Digital piano for a university
Posted: 03 Jul 2011, 23:07
Having got my acoustic piano requirements nearly sorted, I'm also tasked with finding a suitable digital piano for our music technology dept. This will sit in a small lecture theatre (c.65 seats, low ceiling, little bigger than a typical UK school classroom) and humidity/temperature variations plus a lack of space dictate a digital. It needs to be loud enough without further amplification to fill the small lecture theatre without messing around with speakers. A pair of Genelec 8030s is more than enough for this task (bi-amped two-way, 40Wx2) so I was looking for something with similar amps.
Obviously I'd like something that sounds good, multiple samples, string resonance, at least 64 note polyphonic in stereo, etc... no unnecessary bells or whistles. The piano will get used for only a few lectures each week, and some of those will be minimal usage, plus occasional practice use outside of normal hours, so it's not going to get absolutely hammered. I don't have a budget yet, but I don't want to pay the kind of price you can get a nice U3 for!
I'm looking at the new-ish Yamaha CLP-440 with interest. The last digital I owned was a Technics with about 12 note polyphony but a fairly decent speaker system. I've played more recent ones that have much better samples but much worse speakers.
So - anyone played a 440? Are they likely to have decent enough speakers for a classroom sized room? Should I or could I go up or down a model or two, depending on what the budget turns out to be? Any budget bargains out there?
thanks,
Al
Obviously I'd like something that sounds good, multiple samples, string resonance, at least 64 note polyphonic in stereo, etc... no unnecessary bells or whistles. The piano will get used for only a few lectures each week, and some of those will be minimal usage, plus occasional practice use outside of normal hours, so it's not going to get absolutely hammered. I don't have a budget yet, but I don't want to pay the kind of price you can get a nice U3 for!
I'm looking at the new-ish Yamaha CLP-440 with interest. The last digital I owned was a Technics with about 12 note polyphony but a fairly decent speaker system. I've played more recent ones that have much better samples but much worse speakers.
So - anyone played a 440? Are they likely to have decent enough speakers for a classroom sized room? Should I or could I go up or down a model or two, depending on what the budget turns out to be? Any budget bargains out there?
thanks,
Al