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For my wife's 30th birthday I want to get her a piano. She's somewhere between grade 5-7. The budget is somewhere below £1K and ideally it'll be a compact design - it needs to be a maximum depth of 60cm and the shorter the better, south of 130cm.

I've been advised to look out for something like a secondhand Yahama B1 or Steinmayer S108 as it fits the budget and would fit better in our house. I've also scoured eBay but being a novice myself I'm wary of buying something that might be shit.

However, a few people have also said that for this budget I could get a new digital piano that would be easier to put in the house (and could go in our much more spacious loft) and probably sound comparable to a budget piano. My concern is the wife has always been very anti-digital, although I don't think she's played digital pianos as much as keyboards.

Anyone got any recommendations? I'm really tempted to just drop the surprise and take her to a few stores and showrooms and get her to pick - we'll end up with something she is more likely to play that way.

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rhowe in reply to @beseku

My other half is a piano teacher. I bought a digital one simply because we knew we'd be moving, we didn't have space for a real one and we lived in a flat with several neighbours (having a volume control and the option for headphones is really handy).

It's a Casio Privia PX320 with a stand and pedals.

She doesn't really like it, but it's better than not having one. Now we've got a house and only one adjoining neighbour we're also about to be in the market for a real piano.

She always advises her students to have a real piano if at all possible - even the good digital ones aren't the same.

Head to the Yamaha shop on Wardour Street and have a play around. You may as well nip into the Steinway shop in Marylebone too just because everything's so pretty.

Second hand acoustic pianos can be had for very good prices - often people are simply unable to take them when they move home.

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