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Location: Nashville TN. | My nefew wants an 88 key with weighted keys.
Under $1000 . any recomendation?? |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I know absolutely nuthin' about keyboards... Start with eBarf? |
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Location: North Carolina | I have a neighbor who had the same query. I looked around the catalogs of Musicians Friend, American Musical Supply and other on-line retailers and found several in short order. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Ebony and Ivory
Live to gether in perfect harmony.
Side by side of my piano keyboard.
Oh Lord, why don't we? |
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Location: Omaha, NE | I recently bought this Yamaha: http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Yamaha-YDP223-Digital-Piano-...
And here's another option that is in your price range:
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Yamaha-YDP213-88Key-Digital-... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I think "true" weighted keys will be the biggest problem finding an 88 key under $1000 (in the new category).
Should be lots of good choices in the used market. |
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Location: Slightly northwest of Trader Jim | About a year and a half ago I bought my wife a "Casio Privia". 88 weighted keys, along with the typical sound effects. Sounds pretty nice thru the factory speakers. I think I paid about $850. with the stand & shipping. I believe I found it on Amazon.com. Good luck! |
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Location: Winter Haven, FL | I have a Yamaha P70 which I'm very happy with. The keys are weighted, there's 88 of them, and it's in your budget. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | For about 750 he could get a Korg Trinity with weighted keys that would blow his socks off. Used of course. Most of the keyboardists I know have either Korgs or Yamaha's. ... Let me rephrase that ... the two keyboardists I know have Korgs or Yamahas.
As to whether they are "true" weighted or not, I don't know. Velocity sensitive seems to be important too. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | 88 key versions of Korgs & Yamahas are almost always weighted keys.
Excellent suggestion.
I have a Korg TR workstation that is very nice but due to size I opted for the 76 key version vs the weighted 88. |
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Location: Carle Place, NY | How about a (Fender) Rhodes piano? |
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Location: NJ | Rhodes are nice, but they can sound like a "Rhodes", and then they can sound like a . . . "Rhodes" . . .
y'can't get a good, natural "piano" sound out of 'em . . .
They're a "OneTrickPony" (that admittedly, does that ONE "trick" VERY well . . . ) |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I actually went shopping for an electric piano about three weeks ago with and accomplished piano player. Yamaha model was the winner ... In fact I wrote the model numbers down and have them at home. Will post them when I get back this afternoon. |
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Location: NJ | Jeff; did she try that cool little console that you & I saw in Jersey?? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Clifford,
We couldn't find that same model (Casio Privia) in the stores we were looking but, it's my belief, it would have held is own, but I was going from memory and Jackie was definitely hearing/ feeling subtle differences in sound and playability among the different models she was trying that I, was less able to appreciate.
We shopped in "proper" Piano only stores and found the Yamaha portable P140 to be "the best" -retailed at S1000.00
Runner-up was the Yamaha P85 retailing at $600.00 - and probably the best "bang for the buck" |
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| We've got a yamaha.
fantastic. |
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Location: Jax, Fl or lost in Ga woods, again… | I've had a Yamaha for about 5 years,nothing beats the feel of the weighted keys, close to the real acoustic, which is what you want, if they ever sit down to play a piano, also Yamaha has some of the best Grand, sounds going. I have the P120, not the top-of the line, and can be had for under 1K, even the version under the P120 or P130 have the same sounds & feel |
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OT anyone know about keyboards