The Lincolnshire Poacher LH takes shape... With a digression on sight reading
This afternoon I managed to get a go on this Yamaha Arius. "Authentic sound and natural touch," apparently . First time I've had a go on a digital piano, apart from a quick shot on the ones in Biggars . Played a few scales, and then got back to The Poacher LH. First thing I noticed, playing high up the keys as I do, they seemed to be ever so slightly closer together, which made me liable to, say, play A and hit G# enough for it to sound slightly. Maybe the keys weren't too close together, but on an old acoustic, the fingers slide between the ebony, whereas they will rub on the plastic of a digital? I've never played a modern acoustic, with plastic keys, and I'm keen to see how that feels. The sound was nothing like an acoustic. Kind of dull, lacking... the plumpness of a real piano. And the action, no, no, no. An acoustic has a kind of rocking sensation to the keys, probably something to do with the hammer action. It's quite a subtle thing, but ev...