Members Renoir1 Posted December 29, 2012 Members Share Posted December 29, 2012 i would like to learn to play piano, but it's too expensive , so i'm thinking maybe a keyboard tahnks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Meatball Fulton Posted December 29, 2012 Members Share Posted December 29, 2012 What's your budget? Yamaha and Casio both have a range of digital pianos that would be a better choice than their other home keyboards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MuzikB Posted December 29, 2012 Members Share Posted December 29, 2012 Yamaha MX49 or 61, OR, wait to see what pops up at NAMM 2013. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Renoir1 Posted December 29, 2012 Author Members Share Posted December 29, 2012 those seem expensive, i was hoping for around $100 - $200 if possible then, if i get better and like it, i could buy one of better quality Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members McHale Posted December 29, 2012 Members Share Posted December 29, 2012 A good beginner's instrument is one that inspires you to play a lot. If you're going to do it, invest in it. The worst thing a beginning guitar player can do is buy a cheap guitar because they suck and make things much harder than they need to be. A beginning keyboard will have crappy sounds, horrible action, cheap feel, etc. and will NOT be inspiring. Do you want to play a piano? GET A PIANO. If you look around, you can get a good piano for FREE. Check Craigslist. They are on there all the time. I got my piano for free because they were tired of having it tuned every year. -Mc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AnotherScott Posted December 29, 2012 Members Share Posted December 29, 2012 Originally Posted by Renoir1 i would like to learn to play piano, but it's too expensive , so i'm thinking maybe a keyboard If you want to play piano then at least get a keyboard with a weighted action. The cheapest is the Williams Allegro at $300, though Musicians Friend periodically has 15% off coupons (and Guitar Center just had it on sale for $200). Or look for something used, you might come across a good deal on something like a Yamaha P85/P95 of a Casio CDP-100 or PX-anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AnotherScott Posted December 29, 2012 Members Share Posted December 29, 2012 Originally Posted by McHale If you look around, you can get a good piano for FREE. Check Craigslist. They are on there all the time. I got my piano for free because they were tired of having it tuned every year. That's the problem, they're not really free. They will cost money to move and to keep tuned. But I agree, if that's not prohibitive for someone, and they live somewhere where they can play it without disturbing people, that's best! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pogo97 Posted December 29, 2012 Members Share Posted December 29, 2012 Originally Posted by McHale A good beginner's instrument is one that inspires you to play a lot. If you're going to do it, invest in it. The worst thing a beginning guitar player can do is buy a cheap guitar because they suck and make things much harder than they need to be. A beginning keyboard will have crappy sounds, horrible action, cheap feel, etc. and will NOT be inspiring.Do you want to play a piano? GET A PIANO.If you look around, you can get a good piano for FREE. Check Craigslist. They are on there all the time. I got my piano for free because they were tired of having it tuned every year.-Mc thisunless you have friends with moving experience and a truck, moving it will blow your budget and then it will need to be tunedbut you'll have a REAL piano Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tim gueguen Posted December 29, 2012 Members Share Posted December 29, 2012 Meh, I detect a whiff of eau du trollogne about this one. Usually you see these kind of questions coming from newcomers, not guys with 11 thousand posts on HC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ghostpaw Posted December 29, 2012 Members Share Posted December 29, 2012 Originally Posted by Renoir1 i would like to learn to play piano According to your post here.......you already play piano. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members McHale Posted December 29, 2012 Members Share Posted December 29, 2012 Ghostpaw,You rawk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members Robbins Posted December 29, 2012 Members Share Posted December 29, 2012 Roland Stagepiano with a music stand, is cheap and good for learning to play the piano. Or a controller with weighted keys and piano software instrument. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Darkstorm Posted December 30, 2012 Members Share Posted December 30, 2012 Its totally unrealistic to think you'll get a decent keyboard for $100 to $200. At the very least save up a few hundred and try various new and used rompler keyboards in the $400-$600 range. As another said, its dumb for a beggining guitar player to get cheap guitar, same goes for keyboards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MuzikB Posted December 30, 2012 Members Share Posted December 30, 2012 Originally Posted by wesg Lol! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Musicale Posted January 2, 2013 Members Share Posted January 2, 2013 It may be wise to rent a piano until you decide if you want to pursue a lifetime project... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jonathan40 Posted January 2, 2013 Members Share Posted January 2, 2013 $150 will get you a decent Casio keyboard with full-sized non-weighted keys. Check out the CT tone bank series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members zoink Posted January 3, 2013 Members Share Posted January 3, 2013 I think the first mistake beginners make is in buying a beginner's keyboard. Get something that's a step or two above you, and grow into it. Entry level keyboards may sound better than they did a few years ago, but they still sound like {censored} compared to a pro level rompler workstation from 10 years ago. Save up a little and buy a used K2500, or a little more and get a Korg Krome. But yeah, the same advice a good guitar player would give a beginner is the advice I'd give a pianist/keyboardist just starting out. Get a keyboard that was made for pros to buy and sound good. The good news is that you can now buy for $500 what used to cost $4,000 (K2500), and they still sound VERY good. The flip side -- and this is very telling -- is that a cheap Yamaha PSR keyboard or Casio rompler piano honestly doesn't even sound very good when a skilled pianist plays one. Sure, you can tell that the player has skill, but the sound itself can't be helped. Low to mid level consumer keyboards have sampled pianos that sound tinny and thin, and the velocity response is not very expressive, thanks to the cheap keybed and mediocre multi-sampling (usually with no cross-fading between pitch ranges or velocities). Just some food for thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members branig Posted June 13, 2013 Members Share Posted June 13, 2013 With the exception of the first couple of replies, most of these answers are utterly unhelpful or seem to be written by a-holes (incl. the one I'm replying to). It's pathetic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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