Piano Lamp - Improve Your Piano Playing
Way back in the days of old people would play the piano at night by candlelight. That practice made it difficult to read the music and sometimes could even be dangerous. The glare that reflected off the music and into the eyes of the player many times gave people eyestrain. One day a lamp specialist attempted to solve the problem by placing a cover on the back of the candle so the light would not reflect back into the player’s eyes. That was the beginning of the piano lamp.
Electricity and the light bulb soon followed. While the light bulb was much safer to use than a candle, the glare created from it was far worse. A music lover came up with the idea to place a cover on the light to reflect the light away from the player and onto the music.
A candleabra is a very fancy lamp. A candleabra typically has multiple lights and is most recognized when sitting atop a grand piano. Most candleabras are expensive and have prices that range from $200 to $1000. While certainly attractive, the candleabra is still a piano lamp and has a purpose in lighting music while not creating glare for the musician. Each piano type has a style of piano lamp to go along with it whether the piano is a console, studio, grand or upright. There are piano lamps that are completely adjustable from the floor that will serve the need for all types of pianos.
Sitting on top of the piano is the most common location for piano lamps, however, some of them are floor based. Floor based piano lamps have the benefit of being arranged to focus light from just about any angle. All piano lamps have the cover in common, the ability to reduce glare is what makes them a piano lamp. Musicians will often purchase a piano lamp as a way to highlight their piano and make it more of a showcase in their house. The lamps are very good looking and also very useful.
Piano lamps come in many different styles and are made of many different materials. Brass and chrome are the most popular materials used to make a piano lamp but many enameled surfaces are used in the manufacturing process to allow for more affordability and style.
Stability can best be received from the shelf style of piano lamp which typically sits on top of the piano. The base of a shelf lamp is usually made of a heavy material like marble, which doubles as being an atractive material and provid significant weight to the lamp base. One of the best features of a counter-weighted arm is that they make the lamp almost impossible to tip over, regardless of the position while in use.
Piano lamps are manufactured to be either plug-in or battery-powered. Several companies also manufacture piano lamps that clip-on directly to the sheet music. An electric piano lamp is normally designed for either one or two light bulbs of 40-watts or less. You can purchase these piano lamps at furnishing stores, music stores or online. The price in US dollars of a piano lamp can range from as low as forty to as high as hundreds of dollars.
Since they were first invented, piano lamps have eliminated the need to have candles provide light and a soft mood for piano concerts and recitals. The modern piano lamp is much less dangerous and even more elegant than the most beautiful candleabras of yesterday.