Which digital home piano is best out of these?
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I am a beginner piano player and I really like to play. My mom said she would buy me a keyboard but the max is 0. No higher! So I have looked at the guitar center website and picked out these keyboards. What I want in a keyboard is the weighted hammer action (whatever its called), full 88 keys and good sound quality. If you have any suggestions please let me know. Thank you.
I want a digital home piano that I can advance into. I am really dedicated towards playing piano. So please share your opinions. Thanks
And please be thorough T_T
To i. jones:
Yeah I just found that out at the Yamaha website. I guess I didn’t look good enough at the description. Yeah there was a Px 110 earlier on the website but for some reason its not on there anymore. I was already stuck on the Px 120 so I guess I’ll take the plunge and get it!
Well the CDP only has a 32 note polyphony as well are you sure i should get it?
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Sorry but none of the three is a reasonably good piano.
I understand you have a tight budget, but if you want a digital piano you can advance into, I seriously doubt whether you’ll do it with any of these.
For starters, models with small built-in speakers are consistenly awful. Think of it, a decent pair of studio monitors costs about $400. If that’s almost the total cost of the instrument, how good can the speakers be?
The hazy salesman lingo in the brochures "…graded soft touch…" "weighted (or graded) hammer action…", etc. means "cheap plastic keys with springs and metal weights inside". They don’t feel like an acoustic piano. Good digital pianos with realistic action have real wooden keys -but unfortunately you won’t get one for 500 bucks.
The Px-120 is really a toy. You are paying for the auto accompaniment -as a piano player you’ll probably never use it. The YPG-535 looks even worse -with auto-accompaniment and 500 voices is really a cheap synthesizer, not a digital piano. Only 32 voice polyphony might be a serious issue -I know you only have ten fingers, but some digital keyboards use multiple voices per note (up to 4) so you might literally run out of sounds.
Of the three, the CDP doesn;t have many bells and whistles and costs less. If I were restrained by your budget that’s the one I would get. But then again, start saving for a wooden keys model without built-in speakers.
Last edit – answer to Comment: No, the only thing I’m sure is that none of them is the kind of instrument "you can advance into". I said the CDP because it costs a little less and the others have too much toyish stuff you don’t need. If you really are committed to learning the piano, a year from now you will be looking for a better instrument. Sorry.
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Out of those three the PX-120 … a good basic piano _with_ a weighted action and enough polyphony to get by (128 voices v. 32 for the CDP)
That Yamaha doesn’t have weighted keys.