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A. >>> If you are completely NEW in the digital pianoworld

ADDITIONAL IMPORTANT ADVICE AND INFORMATION : -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

1.>>>(topic by Jscomposer) If you're looking to get a digital piano, make sure you read this important topic about Basics, definitions, features and everything you have to know about it!

http://www.pianoworld.com/ubb/ubb/ultimatebb.php?/topic/6/5599.html

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2.>>>(topic by L Horwinkle)

The collected specifications of more than 50 digital piano's assembled into a spreadsheet for easy comparison! (Work in progress)

http://www.pianoworld.com/ubb/ubb/ultimatebb.php?/topic/6/5633.html

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3. >>> (advice by LesCharles73) "Just as a side note to newcomers of the digital piano market, these things evolve and change as often as computers! So a digital piano recommendation from a 2-year-old post may not mean much now!"

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4. >>>(advice by Signa)
"Since acoustic piano's action is weighted, anyone starts learning piano will be better off to go straight to weighted key action. It's totally wasting of time for your kids to get used to non-weight action and later on switch to weighted, because the 2 actions are totally different. if your kids want to play piano, then they should be trained from the start with the piano action, not no-weight keyboard action. The best advice i could give you is to stick to weighted action from the begining, which will be good for developing good piano techniques. besides, any little kid will have enough strength to play on a real piano, and therefore weighted keys are not a problem for kids."

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5.>>>(advice by DragonPianoPlayer)"Another frequently asked question is how do I record my keyboard.

Mahlzeit has written a fantastic guide at the following site: "

http://www.pianoclues.com/how-to-record-piano/

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6.>>>(topic by KBlair)


Digital 'Price Paid' reports:

Topic to report and view price paid for digitals.

http://www.pianoworld.com/ubb/ubb/ultimatebb.php?/topic/6/2405.html

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7.>>>(topic by falconfox, original by bachmaniac)

What does your piano set up look like? Post a PICTURE of your setup!

http://www.pianoworld.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/691417.html#Post691417

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>>> your advice here ..... ?

Nice thought, but unless this thread gets stickied or you refresh it hourly, it will simply get pushed down into oblivion.

In an ideal world there would be a similar message at the top of every forum and it would also appear when you create a new topic. As well in an ideal world there would be an honest to goodness FAQ for each forum, search is nice, but cumbersome and you have to often wade through a significant amount of rind before you get to any fruit.

I know bitWrangler, but i will answer a "smilie" from time to time to bring the message up again ...

Perhaps you and other guys and girls will do this to?

I did email the webmaster of this site about a sticky but didn't get a reply yet.

If everyone agrees that this is an important point, should it be "stickied"? But if it is indeed important, perhaps you should expand on your idea. A novice will not get what you are saying - you have to run them through it. And novices are the most likely to not use the search function first.

There is one problem: Supposing the Search brings out a thread from 3 years ago, and the asker revives it. Everyone will be annoyed that he has revived an old thread.

Perhaps included in the sticky could be FAQ’s, explaining some of the terminology and what to look for when shopping/researching.

I'm glad it's a STICKY now. so no more need to "bump" the message up.

Webmaster thank you for the service !

[QUOTE] " ....Perhaps included in the sticky could be FAQ’s, explaining some of the terminology and what to look for when shopping/researching...." [/QUOTE

All suggestions are welcome, or even better:
post some readymade text here i can merge in the sticky.

DP

Just as a side note to newcomers of the digital piano market, these things evolve and change as often as computers! So a digital piano recommendation from a 2-year-old post may not mean much now!

Thank you LesCharles73, i have added your advice in the topic.

Wow, I just now noticed my advice up there in the topic. I feel all helpful now! :-)

maybe these ideas should form part of the "welcome to you" for newbies a sort of code of conduct and how things are done in this wonderful amalgam of news, views and discussions. Maybe it should form part of a 3 times a year newsletter to all subscribers bringing them up to date with all that is changing. The other way of handling repetitive messages is to use the rss feed and then only look at those postings that have specific interest.

include this thread as well, since no one cares to make it sticky:

http://www.pianoworld.com/ubb/ubb/ultimatebb.php?/topic/6/5599.html

As you see Signa, it's included now.

looks like my picture thread is no longer working. Should i re-create one?

No. I fixed up the formatting of the FAQ and updated it to reflect the new forum layout.

The thread you started seems to have disappeared in the move to the new forum. I created a link to an older thread of DP photos and changed the thread title for that thread. If those of you who've previously posted a picture to falconfox's thread (I think it was only a few pages long) want to use the new thread, it's here

If your thread can be recovered, I'll merge the two together.