people houses is different story, because many people do not maintain their piano regularly.

I have 2 pianos, a nice grand and a really cheap spinet. I keep the spinet around for my 3 year old, and I also play it at times. I do practice on both instruments before a recital to help with this.

In his book Piano Playing, Josef Hofmann addressed that very issue in memorising a piece (page 24-25).