Every small wooden part is greatly influenced by the environment and is most sensitive to the humidity change in the indoor environment. The environment is humid, and the parts swell when wet; When the environment is dry, it will shrink. Qingdao is close to the sea, and the climate is generally humid. Every year in the rainy season of June, July, August and September, the small wooden parts in the piano expand together. If it is a piano produced in the north, such as Beijing or Northeast China, the parts swell seriously, resulting in common problems of the piano, such as inflexible keys, or inability to play, and muffled sound. Piano produced in Guangzhou, Shanghai, Hangzhou and other southern regions, due to the humid place of origin, the parts have not changed much after being wetted.
Therefore, pianos produced in arid areas in the north have more failures in humid areas, while pianos in the south have fewer failures. Musical shops selling northern pianos in humid areas emphasize adaptation to the climate, which is nonsense. Knowing that customers will ask such questions is particularly important from the beginning.
Second, don't look beautiful, look ordinary.
The quality of the piano has nothing to do with its appearance. A high-quality piano means comfortable playing and beautiful timbre. You can't pay attention to the appearance like buying furniture, but you should pay attention to the sound and playing feel of the piano. The world-famous pianos Steinway in Germany or Yamaha in Japan are all famous for their beautiful timbre and good touch of keys, not for their beautiful appearance. On the contrary, the appearance of these famous pianos is very ordinary.
On the other hand, the domestic Xiaoqin factory did not work hard on the internal quality of the piano, but made a bad idea on the appearance of the piano. Why? Because it costs a lot to improve the internal quality of the piano, it is necessary to select materials, specialize in drying wood, introduce fine equipment, select excellent materials and so on. All this is beyond the capabilities of Xiaoqin Factory. To sell shoddy pianos, the idea of playing the piano appearance is simple and effective. As long as you go to the furniture factory to order a luxurious and beautiful shell, an ordinary piano will become a luxurious and high-end world famous piano with a price that naturally conforms to the status of a world famous piano. After dressing up the appearance of the piano, the price of the original ordinary piano immediately rose by four or five thousand to ten thousand. Do you still dare to buy a luxurious and beautiful piano?
Not only the world famous pianos are simple in appearance, but also the pianos of several famous domestic factories are very common, and the fancy ones are basically miscellaneous pianos.
What is the principle of "eight wants and eight don't want" that people often say when buying pianos?
Third, not foreign brands, but well-known brands.
Ninety-nine percent of foreign brand pianos appearing in the market are named by China Xiaoqin Factory. Such as Thompson, Mozart, Mendelssohn, William Steinberg, Sembolon and Toyama. . . . . . These small workshops produce inferior pianos. How much are they? Foreign names are a good shortcut. Foreign names can cover up the lack of piano quality and mislead people into thinking of foreign pianos, thinking that the quality of foreign pianos must be good. What's more, the musical instrument store simply says that it is a foreign piano and foreign technical equipment. Some musical instruments openly advertise and boast about the joint exhibition of the top ten famous pianos, and the ten names listed are all foreign names. Several names were written by a factory.
It can be concluded that foreign brand pianos are basically brand-name pianos produced by small factories. Buy a good piano or a brand-name piano with good traditional reputation?
Fourth, don't play the grand piano, play the grand piano.
Upright piano is divided into small and medium-sized according to the height, with 120 as medium, 125 as large, and 1 15 as small. The factory produces grand pianos and small pianos with the same technology, the same working hours and different materials. In short, the production cost of grand and small pianos is not very different, but the selling price of merchants is very different.
Musical shops spare no effort to recommend grand pianos for one purpose: high profits. With the same brand, grand piano with 125 or more is four to seven thousand more expensive than 120. Their usual selling method is: Qin Xiao can only play at the elementary level, but not at the tenth level, so you have to buy a big one at a time.
The main difference between a grand piano and a small piano is the volume. Grand piano's bass range is rich and loud, that's all, and other functions are the same. Small and medium-sized pianos are cheap and affordable, and the profits of manufacturers and businesses are relatively small.
Some small piano factories hardly produce small and medium-sized pianos because they can't sell at high prices and have too little profit. So almost all the unknown pianos with miscellaneous brands are 123, 125, 130 models. It's not worth spending more money on grand piano, which makes the neighbors unbearable.