Most recommended pianos for parents

A brief guide to start your musical journey

Due to popular request, I’ve recently published a page on our website featuring our most recommended pianos for parents and students at a range of levels and budgets. If you’ve been looking for your family’s first piano or your teacher has suggested that you will need to upgrade soon, this guide is a great place to start.

I’ve listed several of our most popular pianos in order of their price-points and made some brief comments about which level of playing they are suitable for. You can see the full list here:

Skip the sales jargon

It’s really not important that your piano has mahogany hammers, or agraffes, or some other fancy-sounding features. What matters is how the piano was put together (or to be more specifically, who put it together) and the fundamental design principles that have been used. Pianos are not like mobile phones and comparing features and benefits on the internet won’t get you very far or make for useful comparisons. If you’re interested in hearing and discussing the differences between various pianos the best thing you can do is visit our showroom to see these pianos in action. It truly is the only way to make a meaningful comparison. Our friendly staff will always be happy to offer some guidance and advice that is specific to your situation.

Disclaimer

Of course, all of the opinions presented on that page are my own - and I’m old-fashioned and highly opinionated at the best of times! If you have any questions about why a particular piano has made the list or has been left out, please feel free to contact me and I’ll be happy to elaborate on my reasoning. I wanted to keep the page simple for parents who might be feeling overwhelmed and so have not expanded too far on the information there in the hope it serves as a starting point for your piano research. For now, I have linked some respected external websites on that page that may give a little more insight into the rankings. In the future I intend to publish a more in-depth post to discuss my thoughts about when grand-pianos are necessary, a more comprehensive look at how upright pianos change at various sizes, and technical aspects of design. Stay tuned for those posts!

Compulsory reading for all parents:

While I’ve got you here, I’d also like to refer parents to an open letter to parents of piano students.

“There is sometimes a conflict between what parents believe is best for their children and what music educators know to be the best way to teach in the 21st Century.” - Tim Topham

Tim Topham posted this letter on his blog in 2017 and it is as relevant as ever! If you have children learning the piano this is compulsory reading - if you can pay to put your children through lessons than you can spare the 10-minutes to ensure you’re supporting your children’s musical development in the best way possible.

Thanks for reading!