This is truly amazing! When a person at almost any age plays piano and does it fairly well, the feeling that person gets from playing the piano is like “magic…piano music magic!” Those feelings are like bright colors in the sky or a beautiful colorful forest. Having certain feelings can be very emotional for many people. If those emotions create, good positive results, then wanting to experience those emotions & feelings again and again are what people will want to do.
Playing music on a musical instrument, especially a keyboard instrument like a piano, can and do create all kinds of magical feelings inside a person. It’s like having a colorful array of musical magic that flows out of the person’s mind and then into their fingers to create and play music on a piano. The end result for the piano player in playing piano well on a good piano will propel their mind and soul to a higher plane of personal satisfaction like almost nothing else can. That’s what playing and listening to good music can do.
In other words, playing music on a good piano feels so amazing to so many people that there are few words which can accurately describe the experience and sensations for people who have never played a musical instrument, especially a good piano. Those same emotions and sensations can be partially experienced by people who love listening to good music. But the sensations a person gets from actually playing music is even more intense and wonderful. The best way to actually describe playing a piano is to see this animated visual fantasy above of a beautiful magical music creature playing an amazing colorful magical piano keyboard in a colorful forest with an audience of of magical creatures listening in appreciation of the piano music concert.
You may think all of this sounds somewhat silly or exaggeratiive as far as this kind of explanation goes. Maybe it is. But ask someone who really loves to play piano and how they feel when they play, and you may actually get a similar answer from them. It’s mostly about how they “feel” when they play piano as opposed to how or what they do or what their brain does when playing the piano. To make things even more special and to increase piano playing time, a lot of people do that by playing on a good digital piano.
Playing a good digital piano actually has some distinct advantages over playing a regular acoustic piano for people of any age. There are 6 major advantages included on many good digital pianos, and they are as follows:
1. Turning the piano volume up or down and controlling how loud a digital piano gets, because it has a built-in volume control. Acoustic pianos cannot do that. Acoustic pianos are always loud or louder. A digital piano volume can easily be controlled which helps when other people are in the home doing other things.
2. You can play in complete privacy on digital pianos by plugging in stereo headphones which entirely cuts out the speaker volume. That means you can play anytime day or night during any hours or conditions. This digital piano advantage extends practice and playing time.
3. A good digital piano has built-in permanent tuning so that it cannot go out of tune by itself. An acoustic piano will always eventually go out of tune and will need an experienced piano tuner to come over to your home and tune it up at a substantial expense. Having a piano permanently in tune greatly helps with the enjoyment of piano playing.
4. You can instantly and digitally record your piano playing on most good digital pianos with a built-in digital recorder for creating music and learning how to correct your playing mistakes. You can play back your music and listen to it and make adjustments to your recorded music or when you play the song the next time. This is a great feature for beginners through advanced players to help with learning.
5. You can instantly orchestrate your piano music on many good digital pianos with built in orchestral instruments combined with your piano sounds.
6. You can connect many digital pianos to external devices such as mobile devices, iPad’s, etc using built-in Bluetooth audio and/or MIDI wireless on the digital piano that will allow you to add even greater musical magic to your piano playing experience. An acoustic piano cannot do that.
Digital pianos also come in all shapes, sizes, and cabinet colors including portable digital pianos, upright digital pianos, and digital grand pianos that look like small acoustic baby grand pianos, but with digital controls. In the final analysis a beautiful traditional acoustic piano that has beautiful piano sound and a playable, responsive key action can be a very good investment and bring a lot of musical magic and joy into your life. The piano sound and piano playing experience of any good piano can bring out your deepest feelings and give you amazing moments of musical magic in your life.
The younger you start learning to play the piano, the more time in your life you’ll be able to do it. However, as an adult you can also start to learn to play piano at any age and be successful doing and enjoying it. Just because you didn’t do it earlier or have that opportunity as a child does not mean you cannot bring the piano playing experience into your life as an adult. It is never too late! Never underestimate the amount of “musical magic” and joy that playing piano can bring into your life and the lives of others, especially your children, grandchildren. other family members, and friends.
As a long time experienced piano teacher for over 4 decades and having taught almost all possible demographics of students and styles of music in group and private lessons, there is no doubt that people who play piano enjoy doing it because it makes them feel good when they play piano. In the very beginning there may be a desire to play music on a piano, but when a person doesn’t know how to play music on a piano yet, the “good feelings” may not be there right away. But it doesn’t necessarily take long to get and have those satisfying personal musical and emotional feelings that keeps the ball rolling in a good direction and gets you more motivated to continue to play and enjoy it.
Playing any instrument, especially piano where you get both harmony and melody being played at the same time, is magic…musical magic that brings musical happiness, joy, and amazing satisfaction. Playing music at any level should bring feelings of happiness to you like in this image above. No matter what else you do in life or how hard you work, don’t do it without music.
It is all about how playing & listening to music makes you “feel” and what you can imagine in your mind and in your heart when doing it. Playing piano is much more than the physical instrument. It is about the music you make & feel, and those amazing experiences and feelings can last a lifetime! We can help you with your musical goals and for you to achieve a magical musical outcome, and doing it with the right piano for you.
