Dear Mary, Digital pianos basically come in two shades, single-function and multi-function digitals. After spending a year as an activity specialist at a nursing home, I found that anything that is both electrical and covered with buttons scares the Ensure right out of them. A single function digital (Yamaha YDP-121, Kurzweil Mark-2, etc...) has only the basic instruments (piano, strings, pipe organ, etc...). Besides the volume control, a nursing facility might be pursuaded by the weight and movability, allowing the use of the piano on other wings. A multi-function would be a waste of the facility's money (except if they were planning on using the instrument as a player piano). The other possibility of adding amplification seems more economical. On T.V. they advertise "Sonic Ears", and they really work. And they only cost $20 a piece. I once visited a professor at Julliard that had two Steinway grands (a 'B' and and 'O' series) in a small Manhattan apartment. His solution was to pile rolls of carpet under the piano till the pile reached the bottom of the sound board. Under the lid he laid a 3" thick wool mat. Though muted, the piano's really sang. Good Luck, Eric Frankson Desert Piano, Rancho Mirage, CA
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