Today’s higher-quality digital pianos offer a quality of sound and range of functions that can certainly delight beginners and professionals alike.
Only the touch, in our experience, still takes getting used to or is even inadequate. Weighted keyboards are standard today – but these keyboards, even from leading manufacturers, can sometimes feel very unpleasant to play.
Nevertheless, it is perfectly possible to learn to play the piano well on a digital piano. Not everyone wants to, or should, become a concert pianist. As long as it is fun, it works.
A digital piano is not an acoustic – or, technically more precisely, analog – piano. The look, feel, sound and playing behavior of an acoustic piano are still unique. However, an acoustic piano needs more attention, i.e. maintaining the humidity (constantly 50–65%), tuning once or twice a year with minor service work, and a major service every 3–5 years. It also needs more space – and climatically suitable space at that. Electronic systems have their pitfalls too – but the expected maintenance effort is considerably lower.
Quite a few of our customers have both at home. We naturally favor acoustic pianos. They come in numerous designs and can be extended with a number of advantages if required, such as a silent system, a player mechanism, etc.