Best Folk & World Keyboards
The melodica is a fascinating wind instrument, easy to learn and powerfully expressive. Range of over two and one half full octaves for soprano or alto.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I watched a video and followed the instructions; there is a "hit-or-miss" element to the tuning process (filing the reeds) because you can't hear the changes until you put the whole thing back together; then you'll probably need to fine-tune for the notes that you've over- or under-corrected."
"A good instrument but I'm not a great expert, just bought it for fun."
"Great product and fair price."
"I don’t know anything about Melodicas butting it made my young adult son really happy."
"I bought this on a whim because my friends and I were joking about incorporating this into our music to make it more fun."
"worth the price, really good quality."
"Sounds good?"
1.Products of the keys and the body are used food grade ABS non-toxic engineering resin,much healthier and safer. [Perfermance Improvement] 37 key are wider than 32 key in the range, there are three sounds across octaves with exquisite workmanship, clear and nice sound.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Here's what I like: Fun to play and sounds great - See the video for a sound demo."
"4) Its rally so good quality and its really superb I like to say it’s what I spend for this is worth it ... 5) Quality of material is so nice.. 6) its so nice and comfortable to hold. 7) its coming with so nice hard cover so its wont damage while traveling."
"It feels more professional (It is still a bit of a silly instrument compared to orchestra style instruments). Note that it is a bit bigger than the 32 note variant, so not exactly 'throw in your backpack sized.'."
"Oh what fun."
"For the price I was expecting something sort of cheap feeling with marginally good sound, but fun."
"This Melodica is wonderful."
"There are a lot of videos online about how to tune a melodica, and unfortunately, this one wouldn't go back together after he attempted to tune it."
"The instrument is pretty much as I expected and the case is quite nice, however, it arrived severely out of tune."
Yamaha Band and Orchestral Division announces its new line of Pianicas. Produce clear, full tones with solid projection and feature anti-corrosive reeds, providing stable intonation.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"While it can be used for serious music making, I think the best use is just for fun, or for finding out if your child is really interested in learning the piano without having to buy something that takes up a lot of space, and that costs a bit more."
"The smaller key sizes take a bit of getting used to but it works well and plays pretty much on key."
"We bought this as we have just started piano and thought this would be a fun addition to take with us when we are traveling, camping, etc.."
"I'm really pleased with this instrument, the construction of it is really solid and it feels like a 'pro' quality build even though it is made of plastic."
"easy to just play/toy with, and kind of silly real instrument I bought on a lark that I will learn to play seriously or just play with."
"Great instrument in its own right but also great for sorting out musical ideas and problems."
"He loves to play the piano so this was a perfect fit."
"Good, solid instrument with very good tone and in tune!"
Best Accordions
Style: Accordion. This is a great way for a child to start to learn the accordion in a simple and easy way. Sounds and feels like the real thing.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"The quality of this piano horn is awesome, I don't see this breaking for a very long time."
"Fine quality; it's definitely an "instrument" and not a "toy"."
"The quality seems to be ok but I don't see it lasting too long with 7 year olds taking it from home to school everyday."
"I expect it is like hearing a new violinist learning to play, eventually you know they could be good enough to play a concerto, but for now your ears are just hurt and are confused."
"The only thing is that these colored balls inside it, not sure what is the purpose, but the kids always want to rip it a part get the balls out!"
"These hand bells sound wonderful and they are beautiful to look at with their bright colors. With older children it would be quite possible to form an ensemble and have four to eight children sound the bells to make melodies."
"But, the bottom flared piece falls off and it won't play without that being attached."
"The one I received had no markings on it to indicate that it was truly a Schylling accordion."
Best Concertinas
Specifications: Material: Red Pine. Color: Red/ Green/ Blue/ Dark Blue(Optional). Item Size: Approx. Anglo-style concertina accordion.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"It's a great buy for introductory concertina and the value slightly exceeds the price, I would recommend it, keeping in mind that it only has one accidental (F# 3 8va)."
"The two scenarios I believe this instrument should be purchased are: if you aren't sure that you'll like playing the concertina and want to try it out, or if you just want something to squeeze and goof around with your friends. I bought this, played it for a week and decided I liked playing the concertina enough to upgrade to a brand a few hundred dollars more expensive."
"The sound is clear and loud, it's fairly easy to play, maybe the tuning's not perfect but it's no worse than what you'd get out of a Sears Catalog a century ago which adds to its charm."
"Very nice."
"Well made."
"Product is very good."
"Beautiful, well-crafted, good sound, and perfect size."
"Within 24 hours of receiving my concertina I had one button than all of a sudden stopped producing it's note, and both of the CHEAP fake leather straps broke on either end."
Best Harmoniums
--The Mugig 10 hole diatonic harmonica in the key of. C that is ideal for students and it is the most. popular type of harmonica used today by far. Well made, good quality, sleek and sounds great.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I'm nervous I may change my opinion in the future, because a lot of the reviews have me nervous the lower note holes might stop working."
"I purchased this product because myself am a musician and I always wanted to try different musical instrument, and I thought harmonica might be an affordable choice and shouldn't be too hard to learn."
"[10:44 AM, 2/3/2018] Adam Bouskila: -Works great, and can’t see a product with quality this great at this price."
"The number one item on my kiddos Christmas list (so random!)."
"Cute little harmonica with a solid compacted case."
"My special needs daughter plays this day and night - night and day.....sighs."
"Beautiful and well made."
"Nice Harmonica."
Best Melodicas
The melodica is a fascinating wind instrument, easy to learn and powerfully expressive. Range of over two and one half full octaves for soprano or alto.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Great product and fair price."
"I don’t know anything about Melodicas butting it made my young adult son really happy."
"I bought this on a whim because my friends and I were joking about incorporating this into our music to make it more fun."
"worth the price, really good quality."
"Sounds good?"
"Very nice case, very well made sounds great!"
Best Thumb Pianos
Mbira background: Material: [body: Solid KOA Wood] + [keys: Carbon Steel].
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I wish I could give this product more than five stars."
"Great sound and appears of high quality."
"Excellent sound, good volume, came in good tune (none too far off the note), light weight, fast shipment."
"It sounds nice and clear in a nice presentation."
"I got this for my boyfriend and he loved the hole."
"Plays wonderfully and beautifully crafted!"
"Beautiful."
"I used to play the harmonica and the piano, found them to be fun to play but obnoxious to everyone else late in the evening."
Best Electronic Keyboards
Keyboard pack includes a pair of Samson HP30 closed-cup headphones, x-style stand, and power supply.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon":). I asked around a lot to finally decide what to buy, since I was a rookie myself. The keys are not like the ones on the cheap keyboards (empty underneath), and you could really get a good sound out of them by pressing hard, or play a soft, smooth tune. Other perks include a USB outlet, which means you can connect the piano to your ipod or pc, great sampling system, and a song bank."
"Casio is the perfect next step for anyone looking to start creating their own music at home. It has so many great features and even though we have been jammin' on this keyboard for a few weeks now, I feel like we haven't even scratched the surface with what it can do. Features: Sound EFX Sampler. Built-In Microphone. Step-up learning system. 400 Keyboard Voices. 48 Note Polyphony (so you don't have to worry about dropping notes). 150 Rythms. 110 Built-in Songs. USB MIDI. casio keyboard. What makes this keyboard go a step further is the USB MIDI connection which allows you to hook this digital piano up to a Mac or Windows computer. To help them learn, there is even the Step Up Lesson system which shows players which keys to push. My kids love the microphone part of this keyboard where they can say something and have their voice be changed into silly tones."
"Just as you see in picture."
"Since Xmas I have received photo after photo of the keyboard being used."
"Bought for my 6 year old grandson for Christmas and he absolutely loves it."
"So called educational CD is whole another adventure... just to make it clear I'm an IT person and tried the CD or what should be educational CD...to runt it on multiple machines/PC."
"Arrived quickly, was able to easily wrap for a gift."
"This is a great value for the price."
Best MIDI Keyboards & Equipment
Includes VIP3.0 - the ground-breaking, award-winning music software platform that provides musicians and composers with a powerful hands-on control solution for their virtual instrument and virtual effect collection.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Unlike a synthesizer, MIDI controllers do not produce sound without software. So after you've downloaded the software and plug it in, you will still not have any sound generated until you've set everything up properly and loaded sounds onto the pads. It would be nice for them to take the time to make more tutorials. Everything I found just had to do with setting up the software, nothing really about HOW to actually use it. I am still learning to use this but it has gotten significantly funner to use as I have learned more about it and found sounds I like."
"A unique feature is the 4 way joystick for modulation and pitch control. It really helps keep the size of the keyboard down since you don't have to include those bulkier pitch and modulation wheels. Of course this is not the manufacturer's fault, they list "mini keys" in the first description of the product so I am not going to knock any stars for that. But the upside is that it makes the overall footprint very small, smaller than my computer keyboard infact. I think would be really neat if they made this same controller with normal sized keys. They make one similar (Akai Professional MPK25 25-Key USB MIDI Keyboard Controller with MPC Pads) but it has a lot more going on and is $80 more."