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Hello All, I had a Rönisch acoustic piano, and now I want to change to a digital one. I 'd like to have similar sound like acoustic and the similar keyboard touch and sustain. I 'd like it under 2000 euro, what's your suggestion? Thanks for your help
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You need to be down the corridor in the digital pianos section. This is for acoustics.
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And of course, if there's anything to save, why would you go digital?
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You can try a Yamaha digital piano.
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Why would you want to switch to a digital? What was wrong with your Ronisch?
The Digital Piano Forum guys could give you better advice on which digital piano to buy. For example, I doodled on a Yamaha AvantGrand about a year ago for a few minutes. It sounded and felt fine, but it costs quite a bit more than 2,000 Euros.
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Do you have a retail company there that sells digital keyboards? Here in the U.S. there's a big one called Guitar Center. One thing you should definitely do is go to such a store and try several of them in and around your price range.
The great thing about digital is that you can use headphones with it, and play dreary drills at any hour without irritating anybody else. I recommend having both digital and acoustic.
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Guitar Center may very well be cooked. They're about out of cash and suffocating under the bond interest accruing. here's the article by someone who is paid to analyze business financials though he does seem to have an axe to grind about the big box/venture capital business model. http://www.ericgarland.co/2015/02/03/end-guitar-center/Kurt
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Guitar Center may very well be cooked. They're about out of cash and suffocating under the bond interest accruing. here's the article by someone who is paid to analyze business financials though he does seem to have an axe to grind about the big box/venture capital business model. http://www.ericgarland.co/2015/02/03/end-guitar-center/Kurt 1. So, if you want to buy something at Guitar Center, make damn sure you walk out the door with it that same day. 2. Save up your cash, and watch the auction ads in your newspaper.
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That's an amazing article!
Will do some R&B for a while. Give the classical a break. You can spend the rest of your life looking for music on a sheet of paper. You'll never find it, because it just ain't there. - Me Myself
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Guitar Center may very well be cooked. They're about out of cash and suffocating under the bond interest accruing. here's the article by someone who is paid to analyze business financials though he does seem to have an axe to grind about the big box/venture capital business model. http://www.ericgarland.co/2015/02/03/end-guitar-center/Kurt This was a really fascinating read. The thing is, there aren't any major competitors to GC. There aren't any reliably-stocked stores on a national level that sell pro gear. The business of selling musical instruments may very well return to local shops with a more specialized focus. This is great for people on the Coasts, who live in major centers arts of culture. But for the college kid in South Dakota that wants a decent digital piano, they are going to have to order it from Sweetwater and really, really hope they like how the action feels.
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Guitar Center may very well be cooked. They're about out of cash and suffocating under the bond interest accruing. here's the article by someone who is paid to analyze business financials though he does seem to have an axe to grind about the big box/venture capital business model. http://www.ericgarland.co/2015/02/03/end-guitar-center/Kurt I have no love for Guitar Center stores or most of the people who frequent them, and it is possible that the chain is in financial trouble. I would not, however, reach the latter conclusion on the basis of this bloggers views. I'm not at all convinced he is the finance guru he thinks he is. He sounds more like someone who got into academic trouble in the second year of an undergraduate business program at a school that wasn't quite Harvard. I could be wrong, of course.
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I would not, however, reach the latter conclusion on the basis of this bloggers views. I'm not at all convinced he is the finance guru he thinks he is. He sounds more like someone who got into academic trouble in the second year of an undergraduate business program at a school that wasn't quite Harvard.
I could be wrong, of course.
You're right. Garland is conjecturing that GC is going out of business based on his reading of their financial situation. There is no corroboration anywhere that GC is actually closing its doors.
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Last year I read after Bain Capital took them private (Mitt Romney's old company) they had plans of expanding, opening 15-20 stores per year and each of the new stores having studios for instruction and recording. I think this was the article: http://fortune.com/2014/08/07/guitar-center-expansion/
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