Digital Pianos - Buying One Today

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Which Brand of Digital Piano Should I Buy?

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Casio Digital Pianos - You Never Seen Better Pianos at These Prices

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Digital Piano Buyer's Guide - How to Choose

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The digital piano market is not the same as it was just ten years ago. New, unexpected brand names have emerged as quality competitors. Features that were once thought unobtainable for less than a couple thousand dollars are now available on keyboards for less than a few hundred dollars.If you've ever wanted to learn to play the piano, but budget and space are constraints for you, a basic digital piano with realistic weighted keys and piano tones could be just for you. Many modern electronic pianos fulfill this criteria and come with standard additional bonus features such as headphone connections, allowing recording of the tunes you play, additional instrumental tones, as well as layering or distorting tones with special effects. Of course, digital pianos require no tuning at all. All this makes it an extremely attractive option compared to the traditional acoustic piano.

Now more than ever is a great time to grab a digital piano as a suitable alternative to an upright acoustic or grand piano. Purists will insist to their deathbeds that nothing can ever quite match the authentic touch, weight, or resistance of the ivory keys, or the booming, resonant sound produced by the hammers of a traditional piano, but modern piano makers are certainly trying their best to prove these people wrong, and they seem to be succeeding more often than not. Anyone looking for a modern piano today won't be left wanting for choice. From Yamaha to Casio to Roland to Korg to Kawai (interestingly, all are Japanese companies!), each brand has their own separate families of pianos. The list of differences (usually related to appearance or portability) between each family shrinks with each passing year. Expensive Yamaha Clavinova features can now be found in the more affordable and supposedly more basic Yamaha P-Series of pianos. It becomes almost pointless to keep up with the minute differences between each family of pianos, especially as the more basic entry-level pianos become increasingly more sophisticated over the years.

Yamaha used to be the "go-to" brand for general-purpose or entry-level pianos. If you wanted more realistic sound or feel, Korg and Roland were notoriously more expensive but definitely "worth it". The new kid on the block today, Casio, certainly seems to stick out like a sore thumb from the rest of the gang who've been in the music industry for quite a while. Ask anyone what they think of when they hear the name "Casio", and exquisitely-designed pianos would be far from their mind. Electronic gadgets, calculators, watches, even toy plastic keyboards are more commonly associated with Casio. In recent years, however, Casio's new technological advancements in achieving an affordable level of touch and feel realism has catapulted it from the realm of toy keyboard assemblers to the big league of competitive piano manufacturers. That's not to say the other brands are sitting on their laurels, but Casio should most certainly not be discounted offhand when considering a purchase of a good piano today.

The piano is no doubt a beautiful instrument, both aesthetically and acoustically. Perhaps nothing can ever truly beat the beauty and majesty of an acoustic piano and the respect it commands, whether at home or on stage. Digital pianos, however, have come a long way, and definitely deserve due consideration, especially as technology advances and they become ever more affordable.

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This article is aimed at those of you who know a thing or two about digital pianos already and have already carried out a little bit of research. You are almost certainly aware that digital pianos have improved vastly over the years.You have also probably come to the conclusion that a digital piano will cost considerably less than an acoustic piano.You're also probably aware that some offer more features than you would get with an upright, such as more sounds than the traditional grand piano sound, maybe recording facilities, and the ability to hook up to a computer and to music sequencing software.

All these conclusions would be and are correct, however you are now presented with questions as to which brand to choose and which model. The main brands to choose from in the UK are Yamaha, Roland, Casio, Kawai, Kurzwell and Korg. I would include Classenti as well but you won't find any shop where you can try them out as they sell direct to the public rather than through retailers. So unless you already know of them or have played one its going to be difficult to create a unbiased judgement for you to base your opinions on.

If I were investing my own hard earned money on a digital piano for myself, or as a present I would want to see it, touch it and hear it and I wouldn't spend my money until I had invested some time trying out as many of the different brands I have mentioned. Don't be pushed into buying a digital piano by a pushy salesman, and accept their word as being the final word.There is no right or wrong answer here. If you were to choose the brand that is most popular, Yamaha would come top. Yamaha have dominated the digital market for quite a few years now. It doesn't necessarily make them the best choice though, even though their digital pianos are very good indeed.

If you were to choose the brand with the best build quality and arguably the most realistic piano sound, Roland would be the top choice. Roland use Steinway grand piano samples to create their piano sounds, which is the preferred choice amongst many professional pianists and musicians.Kurzwell and Kawai sit somewhere in the middle in terms of sound quality, price, reliability and quality of build. Casio are an interesting one as they are certainly at the entry level when it comes to all of the aforementioned factors I would look at when buying a digital piano. Based on the price you would pay, Casio are never going to pretend to be anywhere near to the same standard as Yamaha or Roland pianos. However, some us are restricted by budget and Casio are definitely worth a look at.A few pointers worth mentioning if you are looking at the Casio digital pianos. These would strictly be for beginners only. For intermediate and advanced players, the sound and build quality just won't be enough.

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There are pianos of different types that are available at the local musical instrument shop. Pertaining to the digital pianos there are a lot of different types of colors, styles and shapes that are available. There are some varieties of pianos available that are built with many hundred to buttons.

Among the different types of pianos that are available the Yamaha digital piano is one of the most well known ones. The heartening fact about the Yamaha digital musical instruments is that the sound sample used is taken from the concert grand piano. The model of this brand of musical instrument is pound 989. A discount of twenty percent can be availed while purchasing such digital musical instruments over the internet.

Casio digital are one of the other well known pianos that are known. There has been a vast improvement with respect to such pianos in the last few years. Compared to the Yamaha pianos it is much inferior but the main positive aspect is that they are a lot cheaper as compared to the other models. The rating is such type of pianos is a total of seven points to the total allotted ten points.

Apart from the Yamaha and the Casio digital instruments, the other well known is the Roland pianos. The uniqueness about such type of pianos is that piano tones are of supreme quality as compared to the other versions of pianos. The source of the sampling of the sound has been taken from the Steinway grand instrument digital instruments. The price of this type of model starts from pound 899. One is sure to get a much proper deal with such type of digital instruments from a local music store. They are considered as high end pianos as they are mainly used at the stage concerts. The performance is much inferior as compared to the Casio, Roland and the Yamaha.