Advice needed for buying a Digital Piano!!!
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advice on digital piano
did you get anywehere with your post? would appreciate any advice you were given...
Re: Advice needed for buying a Digital Piano!!!
It's really subjective.Daemongod wrote:Hello all.....
What she cares most is a good and convincing piano sound and good keys action,she doesn't care about extra sounds or fancy technical stuff.
Gem, Yamaha, roland, kawai, technics all make digital pianos, some like one, some like others.
Straw polls will show you mostly sales figures, which means yamaha because people own them, and perhaps one or two played
a few different ones. You won't go wrong I guess - you could stop reading and buy one
My personal opinion is that Gem have the best sound at the moment, but others will disagree [even if they haven't heard one
]. The reason for that is fancy technical stuff though Which you can't really escape, aside from a couple of models from gem and yamaha with real acoustic actions that are way over your budget, all of the models have extra sounds - because the manufs all copy each other.
Best action is probably the models that have real acoustic actions [like the yamaha grandtouch], but they are more than £1400. The actions on other digital pianos are subjective - basically - Roland use their own which tend to vary across the range, Yamaha use their own and it tends to be the same across the range. Others tend to use fatar but the fatar action varies from manuf to manuf.
Next you want to consider whether you want a stage piano or a furniture model. Furniture models tend to have speakers / amps and 3 pedals and cost a bit more - there's usually an equiv. stage piano with the same specs though.
Stage pianos either have no amp / speakers, or smaller built in ones and often only 1 pedal, but some have pedal boards with 3 or you can buy extra pedals. Generally speaking, if you buy decent monitor speakers you can arguably get a better sound than you will from the furniture ones, but with a stand as well, together that might cost more than the furniture model.
You really have to try as many as possible.