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keyboard for daughter's lessons

  • 03-12-2013 10:29am
    #1
    osarusan
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    Hi all,

    I'm looking for an electronic keyboard for my daughter. She'll be taking lessons and we want to giver her practice at home too.

    Her teacher recommends an actual piano, but that just isn't going to happen, so the teacher then advised us on keyboards.

    She said that in a lot of electronic keyboards, no matter how hard you hit a key, it makes just the same sound, which isn't very good for somebody beginning lessons, because they don't get a sense of 'how' to touch the keys.

    So, any suggestions of what keyboards will react to different kinds of touches with different sounds?

    I'm in Japan, so there should be a range of them available there hopefully.


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  • #2
    Strings.ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 253 ✭✭Strings.ie


    osarusan wrote: »
    Hi all,



    She said that in a lot of electronic keyboards, no matter how hard you hit a key, it makes just the same sound, which isn't very good for somebody beginning lessons, because they don't get a sense of 'how' to touch the keys.

    That's known a velocity sensitive. So just make sure you get a keyboard that is velocity sensitive.
    I'm in Japan, so there should be a range of them available there hopefully.

    Yamaha, Roland, Casio, Kawai, are all made in Japan and make excellent keyboards and Pianos.
    It really depends on your budget, a basic keyboard would be in the 100-200 Euro. Be careful of the cheaper end as they do not have full size keys. If your daughter is used to playing Piano she needs full size keys.
    If your budget is higher then you can get keyboards that are weighted or semi weighted so the keys feel more like a Piano.
    Also the keyboard size matters. A Piano is 88 key and keyboards can also be 88 key but also much smaller. I wouldn't go below 61 key.

    If you have a budget nearer 1000 Euro you can get a proper Digital Piano. Yamaha Clavinova are a market leader but Roland and Kawai makes excellent digital Pianos too.


  • #3
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,734 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Strings.ie wrote: »
    That's known a velocity sensitive. So just make sure you get a keyboard that is velocity sensitive.



    Yamaha, Roland, Casio, Kawai, are all made in Japan and make excellent keyboards and Pianos.
    It really depends on your budget, a basic keyboard would be in the 100-200 Euro. Be careful of the cheaper end as they do not have full size keys. If your daughter is used to playing Piano she needs full size keys.
    If your budget is higher then you can get keyboards that are weighted or semi weighted so the keys feel more like a Piano.
    Also the keyboard size matters. A Piano is 88 key and keyboards can also be 88 key but also much smaller. I wouldn't go below 61 key.

    If you have a budget nearer 1000 Euro you can get a proper Digital Piano. Yamaha Clavinova are a market leader but Roland and Kawai makes excellent digital Pianos too.

    Thanks a lot, very useful information. I'll try and find out what 'velocity sensitive' is called in Japanese.


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