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> If you're not a pro, having a well-insulated piano room is really expensive - but justifying it as part of the community is easy. Or you could just use a dig
by klipt 11y ago
> If you're not a pro, having a well-insulated piano room is really expensive - but justifying it as part of the community is easy.
Or you could just use a digital piano with headphones. Much cheaper.
> The people I know who have tried cohousing have either left after the first year or decided that was how they wanted to live for the rest of their lives.
I imagine a lot of it depends on the other people. Tragedy of the commons can easily happen unless everyone shares the same standards of kitchen neatness, etc.
- superuser2 11y ago>Or you could just use a digital piano with headphones. Not necessarily. The tactile feedback from the keys is an important part of playing the instrument. Properly weighted keys are for some reason very, very expensive to do well on a digital piano. Some piano teachers will require that students practice on a real instrument after their first year of instruction. That way the student can figure out whether they really want to commit to it before making a large purchase, but a decent upright in the home is considered a requirement for further study.
- klipt 11y ago> Properly weighted keys are for some reason very, very expensive to do well on a digital piano. You can get a decent hammer-weighted digital piano for under $1000: http://www.pianoworld.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/2167459/Comparison_of_Portable_Digital.html http://www.pianoworld.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/216745... More expensive than a $100 unweighted keyboard to be sure, but still much cheaper than a decent acoustic. Plus they can be played silently, can be used to record MIDI tracks, and you never have to tune them!