Skinnyman

Ryan just bought my Pedal Train(s) and, just like everyone else, i found him super easy to deal with from start to finish. Thanks Ryan!

Festivals haven’t been my thing since Knebworth ‘79 so I’m going to show my naivety here but don’t the Beeb pay Glastonbury for the rights to broadcast the footage? And, if that is the case, then wouldn’t it be the case that those sections of the media who don’t want the BBC to show it are presumably at liberty to outbid the Beeb for the rights if they wanted? Or is it protected like a Wimbledon/Boat Race thing and always free-to-view? Also showing my ignorance - what events this year?

Kawai and Yamaha are about the only two that seem to have any real resale value and even then the depreciation on a new piano is huge. We bought a Kawai K300 a few years ago and it’s a lovely intermediate-level instrument. It does, however, need room for the sound to “blossom” and when we moved house we ended up with it in a smaller room that, no matter how we treated it acoustically, made it painful to play at any volume. With hindsight, we should have bought one of the hybrid pianos but in the end we swapped it for a Kawai digital. The market nowadays seems to be swamped with Chinese pianos that have European-sounding names but no real heritage - I’m sure like most things from China these days they’re fine instruments and I daresay one could get a lightly-used example for a bargain price. If I was buying a new piano today, even if I lived in a mansion, I’d go with a Yamaha or Kawai hybrid that allowed silent playing.

I read the title of this thread and my first thought was “Sounds like a good swap”. 😁