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Question/ Please can you help. my daughter who is 11 currently goes to piano lessons. at home we do not have a piano to practice, she uses a all singing all dancing keyoard!!  we are now in the situation that she is beginning to use the pedals and having the keyboard, well it doesnt have pedals.  My parents were wanting to buy a piano for her but living in a small house, there is not a great amount of room. 

Her friend gets taught piano on an digital/electric piano, but my daughters teacher advised against purchasing one of these and said we should buy just an normal one.  not being musically minded, i dont have a clue to what the differences are other than one you plug in and one you dont!!  please can you help and give me your advise. thank you for taking the time to read my letter.

Answer/

I always recommend learning on a proper upright piano. Digital pianos do have some advantages over uprights, namely: space saving, no tuning required, easy to move around, and the headphone function.

However...

The upright piano has a far superior sound and a touch that an electronic piano can never get near.

I believe that these two advantages outway the digital piano by far. There are more advantages, but I wont go into them here. You can read my article about which type of piano is best to buy here: http://ukpianos.co.uk/should-i-buy-a-digital-piano-or-an-upright-piano-.html.

I hope my advice has been helpful to you.

Regards,

Graham Howard

UK Pianos