The room where my piano sits is quite dark even when the ceiling light it is on. When I sit at the piano the light is behind me too, casting even more shadow. So I found a tall flexible lamp I want to sit behind and above the piano, so I can clearly see the sheet music and keys. (It doesn't have a globe in it yet, and is a 'large edison' style fitting.)
I haven't had any experience with halogen, or LED globes. Some brands in Woolworths only list the lumens, with no equivalent incandescent figure quoted. (Equivalent to 40W, 60W, etc.)
Now a 40W incandescent used to be too dull for me as a ceiling light. 60W was ok. 75W was even better, but was sometimes too bright, and I wound up going back to 60W.
I noticed LED globes use several times less power than halogen. So I'm leaning towards LED. Problem is… those dreadful compact fluorescents were always too dull despite what they claimed was the equivalent wattage. And, the LEDs are expensive. So I don't want to buy the wrong one.
How does the light of LEDs compare to incandescents? ie. Is the light duller/same/brighter? And which wattage/lumens should I be getting… what lumens equate to 40W & 60W incandescents - and which one is the correct brightness?
I always get something higher than what I would of used incandescent.
Get the warm coloured ones.
I switched all my lights over to LED and haven't had an issue at all with lighting in the house. I did have to do trial and error with the brightness as I found getting what they called equivalent in incandescent was slightly lower brightness than it was on incandescent when you looked at it.