advice pleasecheap, small, light portable

profshorthair · Post by **profshorthair** » 06 Feb 2006, 16:50

Hi
I play the piano a bit and have a yamaha piano, a Korg Triton and a Fatar 88
note mother keyboard. This is great for home and gigs etc but I stay in
Hotels once or twice a week with my job. Rather then sit in the bar
destroying my liver I thought it would be good to improve my playing.
Obviously I need a portable, light weight cheap keyboard to do this - I
could take my Triton but I would get funny looks and I dont want to leave it
in the car etc...any ideas anyone? I have looked at Yamaha PSRE 203, only
about Ł80, 5 ocatves i think [probably need 5 really maybe get away with 4
for just learning things] ] weighs 4.5 kg and can get a gig bag to put on
shoulder so I dont get too many funny looks at check in? It is supposed to
have a reasonable pinao sound [so they claim] maybe better than the one i
use with my motherboard [Roland U110] Anyone have any ide4as or feedback
thanks

profshorthair · Post by **profshorthair** » 07 Feb 2006, 10:20

thanks for all the replies , i feel overwhlmedby the responses , think ill try a decent forum, bye

nikolas · Post by **nikolas** » 07 Feb 2006, 11:01

I think that patience is not one of your virtues, right?

Now, on what you asked for. For me, I think that 5 ocatves are not enough to practise. But then again it depends on what you're practising. And for me, again, I think that unless you use a sampler and a laptop, you won't get any decent piano sound, unless you pay high bucks and loads of killos to carry around.

Generally a lot of Yamaha PSRs models are decent enough, have weighted keyboard, aftertouch and stuff like that (+more sounds, should you want to experiment).

I hope to have helped you a bit.

Nikolas

PS. When you do find a decent forum, let us know so we can all quit this shitty one and go to the one you found (<-sarcasm!)

profshorthair · Post by **profshorthair** » 07 Feb 2006, 15:47

ha ha cheers for reply - its not such a bad site really - i was just so dissappoonted and feeling lonely coz no onewanted to talkt to me - but now now i have a spring in my step and a twinkle in my eye life couldnt get better than this

Post by **Barrie Heaton** » 07 Feb 2006, 19:10

profshorthair wrote:thanks for all the replies , i feel overwhlmedby the responses , think ill try a decent forum, bye

It could be that most who visit the forum play acoustic and that the site was set up for acoustic pianos.

After a quick look there seems to be very few forum for digital piano the main one is Piano World in the US. We could set a new section in the forum just for digital pianos as we do come number 4 in Google for digital piano forum and number 1 for secondhand digital piano

Barrie,

PianoGuy · Post by **PianoGuy** » 07 Feb 2006, 21:33

Try the Yamaha P60. It's a run-out model, but really good for the price, so could be even cheaper now.