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When someone visits your home for the first time, what features or items do they comment upon?
If you’re not sure, enjoy carefully observing what the next visitor to your house looks at when they visit for the first time.
What are they looking for?
Usually, they’re searching for something that hints at a thread of connection between you.
Something that might draw you closer together. People love people, after all, and naturally seek out connections with others.
Maybe you already have a ‘conversation starter’ object which every visitor comments upon.
If you don’t, or you couldn’t imagine going to such lengths simply to amuse guests, then let me suggest a creative alternative that comes somewhere in between.
A piano.
You might be asking why you’d need a piano when neither you nor any members of your household play or have any intention to start doing so.
Acquiring a piano is not about you or your family becoming the next Beethoven, and it’s not even about enriching your home with music or anything too ethereal like that—although it’s a pleasing and rewarding side benefit!
Owning a piano as a ‘conversation starter’ will offer more visitors than you’d expect an opportunity to reveal a little of themselves to you and make that all-important human connection.
Why?
Because the piano is an age-old, venerable instrument and so many people have a memory connected to a piano from some point in their life.
Such is the special status of the piano that these stories are likely to be emotive, often connected to a loved family member, living or lost.
The memories and stories will vary from happy and funny—you’ll see the smiles appear on guests’ faces as perhaps they remember sitting on a parent or grandparents’ lap as a child while they played, to deeply sad and regretful—as perhaps long-lost family members are remembered.
Overall, the memories you’ll find are attached to the piano in your home and that are shared with you by visitors will have true meaning.
I’ve had a piano in every home I’ve lived in, man and boy, and I’ve got a heart full of memories attached to each one.
I can testify that this unwieldy box of wood and wires, this antique that collects memories as it does dust, this benevolent purveyor of humanity masquerading as furniture, will honour its adoption by your household with grace, by breathing warmth on cold formalities and subtly altering the soundtrack of the lives that pass through it.
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These items are sold on behalf of Yamaha, and are sent to us on a per-order basis, typically within 5-7 working days, unless an ETA is otherwise stated.
We'll contact you the moment your purchase arrives with us to organise delivery, based on your selected option.
Example products: Yamaha DGX670, Yamaha P-525, Yamaha YDP-S55, Yamaha Clavinova.
These items must be sent with a heavy-goods courier (typically APC or FedEx). On occasion, depending on which is fastest, we will drop-ship directly from Yamaha to your address via Dachser.
Tracking will be provided by the haulier, with a typical arrival time of 1-2 working days.
*If you have included the optional £180 "Yamaha Premium Service" home delivery & setup option offered on selected products, we will contact you regarding arrangements after purchase.
**The Yamaha CSP Series, Yamaha CVP905 & CVP909, Yamaha CLP875, 885 & 895GP, and Yamaha NU1Xa are all sold on behalf of Yamaha and arrive with us on a per-order basis. As soon as your piano has arrived, we will contact you to organise the appropriate dispatch method. ETA for stock is shown on the product page for those items.
***If you have included the optional £99 home delivery & setup option offered on selected products, we will send your details direct to the installation team, who will contact you within 48 hours to make arrangements.
Depending on which option is most appropriate, we will either contact you to discuss a bespoke ePianos delivery surcharge for goods we can’t package for a 3rd party courier, or otherwise dispatch goods via FedEx or APC.
If a courier is used, tracking will be provided by them directly, with a typical arrival time of 1-2 working days.
Example products: Yamaha PSR-SX920, Yamaha P-225, Yamaha NP-15.
These items will be sent via courier (typically APC or FedEx). On occasion, depending on which is fastest, we will drop-ship directly from Yamaha to your address via UPS or Parcelforce.
Tracking will be provided by the courier, with a typical arrival time of 1-2 working days.
Smaller items, such as books, discs, etc, will be dispatched via Royal Mail second class.
After purchase, you can download the file either from the order confirmation page or the "Downloads" tab in "My Account".
If you have selected the option to receive a pre-loaded USB stick, then this will be dispatched via Royal Mail.
We will contact you regarding any pre-ordered items, and let you know when they arrive so as to arrange delivery with you at a convenient time.
Used items can also be purchased using either of the following options (minimum loan amount of £250 after deposit):
Total amount payable: £893.32
Available finance options are displayed at checkout. Alternatively, please get in touch and we’ll be happy to discuss the options, or email a finance application to you. Find out more by clicking here
Our seasonal opening hours are as follows:
We are closed on all bank holidays, therefore the processing of sales and deliveries will be delayed.
For orders of any stock displaying a 7-10 day lead time, we will contact you as soon as the item arrives with us to schedule a delivery with you.
Occasionally, there may be availability issues with our suppliers, in which case we'll get in touch with you to see if you're happy to wait, or if you'd like to cancel the order and receive a full refund.
This is a special order "agency" item, and comes to us directly from Yamaha on a per-order basis.
It typically takes 7-10 days for this item to arrive with us, whereupon we'll contact you to discuss the arrangement of delivery.
For any pre-orders, we will contact you as soon as the item arrives with us to schedule a delivery with you, and update you with an ETA.
Occasionally, there may be availability issues with our suppliers, in which case we'll get in touch with you to see if you're happy to wait, or if you'd like to cancel the order and receive a full refund.
*Cashback amount varies product to product, as indicated.
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