I want to learn to play the piano

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Knittingacat
I have a Yamaha keyboard with 88 keys touch sensitive. It is compact, not as long as piano keyboard.
Sorry not heard of piano conversion.

I can play (sort of) & I have a good piano, but I've lost my confidence (partly because my old old old piano had totally lost it's touch sensitiveness, I had to bash it,)
I am deaf so although I can sort of hear, sometimes I play a few bars having dropped a tone in one hand & I don't realise, which is embarrassing. But probably no-one's listening.
So thanks for posting, sorry I can't advise but this post has definitely given me an impetus to get playing regularly again.

Thanks so much for all your informative and inspirational posts. I'm investigating all you've shared and glad to read my post is inspiring others to learn or get back to playing

Knittingacat

That sounds great livelylady! I would be interested in a system like this if I had room for a digital piano but I wouldn't want to give up my lovely Yamaha upright (although I understand you can get a system installed on an acoustic piano which allows you to use it as a digital piano).
This might be helpful for grassgreen markgoodwinpianos.co.uk/blog/Digital-Pianos-vs-Acoustic-Pianos.

I have a very old upright piano, bought for me as a surprise present by dh, who (bless him) knew nothing about pianos. I had not long taken up the piano again from a very low base - just grade 2 over 50 years previously!
The piano, however, had a very tinny tone, the soft pedal squeaked, and the tuner told me it was on its very last legs dating from IIRC the 1880s.
However the cabinet was beautiful wood, so I was very reluctant to scrap it. Eventually I found a company in Worcs. who would convert it to a very good quality digital. It wasn’t cheap, but from the outside you’d never know the difference, the tone is miles better and the pedals no longer squeak! It just needs to be switched on and off.
The company collected and returned it.
After a lot of work on my own, followed by a few years pre Covid, at a group class, I was managing to play certain 4 and 5 pieces - only the ones I really liked enough to work on, though!

Furret There are excellent tutorials on UTube - and they use a digital firm of notation which is so easy to pick up.

Could you direct me to one of these tutorials, please Furret. I've not come across them.

Just an update on my progress. I've ordered a couple of books as recommended above and earlier in the week visited a piano shop. Wow! There was something for everyone, from a few hundred pounds to tens of thousands of pounds and the member of staff I spoke with spent ages with me. He patiently explained what the various pianos did, listened to what wanted to do and guided me in the right direction.

The outcome is that I'm going to rent a new acoustic Yamaha piano for 6 months. After which I can buy it and the rental cost is taken off the price. Or I can just give it back. This feels like a very positive arrangement for me.

Good luck, grassgreen - hope you really enjoy it!
Just to add, a woman at the group class I attended for a few years, had never even touched a piano before she started, and the last time I saw her, she had just passed Grade 3.
Being too chicken ever to have faced exams, I admired her enormously!

My friend created a very unique way of learning to play that is much more than the "student sound." I have a Facebook group where you can go through his free training. It is a new group. Maybe you can help me build it with more members. Let me know if you would like the link.