Por fin I am back on an acoustic piano. The first thing I've noticed is how heavy the keys are. The electric keyboard had lighter action, which I generally prefer, but now my repeated notes and finger muscles have deteriorated. I'm having to work for a dynamic range because the music actually became quite interesting to me played flat, and now if I diminuendo, I have to work much harder to maintain a good tone. My voicing has suffered but not as much as I feared. And I believe it's easier now to play all the notes together in chords. The only things from the electric I miss are the ease and rapid fire of glissandi and scales.
Switching sections to their correct octaves in my memory hasn't proved a problem, and virtuosic passages that jumped past the limited range are coming together as easily as if I'd been practicing them on a full-range keyboard. All in all, I'm recovering my technique more easily than I anticipated.
January 2, 2010
Acoustic again
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I am most emphatically not a virtuoso pianist like you, but I certainly empathize with your joy at being back on an acoustic. All I have to practice on at my house is an old electric organ without enough keys and it's so great to play at church on a "real" piano every week!
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