What's the difference between traditional grand piano and baby grand piano?
Grand Pianos Sizes
- Concert Grand: 2.75 to 3.05 m
- Semiconcert wing: 2.15 to 2.35 m
- Salon wing: 2 to 2.08 m
- Professional wing: 1.83 m
- Medium wing: 1.68 to 1.73 m
- Baby Wing: 1.5 to 1.68 m
- Small wing: 1.35 to 1.47 m
Show Differences
The voices of the best baby grand pianos are almost indistinguishable from those of larger grand pianos. However, this becomes less the case if the size of the piano decreases. Many listeners notice the subtle difference between smaller pianos and larger pianos. The distinctive timbre of the wing is partly dependent on the length of the strings and sounding board (along with the quality and finish of these parts). Longer strings allow frequencies to resonate from a larger surface area, resulting in a more balanced, full tone. Consider how a guitar string produces a clear tone when hit by the bridge, but sounds soft and blues-like when hit in the middle. This tone spectrum widens as the series lengthens; and as these extremes come further apart, more vocal elements are revealed between them. Because of this enrichment, the voice of a concert grand is considered tonal superior to that of a baby grand piano. At the same time, tonal superiority refers to acoustics, not personal preference. However, these features, which may be unpleasant to some musicians, remain celebrated by others for their colourful, eclectic representation of vocal originality.
