Best Home Digital Pianos
1 Yamaha P45 88-Key Weighted Action Digital Piano with Sustain Pedal and Power Supply, Standard, Black
Style: P45 |. Color: Black |. Configuration: Digital Piano. GHS weighted action is heavier in the low end and lighter in the high end, just like an acoustic piano.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"It comes in a box with heavy duty cardboard, the weight of the piano is light enough to carry easily. You can change the reverb type and depth all kinds of ways, as well as transpose, fine tune, octave shift, split function, double voices, etc. I missed this on Black Friday when it went down to $299, and back up the next day (you snooze you lose), so I had been eyeing the price off and on, until last week. Another popular shopping website (starts with a J) also had a 20% off promo so I ended up making the final purchase outside of Amazon, which for me, came to a total of $323 shipped. The built in speakers are not the loudest in volume but I like that they face down out of the bottom of the piano, so it sounds less like a plastic toy keyboard, and sort of echoes off the floor or what have you. Especially after watching it for 4 months before finally buying it (at a killer deal I might add). An exquisite addition to any home studio, and surely a star on the stage."
"I play on a grand piano during my lessons, so I've had many opportunities over the past few months to compare this keyboard with the real thing, and I am dissatisfied enough that I'm currently shopping for something better. This makes it hard to develop good technique, and pretty much everything you play isn't going to sound well balanced or have interesting dynamics."
"**UPDATE** In the middle of lessons and recital season, our piano is currently being held captive by a local repair shop. Yamaha would neither accept a return or make a trade, nor would they send a loaner; taking the piano to our local repair shop was the only option. We are now in for the cost of the piano and the transport to the repair shop, out for the cost of lessons and have a child with a recital looming who cannot practice. The local shop has been disparaging about Yamaha products and customer service and has no date for return of the piano as they "wait for parts." The Yamaha representative told me a) I never should order from Amazon as they would have dealt with this differently if I'd bought directly from them (I'm sure Amazon will be thrilled to hear this) and b) it's very common for consumer products to be sent out for repair before replacements. But in Yamaha's world, there is no courtesy and there is certainly no courtesy piano. Minus the cost of transport in a hired car x4 (we are in a major city and walk everywhere), minus our child's prepaid piano lessons (she made due on a janky old keyboard with missing keys in the interim---thank goodness we happened to have access to that, thanks friend) and minus time and effort dealing with a pretty crabby company. In fact, I will likely never recommend ANY Yamaha products. Yamaha: treat your customers RIGHT."
The DGX-660 provides a dedicated virtual space where you can choose from a variety of pianos and acoustic settings, creating your personalized practice or performance environment. Three convenient presets are provided for different vocal performance situations. Yamaha DGX-660 Portable Grand Electric Piano (Black) Knox Audio Full-Size 19-Inch Piano Bench Piano Sustain Pedal Knox KN-KDC88 88 Key Keyboard Dust Cover Focus on Piano - A Concise Approach to Learning & Playing (with CD) FastTrack Keyboard 1 DVD Owner's Manual Data List Keyboard Stand Footswitch Music Rest AC Power Adapter (PA-150 or an equivalent recommended by Yamaha) Warranty Online Member Product Registration. Yamaha DGX-660 88 Key digital piano features Pure CF Sound Engine faithfully reproduces the tone of a meticulously sampled and highly acclaimed Yamaha concert grand piano.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"The bottom bass octave end sounds a little heavy to me on Natural Grand, but all the other octaves all the way up are very true to my acoustic pianos. I love, absolutely love, the fact that I can have this in our upstairs sound studio and that recording me playing is as easy as plugging in the cable to Reaper on the computer or, alternatively, using a live mic or running it through the sound board and the PA. That part is awesome. The black keys are a little narrower than I'm used to on my acoustic pianos, and a bit more slippery than either my plastic keyed Gulbranson or my 1907 upright grand with its ivory and ebony. I may have to resort to putting a bit of black athletic tape on the keys because of finger slip, but, otherwise, it's a REALLY great machine with a very realistic action and touch."
"Exactly as advertised, with the addition of a bonus sustain pedal!"
"This is a very good piano for my 7 year old son to practice."
"Amazing sound quality."
"Amazing."
"Wonderful instrument."
"The bench is hard to assemble, parts didn't fit also there were no instructions in pkg for bench."
Color: Black |. Size: Piano Only |. Configuration: Standalone. Play a chord and the Pianist Style gives you a full piano accompaniment.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"For playing middle C as 16th notes, it starts to get muddy around 120 with somewhat sloppy technique (but is fine on good technique), becomes significantly more difficult to play around 160, and becomes almost impossible at 200 even with the best technique. A note played and held without pedal sounds different from a note played and held with pedal. If you press the pedal, play a note, release the note, press the note again without making a sound, and release the pedal, the note will still be sustained. However, if you hold down one key without making a sound and play the same note an octave away (and release), the key will not sound, suggesting that sympathetic resonance is only simulated locally without regards to other keys which are pressed. This keyboard is for beginners who want a piano with realistic action but don't want to shell out thousands for an acoustic before deciding whether to continue learning piano, or advanced amateurs who used to play piano growing up but have now moved out and can't fit a real piano in their new place or justify the expense. We got an upright piano about 2-3 years into my learning, and before that I was playing on an unweighted Yamaha that couldn't even produce dynamics."
"By the way, I now hold the record for receiving the largest package at the post office."
"I love the built in metronome which is essential for practice on so many instruments. I am slightly annoyed there isn’t an old school midi port, but that is because I have an old midi module."
"This keyboard was worth every penny because it has the look and the feel of a real piano."
"I thought that this piano would be worth the money but in the long run it was definitely, although a little bit of instruction would be nice on how to assemble the Knox accessories."
"The weighted keys feels just like a real piano."
"I love this piano, it works great and sounds great."
Best Stage Digital Pianos
Style: Professional |. Color: Black |. Configuration: Digital Piano. Impressive Piano Voices Reproduce the Sensation of Playing a Concert Grand Piano.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"PROS: - This piano comes fully equipped with some more than capable speakers (be sure to use sound boost when you don't have headphones attached - it really brings out the crispness in the upper ranges). - The piano also includes plenty of sounds to have fun and play around with (and they are all top notch quality!). Plus, there is no other digital piano on the market that offers this type of sound for a better price - the p255 is number one on all charts in its class, and for good reason. CONS: - I sort of expected there to be a micro headphone jack that could be used with your average headphones, but you actually need to buy a 6.35mm adapter like this: Monoprice 107139 6.35mm Stereo Plug to 3.5mm Stereo Jack Adaptor, Gold Plated but it's no big deal when it's only 3 dollars. And yeah, while it's very stable and sturdy, it just makes a very slight creaking noise when playing hard (not really a problem with headphones but idk) its just a tiny little thing that bugs me a bit. Not eBay, or any other site where people sell them used, because you lose your warranty coverage altogether when you buy from third-party unlicensed Yamaha sellers. Personally, your best bet is to buy a package that includes the stand, seat, pedal, etc."
"Good keyboard so far."
"During those two weeks between, I spent A LOT of time with acoustic pianos in stores. Having the experience of touching the keys on a Yamaha true Grand C3, I discovered a few things between "the competitors". The black keys on the real Grands, whether wax, polish or materials were "stickier" than the P255. I didn't find this result to be true of the Casio, whose sound I totally don't like, or the Roland touch, which was "weird". It terms of tough touch, Casio was the "thickest" although other more "Hanon" types might love it. I got a gentleman at George's Music to plug in the Peavey stereo 12" monitors and the sympathetic vibration I felt in my fingers with the Grand, I could now feel all over my arms, face and hands! It wasn't loud, it was FULL--as if I stuck my head under the hood of the Grand and the strings were vibrating inches away. As an experience, the stereo monitors were "more authentically warm" than the acoustic piano. What was totally cool was hearing the digital recording of the hammers striking the strings, the degree of gentleness the sustain pedal was able to attain. I think Ragtime would sound better on the Casio but I want something which can play Chopin, Liszt, Mozart..."
"It wasn't until I then set up the yamaha P255B and hit the first keys that my reverence for my old friend disappeared and I had the thought that I should have just chucked it over the side of the deck."