Are the lessons with the piano keyboard “real” piano lessons?
The most common public misconception about the piano is that the PIANO is something big, wooden, and preferably of black color. This notion is taken from movies and concert halls, and chiefly based on the fact that a very limited number of families have any piano at home, and an even smaller number of people can actually play on it and do it regularly. This misconception may be eagerly supported by a sales staff in a piano shop who would like to persuade you that starting piano lessons on a piano that costs less than several thousand dollars is just a waste of your time. Everybody looks at the piano keyboard merely as a toy for children, or a loud teenager’s instrument for primitive tunes. Some teachers even support the opinion that playing a keyboard can spoil a child’s playing apparatus and forever ruin their piano playing technique. It’s interesting that for the guitar, a more widespread instrument, people are not so concerned about material and size it is until the instrument produ
