Many students want to know whether to buy an acoustic or digital piano, so I thought I'd summarise my thoughts here. An acoustic piano has weighted keys - in other words it takes approximately 53 grams of weight to put down a key. There is also something called an escapement. You can find the escapement by slowly pushing a key down and feeling the point of friction (a little bump). This is where sound is made and it is approximately 2/3rds of the way down the key. A digital p