{"id":63,"date":"2010-08-10T22:12:12","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T05:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yingwenlewis.com\/piano\/?p=63"},"modified":"2026-04-13T08:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T15:47:08","slug":"selecting-a-student-piano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yingwenlewis.com\/piano\/2010\/selecting-a-student-piano\/","title":{"rendered":"Selecting a Student Piano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found this page which has useful tips on how to purchase a piano. Especially helpful advice when selecting a new instrument for your student:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikihow.com\/Buy-a-Piano\">How to Buy a Piano &#8211; wikiHow<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Avoid electronic keyboards. These are not the same feel or tone as a real piano. The keys are usually unweighted, the instruments don&#8217;t have pedals, and they sound terrible. What you need is a real upright or grand piano. These can be rented or purchased. Renting is not a bad idea for beginners if you are not sure. For my competition students, it is best to have a real grand piano available to practice on daily.<\/p>\n<p>You also will need to identify a good piano tuner. You should have a piano tuner come and service your piano at least once a year, and preferably twice per year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found this page which has useful tips on how to purchase a piano. Especially helpful advice when selecting a new instrument for your student: How to Buy a Piano &#8211; wikiHow Avoid electronic keyboards. These are not the same feel or tone as a real piano. The keys are usually unweighted, the instruments don&#8217;t have [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,9,10,4,5,7,8],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","tag-beginners","tag-grand","tag-keyboard","tag-piano","tag-students","tag-tuner","tag-upright"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yingwenlewis.com\/piano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yingwenlewis.com\/piano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yingwenlewis.com\/piano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yingwenlewis.com\/piano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yingwenlewis.com\/piano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yingwenlewis.com\/piano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"https:\/\/yingwenlewis.com\/piano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yingwenlewis.com\/piano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yingwenlewis.com\/piano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yingwenlewis.com\/piano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}