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Well this is the other end of the spectrum from what most of you have posted but I guess it can be an inspiration for others on a budget. My "Piano Room" is actually a storage room in our house. My Keyboard is a Yamaha YPT-220 that I got for $70 at a pawn shop, the stool I got at a yard sale for $6, and the stand was the least expensive one I could find at the music store for $35. All told I probably have less than $175 into this. But for now it works!
Yamaha YPT-220: $70 Keyboard Stand: $35 Piano Bench: $6 The music and personal satisfaction and inspiration that comes out of this setup: Priceless! 
Yamaha C2X | Yamaha M500-F
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Curriculum: Faber Developing Artist (Book 3)
Current: German Dance in D Major (Haydn) (OF); Melody (Schumann) (OF)
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Well this is the other end of the spectrum from what most of you have posted but I guess it can be an inspiration for others on a budget. My "Piano Room" is actually a storage room in our house. My Keyboard is a Yamaha YPT-220 that I got for $70 at a pawn shop, the stool I got at a yard sale for $6, and the stand was the least expensive one I could find at the music store for $35. All told I probably have less than $175 into this. But for now it works! ![[Linked Image]](http://i1179.photobucket.com/albums/x384/Finfan11/DSCN0392.jpg) OK, how do you get the actual image to show up instead of a link? [* Moderator note: for a linked image to show it needs to be wrapped in img html constructions *and* have an extension that is a graphical file e.g., jpg, png, etc *] Some of the best musicians and artists the world has known started like this . . Have fun!
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Some of the best musicians and artists the world has known started like this . . Have fun!
Amen Peter. Some musicians continue to amaze on rather humble instruments. I see this all the time working at a keyboard repair shop in a major metropolitan area. All musical endeavour is rewarding and has value but some people seem to emit music as easily as the rest of us breathe and that comes out no matter what they play. There's this one woman who plays jazzy gospel on a manky first generation Clavia that just makes our jaws drop. In another instance this essentially homeless (lives in an RV) guy brings in a Yamaha PSR series and tells us how important it is to him. It's missing plastic and the battery cover is held with gaffers tape. We normally discourage people putting money into these but he insists while we explain that we'll require a deposit to start work. He says he understands and can we wait a few weeks till he get's some money. Eventually he pays the deposit and we make the easy repair (bad adaptor jack). We wait a few more weeks for the balance and he comes in and looks like someone picking up his puppy after a dicey surgery. He wants to check it which is always fine and he busts out these blues that could make you cry. He just keeps playing and playing for an honest 10 minutes or so. Then he comes back to this planet and looks at us with an intensely personal gaze and says, "I used to have a family." After a bit of a pause he added, "This thing is my best friend." I've got a best mate from Carlisle. Are you as northern as that? It's a part of the world I'm desperate to visit but things (and money) have been in the way. One day though and then maybe on to the baltic. Kurt
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KurtZ . . .An hour up the motorway and I`m in Carlisle. It`s a pleasant city, AND they get regular steam trains running the main line. It`s all good . . .  but bloody cold! and prone to Scottish border raids . . .
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Well this is the other end of the spectrum from what most of you have posted but I guess it can be an inspiration for others on a budget. My "Piano Room" is actually a storage room in our house. My Keyboard is a Yamaha YPT-220 that I got for $70 at a pawn shop, the stool I got at a yard sale for $6, and the stand was the least expensive one I could find at the music store for $35. All told I probably have less than $175 into this. But for now it works! OK, how do you get the actual image to show up instead of a link? [* Moderator note: for a linked image to show it needs to be wrapped in img html constructions *and* have an extension that is a graphical file e.g., jpg, png, etc *] How much you spent isn't what matters! It's what you are prepared to put into it. Very best wishes.
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. . .and prone to Scottish border raids . . .  Cathy
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Border raids?
Is that when you nip across for some Auchentoshan or Glenkinchie?
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. . .and prone to Scottish border raids . . . Cathy only when the sasanachs need it....got to be kept on their toes
Surprisingly easy, barely an inconvenience. Kawai K8 & Kawai Novus NV10 13x ![[Linked Image]](https://www.pianoworld.com/forum/gallery/42/thumbs/7728.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](https://www.pianoworld.com/forum/gallery/42/thumbs/5225.png)
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My "Piano Room" is actually a storage room in our house. My Keyboard is a Yamaha YPT-220 that I got for $70 at a pawn shop, the stool I got at a yard sale for $6, and the stand was the least expensive one I could find at the music store for $35. All told I probably have less than $175 into this. But for now it works! ] Good to know that not every piano room pic in this thread comes straight out of a movie Otherwise, all the pictures in this thread seem to have been taken from a movie, lol. So perfectly flawless and spacious.
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Yamaha 155, Yamaha Motif Rack XS(with mLan), Roland Fantom XR, Alesis Vi61, Behringer UMC404HD, Yamaha HS7, Cubase 7.5.4
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Border raids?
Is that when you nip across for some Auchentoshan or Glenkinchie?
Kurt Well, no actually. Me and `Er nip across to this pub at lunchtime. They do good chips . . . .not many places do good chips. True!
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Moonsh1ne, that piano must be a very good excuse to practice like crazy, it's just lovely. I for one have been practicing more since I got my piano's hammers back, it's a huge motivation. Here's my Wally in case somebody forgot how he looks  ![[Linked Image]](http://file.sinophilia.org/IMG_0876.JPG)
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Moonsh1ne, that piano must be a very good excuse to practice like crazy, it's just lovely.
My wife is jealous that I spend more time w/ the piano than with her. I'm trying to instill the practice regimen into my son via personal example, but I don't think it's working.
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Need keyboard stand ASAP He he, I know, been looking around for one.
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Here's out little Steingraeber over Christmas. ![[Linked Image]](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8721/16386458733_68756f2272_z.jpg) I'm also trying to find a picture of our Bosendorfer Imperial that I took a long time ago! I'm at the airport waiting for a flight and trying to find the old picture on my photobucket but you all know how bad airport internet is
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Here's our Bosie 290. I'm sure I have much better pictures of the set up somewhere in my old computer! I'll have to dig those up when I get home. ![[Linked Image]](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8700/16386579323_8b30a8fa93_z.jpg)
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And finally, since I'm a grad student right now and living in the 3rd floor of a townhouse, I just bought an N1 and managed to stuff it into my room where my stage keyboard used to be! O_O Quite an accomplishment getting it up all 30 steps of stairs on the part of the movers. ![[Linked Image]](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7636/16819293260_f86fd2d644_z.jpg)
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Yamaha 155, Yamaha Motif Rack XS(with mLan), Roland Fantom XR, Alesis Vi61, Behringer UMC404HD, Yamaha HS7, Cubase 7.5.4
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The Bosendorfer looks very intimidating . . . Now, of all those pianos . . which gets played the most?
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That Bosendorfer!! My yaw 's dropping..
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