Tuners and technicians generally avoid working on this type of piano. The other drawback is that spinets are more difficult to maintain, thus more expensive to tune and repair.
WURLITZER SPINET PIANO REVIEWS PROFESSIONAL
A spinet is not capable of producing the nuanced sound, touch and volume required by professional musicians due to their smallness and action design. Spinets are space savers and usually less expensive than other uprights, but a lesser quality of sound is the tradeoff. Many of these small, cheap pianos were so poorly designed and constructed that, even when new, and regulated and tuned as well as possible, they played poorly and sounded terrible. Spinets were usually the least expensive entry-level pianos a company would manufacture, and most are not worth repairing. Youtube Review #2 – By watching this video you will know what NOT to do when looking for a piano. Also, the video answers the question if the spinet piano is the right one for you. YouTube Review #1 – This video talks about how we’re the spinet pianos made and why were they made that way. These days most manufacturers have stopped producing spinets entirely. Other commercial brands included Wurlitzer spinet pianos which were modest models, reasonably priced, as were Kimball spinet pianos. The string scale was one of the better spinet scales and reasonably easy to tune (as much as any spinet is). Baldwin’s Acrosonic spinet piano was considered one of the better spinets as its action was well designed and built to be removed in one piece for service. That benign said, there were brands of spinet that found great favour over the years. The top of the piano is just a few inches above the keys and the action is located below, this does save space and dimensions, but it results in a lack of control. Originally introduced in the 1930s, spinets were designed to be smaller and cheaper than other uprights, and to accomplish this, is a different kind of action was introduced called a drop action or an indirect blow action with rods or “elbows” under the keyboard connecting each key to the action.Īlso, the keys on a spinet piano are shorter. But the spinet varies from other uprights not merely in size. The keyboard is approximately five feet wide, like most pianos. Upright or vertical pianos come in various different sizes and the spinet piano is the smallest of the upright pianos measuring between 36” and 40” tall from the floor to the top of the lid and weighing about 300 pounds. We’ll explain the differences between Spinet and Console Piano to help you narrow down which instrument might be best for your family. Each type has a slightly different look and sound. There are four different types of vertical piano, listed from shortest to tallest: spinet, console, studio and upright.
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