Customer Reviews

Schoenhut 37 Key Trad/Deluxe Spinet with Bench

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1 star:		(2)

 

 

My son who is almost 3 received this for Christmas. What a beautiful and rewarding toy. This is something that can be passed down to future generations, very good quality. The sound isn't quite classic piano, but sounds very nice. Almost like chimes. It comes with a removable color coded key guide and a song booklet. The matching bench is great too. My son really loves it and I think it's a great way to introduce him to a musical instrument. I read somewhere that this is the smallest piano ever played at Carnagie Hall. (small trivia tidbit).

While I didn't expect fantastic sound from a toy piano, given the price it should be reasonable to expect better quality. The action of the keys feels very cheap. There is almost no travel and adequate rebound to the key action. You pretty much can't get a sound out without a forceful hit leaving little room for subtlety in dynamics. One of the notes is pretty badly out of tune -- so much for the advertised "precision" of the sound rods. Worst of all is the upper octave. Striking any note there sets up a very unpleasant resonant hum which pretty much drowns out the note you are trying to play.

Because of a shipping mix up, we actually got shipped two of these and sent one back. The second one had pretty much the same defects, so these problems are clearly inherent to the quality of the product.

The piano looks nice enough, and we weren't going to send back our daughter's second birthday present at the last minute, so we ended up keeping this. She does enjoy it as a toy, and it will be good enough to introduce her to the basics of a keyboard, but I'm severely disappointed in the quality of this given the price. Clearly whatever quality this brand once had has been squandered in outsourcing its production to China, so by all means "mark well the name," for it now deserves scorn. If my daughter was a little older, I think I would pay half as much for an electronic keyboard.

I bought this for my grandson, at the request of my daughter. The chair broke immediately and could not be fixed. The unit looks good, but sounds awful, and my grandson has hardly used it.

After reading a couple of the reviews this product received I had some reservation about ordering it. Nevertheless I did purchase this piano and am so glad I did. This Schoenhut 37 Key Traditional/Deluxe Spinet Piano is an excellent product. It is very well constructed and so beautifully crafted that it is hard to think of this as a toy. This piano could easily fit in with the most formally decorated of rooms. Because it uses metal rods, the piano has a unique and pleasant hint of a chime sound. The piano came fully assembled. The only thing we had to put together was the stool and that took a whole 10-minutes. Our 2 1/2 year old daughter shows a great deal of interest in wanting to play the piano. We wanted to get her something that would keep her interested and make it easy to transition to a real piano. The keys on the Schoenhut piano are the same width as full size keys but are shorter to accomadate the size of a child's finger. I'm really glad that we got the 37 key piano because it gives you two full octives and partial octives on the high and low ends on the keyboard. Our daughter loves playing this piano and we have lots of fun playing it together. By the way, the older string version of this model is currently fetching between $1400 & $1600 at auction.

I think my title about says it all. I was really counting on this for xmas for my daughter, and it was shipped damaged. And by damaged I mean that all the keys were falling out all over the place and it looked like someone had punched it out! When I called, the company was less than professional and acted like, "oh great, well, we'll send another one, OK?" It never came. UPS came and picked up the damaged one, and I waited...and waited...and waited. Called again, "oh so your asking us to send you another one?" I said that I wasn't asking, I was trying to find out where the one was that was supposed to have already been sent. "oh, no problem, we'll send another one." When can I expect it? "oh, 3-5 days." That was probably two weeks ago. And no credit to my card either. Ever since amazon started ferreting out to other companies, stuff like this happens.

When we recieved the piano it was not packaged very well. The box was in bad shape, it had dints and wholes in the sides and looked as if it was opened before and then re-taped. I was timped to send the piano back but decided against it with only a few days until Christmas...hoping for the best. When we set it out on Christmas Eve we noticed there was a scratch in the wood yet nothing to cry home about. Overall my son was very happy on Christmas morning and loves to play with his piano.