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Recommend a keyboard for Trinity grade 3 - 5

  • 17-11-2014 9:53pm
    #1
    BigEejit
    Registered Users Posts: 3,739 ✭✭✭


    My daughter is about to do Trinity keyboard grade 2 exam (using a 14 year old keyboard!) and her music teacher says that she will definitely need a new keyboard for higher grades. Now she recommended a couple of Yamaha keyboards, and amazon shows them as 450 pounds and 699 pounds respectively whereas my budget would be under 200 pounds.

    The requirements are written on the inside of the books and basically grade 3 to 5 needs:
    minimum 5 octaves
    full size keys
    touch sensitivity
    minimum 16-note polyphonic capacity
    a range of individual voices and rhythm styles
    voice change/registration memory
    dual voice/layer
    split point (two different voices simultaneously)

    Anyone faced a similar decision lately that can recommend a cheap keyboard that meets all the requirements? Ideally I'd like to get a known brand, but would consider anything.


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  • #2
    martinedwards
    Registered Users Posts: 2,043 ✭✭✭martinedwards


    get a full sized keyboard.

    our kids were doing piano on a Yamaha clavinova and once they got past grade 4 they needed more than the smaller sized keyboard.

    one bass note hit the off switch!


  • #3
    BigEejit
    Registered Users Posts: 3,739 ✭✭✭BigEejit


    Cheers for that. Just to be clear what do you mean by full sized? I have seen ones with 88 keys but a lot of people say that is too large for learning with.

    The variation in keyboards is just mind boggling, I can see why there would be 3 or 4 sizes of keyboards, but Amazon is showing as many as 14 different key counts.

    I suppose I should have said that she is doing electronic keyboard trinity rather than piano..

    We have been looking at a Yamaha PSR-E343 which has 61 touch sensitive keys, this is a traditional electronic keyboard with all the sounds etc. We have also been looking at a Casio CDP-120 which has 88 keys which are weighted and have hammer action....but it is missing a lot of the keyboard stuff that my daughter has been doing so far....

    Decisions decisions


  • #4
    martinedwards
    Registered Users Posts: 2,043 ✭✭✭martinedwards


    BigEejit wrote: »
    .........but a lot of people say that is too large for learning with.

    I'm guessing the people saying that are people who are selling the keyboards and hoping you'll be back to buy another one in 3 years time.

    a full size is 88 keys. you'll need that for grade 5 and up.

    best to buy it now rather than be really annoyed in a few years time......


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