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Buying the Right Digital
Piano (Keyboard)
by Loraine Plante
Is it
possible to get by with piano lessons on
a keyboard? Parents and students
frequently ask me why not a keyboard?
We have a keyboard, and I would like to
take piano lessons. My first questions
are: Is your keyboard an 88 key,
piano-weighted keyboard? Do you have
pedals, or at least a damper pedal for
it?
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Electric
pianos often have fewer than the 88 keys
found on an acoustic piano. The common
sizes are 49 keys, 64 keys, and 73
keys. I have found that the keys are
often smaller than your acoustic piano,
and are not weighted, meaning they are
easily pressed.
Often
people will go out and purchase a piano
by asking the salesman for a
“keyboard.” They walk out of the store
after spending hundreds of dollars with
what they think is the right
instrument. The key is to ask for a
“digital grand piano with weighted
keys.” Then the salesman will know what
you want, and you won’t spend much more.
(When you click on one of the links
above and get to the list of keyboards
offered, make sure you choose one that
is described as a "digital grand piano
with weighted keys.")
Here are
some of the common practices I have
found with students with keyboards.
Often times, the batteries wear out and
the child doesn’t get to practice during
that week. Adapters are available for
most of these keyboards, but they are
not always accessible to the child when
needed. The keyboard gets moved around
and the child doesn’t have a quiet place
to practice. The keyboard sits on a
desk, or a bed, or a chest-a-drawers, or
is under the bed. The discipline for
practicing just loses its appeal.
Learning an instrument takes practice,
consistency and determination. Parents
play an important role in the success of
their child(ren), and having an adequate
instrument in a study friendly setting
to practice on is the first step to this
success.
It is
crucial to have an acoustic piano or a
digital piano with eighty-eight weighted
keys and three pedals to practice on. A
keyboard just will not do. Keyboards
may look like pianos, but they are very
different. Keyboards do come in a
variety of sizes and are more for
synthesizer fun or play. They are not
actual pianos. Pianos or keyboard
weighted pianos react to touch.
Therefore, you get the percussiveness
that is the reason the piano got its’
original name back in the 1700’s. It
was first named the “pianoforte” for its
ability to give its players and audience
the range of dynamics (loud and soft)
that the harpsichords and clavichords
could not.
When a
keyboard student comes to lesson and
learns the difference in sound and touch
from an electric keyboard to the
digital/or acoustic piano, they become
disenchanted. A keyboard is just not
the same as a piano. Keyboards don’t
have pedals, and they can’t create the
loud and soft with touch. The students
that do continue piano study are the
one’s that eventually get a full 88 key
weighted digital piano or an acoustic
piano; and it makes a big difference
with their progress, technique, and
practice.
Get a digital grand piano with weighted
keys for as little as $399!
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