8/22/2011

Digital Keyboards: Make Beautiful Music For A Fraction Of The Cost

By Andrew Strauss Laeddis


Commitment to training, talent and a top notch instrument makes a great pianist. Even the greatest piano virtuoso will find it difficult to reproduce his award winning pieces on a piano that is below par to begin with.

Some individuals who would like to learn how to play the piano are immediately dissuaded by the prices, especially on acoustic ones. If you are a beginner, getting a good quality but less expensive digital keyboard would be a much better option.

Digital keyboards have five general types. Digital pianos are good for beginners because they contain less knobs and buttons which can overwhelm a tutee. Arrangers are loaded with features that allow you to be a one-man band, that is, it can provide you automatic drum, bass and chord accompaniment. Stage pianos, as the term implies are made for those who intend to use it for onstage performances. While not as feature rich as an arranger, the sound it generates is much bolder. Workstations and synthesizers on the other hand are for more advanced piano players. More work can be done on these systems such as sequencing, recording or editing music as well as manipulating waveforms. Because they are the most feature-rich of the bunch they also command the heftiest price tag.

Among the many brands of digital pianos available these days, low-priced but feature-dense Casio pianos remain to be in demand. They are best known for their topnotch beginner pianos which come built in with step-up learning systems. These portable keyboards also have music challenge feature which gives an element of fun to the learning process. High-end Casio pianos also have tri-sensor scaled hammer-action and ivory touch keyboards which gives its users almost the same audible and aesthetic delight of a concert piano.

For beginners, getting the CTK-2100 is a wise decision. It is a good buy at $170 because you already get a 61-key unit which already feature-rich. Tutees will find the voice fingering guide on the CTK-2100 very helpful during practices. It also has the AHL audio technology which reproduces the rich buttery tones of a real grand piano.




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