What is the best digital piano or keyboard for me?
I just found out I have been accepted to boarding school, and I would like to continue to play piano (I have been playing for about eight years). I need a keyboard or digital piano that will fit well in a dorm room. It needs to have pedals,weighted keys, authentic sound and be under $1000. What type would be the best? (It doesn’t have to have a lot of fancy features, just do what a normal piano can do)
If you give up the weighted key option, and go for synth action, then take a look at the M-Audio 88. My husband has a gorgeous Steinway downstairs, but for the classical music weddings and other such gigs we play (certainly not concerts! Those have to be a really fine grand!) then we take this. It has two pedals (sustain and sostenuto!), weighs 17 pounds, and has decent piano sounds – not all the outer-space stuff you do not need. You can listen with headphones, or run it thru an amp. Please get a good stand – one with four good legs, not an X stand. Musicians Friend has one for around $85 that folds to a letter L, but opens into two Ys connected with a bar – very stable, and you can even put a shett of wood on it to make a table for extra guests. I bought one for my school – adjustable in almost every parameter, can hold a big mixer, etc. Aldo get an adjustable bench – you can get a 4-leg crankup (artist) bench for less than $100 – same place. Again, beats the X-leg bench. If you do not like the pedal that comes with it ( small, square, if I remember – we have a tons of extra things here) then get traditionally-shaped pedals. Place a conventional GOOD folding music stand in front, and get good lighting that clips on. You will be all set!
We own 5 electric keyboards and a fine Steinway squaretail A – and of course they cannot be compared – but for what they are,a decent electric keyboard beats a crappy acoustic piano.
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