Do you need a big house to have a piano?

[JonahAndTheSale]

We had a piano when I was growing up.

I enjoyed playing it, got to grade 6 !

Fast forward years and now I've my own dc, I'd like them to have the option of playing, if they wanted to.

Question is, I've no idea where I'd put a piano.

House is smallish 4 beds.

If you have a piano, do you have tonnes of space?!

Thanks

I have a Yamaha electric piano (couldn't afford the Clavinova at the time ), and it's great, both to play and to dump stuff on and around. Post war 3 bed semi here, so it sits in the second reception room (poshly referred to as the study or where Mum fritters away time on MN), but if we didn't have that room, I'd have put in it the hall or living room.

Not at all. We have a piano in our 2 - up, 2 down back to back. It's useful for putting stuff on top of.

We have an elderly Clavinova which I got off gumtree for £200!!
It's fab.. feels 'real' sounds good and plugging in headphones is a real bonus as I am a beginner (learned as a kid, forgot it all!)

It just sits in the living room and is part of the furniture.. small 3 bed here!

We moved into what we thought was our dream home, a Victorian semi. The next door neighbour played his piano loudly and we had a party wall so could hear every note. By the time we moved out a year later, we agreed buying the house had been the biggest mistake we ever made. Even now, the sound of piano notes makes me feel uneasy.

I grew up in a house with a grand piano - my DM was a 'serious' hobby player. It was almost certainly her prized possession.

She died and now I'm trying to find a house with space for the piano. Or... I may sell it and buy a decent upright. But I don't really know the process.

OP, you do have room for a piano :) when DM was in her twenties she had a grand piano in her bedroom. The foot of her bed went underneath it :D

I've played since I was 9, so not as long as some. I personally hate clavinovas and other electronics. They are not the same. I feel most mimick yamahas and I would never own an acoustic one of those either.

I'm a big fan of learning on a nice little acoustic. Something like a Zender, Knight or Bentley won't cost the earth. Mine is in the alcove in the living room. We didn't buy one house because we couldn't have got the piano in without taking down metal railings or a window out. Priorities

2.5 bed link detached house here. We took out a sideboard and put in piano to the dining room bit of our lounge diner.

I've just started it again. Teaching myself scales and how to read music again. It is a lot of fun. My toddler enjoys a key bash session.

There's almost always space somewhere. Piano tuning is not very expensive and can be done yearly if you don't mind imperfect pitch for a bit

We have an electronic piano (not keyboard) in the upstairs box room of our tiny terraced house.

I have a teeny new build house, but have found space for a small piano. It cost £100 from eBay plus van hire and tuner.
I can't play, but meant for the children to use it.

I LOVE it!

Sure, it's mainly used as a battlefield for DS's toy soldiers but we all have the odd tinkle, and visitors always just start playing.

I love the sound filling the house! My neighbours have said how much they enjoy hearing it, rather than it being a nuisance, which is nice. They genuinely weren't being sarcastic.

Get one. Now.

I could not bear to have my piano out of tune for most of the year and my DC were never allowed to bash on the keyboard when I had my upright. Of course, if I had enough room, I would have a dedicated music room with a beautiful grand piano, but I would also have to have enough money to have it tuned at least every two months. Tuning is very expensive and becoming more so as piano tuners are no longer training. I was very, very fortunate to have a fantastic tuner who was also able to do some repairs on my piano, but old age eventually caught up with it. As I also sing, having the piano at concert pitch is a must. My old piano was a semi-tone down by the end, and I knew the difference.

While most electric pianos have weighted keys, not all of them do, by any means. There is not the same vibration while you play, but the Clavinova has come closest to that in my experience. Have fun with whichever piano you go for, but please, if you want your children to learn properly, get a full sized keyboard. A lot more pieces require it than you would think.

My mother had one in a two bed semi.

DS started with an electric keyboard and now has a Korg piano. Our only complaint is his tendency to wear headphones so we can't hear him playing. Weighted keys, pedals, has a nice feel and lovely sound. The original keyboard is used for sound effects and travels to the grandies'.

Just remembered friend who is a serious player (studied at the Conservatoire) who has a piano in her one bed, one living space flat.