Nord User Forum

[EVH1984]

I am close to buy a Nord but i dont know which one, there are so many models. I want to play classic music but also songs like Van Halen Jump, specially this song with exact same melody, which one to buy?

Nord stage 3, Nord 6D or Nord Piano 4 .......

can you help or give me suggestion

thanks in advance

[fieldflower]

Welcome to the forum!

If you mostly play piano, mainly care about piano feel, don't need organ sounds (except as simple sample versions) the piano/grand may be for you.

If You are equally interested in organ sounds/possibilities and don't need a super flexible synth/sample player (and is willing to go down one notch in key feel for piano playing) the Electro series may be for You.

If You need both piano and organ and also a potent synth engine the Stage series is Your best bet.
Here You also get bend/modulation which isn't on the Piano/Grand/Electro.
If Stage is too expensive the Electro would probably be the natural plan B, but You'd be giving up on some stuff...

[Schorsch]

Hi and welcome

if you intend to play piano classic music you can eliminate the Nord Electro, it’s keybed is not very suitable to play classic pianos. This then leaves you with Nord Stage and Nord Piano.

The Nord Piano is the best of these for classic piano because of the keyboard action but I think the Nord Stage is not far away from this.

Playing other music like Jump requires a synth section which is much more powerful on the Nord Stage than on the Nord Piano.

So as a result the Nord Stage offers the best compromise for both classic and pop/rock music (and also has a very good organ engine for the latter), I think it will give you the best combination of all you need

[EVH1984]

thanks guys, this helps me for choosing

[Quai34]

I Was like you 10 years ago and it didn't take me long to see that the stage, like they said in the previous posts, is the winner....I took one year of classical lessons at the conservatory to be back on my chops because I had a long period with no real playing, and it was perfectly OK to practice on it...
BUT, if you are really into high level parts of classic music, you main hit the ceiling on pieces like 3rd movement of midnight sonata....the rebound is a bit slow and it doesn't help you to play this part that fast....Ok, if you have a very high level and strengths, you will be compensating....
But Waltz, Prelude and Sonata from Chopin, good, any back inventions 3 parts, good, any Satie Gymnopedie, good, etc....
On a real piano, the mechanism helps you when you have to play very fast parts, you don't have that with the same accuracy on a stage....let me say that I have the Stage 2 and that the stage 3 might be different although I think it's the same fatar Keybed....

[baekgaard]

If you need the best piano action, consider the Nord Grand also in the picture. It is faster to play and may be best for playing classical music.