So I’m getting piano lessons and my teacher wants me to get an upright piano instead of a keyboard. An upright piano is way above my price range, so what do I do? And what’s the difference between an upright piano and a keyboard?

First, you google “piano moving services in (my city).” A lot of cities have companies that can move a piano. It’ll cost you a few bucks, but they know how to do it without injuring either themselves or the piano. The company in my area that moves pianos also tunes them, which is a good thing because you’ll also need to have it tuned once you’ve gotten it home.

Then you go on Craigslist and post this ad: “Got a piano you don’t want anymore and just want to give it away? I’m a new piano student and I’d love to give it a good home. Call xxx-xxx-xxxx.” Call the local newspaper and place the same classified ad. A lot of people want to get rid of Grandma’s piano but don’t have a way to haul it to the dump; this will help them. See if you can get your piano teacher to go over with you to check the piano before you take it; a lot of times Grandma’s piano isn’t playable and your piano teacher will be able to play the instrument and tell you if it’s good enough to learn on.

Here’s what you do.

Hello, I have a question about astral projection. I started to get interested in this a little while after my mum passed in april. I thought I may be able to see her and speak with her if I managed to achieve astral projection. Since this interest, every time i sleep on my back I go into sleep paralysis. However, I cant progress into astral projection because it is very scary for me as I feel like I'm suffocating when this happens. I panic and force myself to wake up. This only ever happened about once a year before this. It sometimes lasts a long time. This has happened about 3 times per week since my mum died, as mentioned on a previous post. I no longer try to go into it anymore(due to the suffocating feeling), but it still happens. I read that sleep paralysis is the pathway to astral projection. Why has this started to happen so frequently since simply taking an interest in it? Is this connected to the afterlife? I am concerned about it as I now cannot seem to stop this happening. Could it be my mum trying to communicate? Im asking due to more knowledge around this in this group.

The difference between the two instruments is feel. A keyboard has a bunch of switches and sensors in it to tell the electronics “Middle C is pressed, play a Middle C with x loudness.” A piano has a complex system of levers and rods that cause a felt-covered hammer to strike the strings - which is why many people consider a piano to be a percussion instrument rather than a keyboard instrument. Since your piano teacher is teaching you on a real piano, he or she wants you to have an instrument that feels the same as the piano in the conservatory.

Getting a free piano moved and tuned will cost you less than buying a good keyboard. The flipside of this is that if you live in an apartment you may not want a piano because every time you move you’ll need to call the piano movers to relocate it.