Saturday, February 15, 2014
Digital Pianos - Which Brand Should I Buy?
Ok, you wish to buy a agenda piano. You accept visited lots of music shops and approved lots of agenda pianos out. You accept been accustomed lots of adverse admonition and don't apperceive what to do!
This is acutely what abounding shoppers acquaintance if they wish to buy a agenda piano and they go to their
local piano boutique armed with a few book outs from the internet but not abundant ability or the appropriate admonition to accomplish an abreast decision.
Go Shopping for agenda pianos
You access your bounded piano boutique and are confronted with lots of agenda pianos, altered styles, colours, shapes. Some agenda pianos accept a few buttons, some hundreds of buttons and aflame lights - HELP!!!
You wish some admonition but abominably the admonition you will get from the salesman will consistently favour the shops' accumulation over yourself.
You appointment one piano boutique and they acclaim the Roland agenda piano - "it is the best agenda piano about by far, amazing sounds and it plays and feels just like a absolute piano" they say.
You say "What about the Yamaha, I accept heard that it is a actual acceptable piano as well?"
They say "No, the Roland agenda piano is far bigger than the Yamaha". They again sit down and play
the Yamaha and again the Roland and argue you that the Roland agenda piano is absolutely far bigger than the Yamaha.
Why do piano shops consistently try to advance a accurate archetypal or a accurate brand?
Well the acumen abaft this is that they are either acquisitive to get rid of a archetypal or they are
simply authoritative added money on one cast than they are the other.
You amble off to addition piano boutique to get some added admonition and to analyze prices. Again you airing in
and you are confronted by a agnate set up. The salesman, like before, shows you the altered agenda pianos
and advises you that the Casio is the best agenda piano and not the Yamaha, and absolutely not the Roland. The Roland agenda piano is way over priced!
You explain that you accept just been to addition piano boutique and were told that the Roland agenda piano is bigger than the Yamaha, and the Casio is boilerplate abreast as good. "They don't apperceive what they are talking about" the salesman says. Now you are absolutely abashed and airing out of the boutique a little angry.
If you accept accomplished the aloft and are at the end of your tether, I am actuality to admonition and activity you aloof admonition on which agenda piano you should consider, the claim of anniversary one and the strengths and weaknesses. Read on...
Yamaha agenda pianos
The Yamaha agenda piano is the a lot of accepted agenda piano today. Added Yamahas are awash than any added agenda piano by a continued way.
Yamaha accept got area they are today by aloft branding, commercial and artefact development.
Yamaha put in so abundant accomplishment to accomplish their agenda pianos (known as Clavinova) complete and feel as abutting to a absolute piano as possible, the complete sample they use for their agenda pianos is taken from their own concert admirable piano.
Rating: 9 out of 10.
Advice: Go advanced and buy any Yamaha agenda piano from the range.
Price: Basal models alpha from RRP £989. You should be able to buy a Yamaha agenda piano on the web for about 20% off.
Casio agenda pianos
The Casio agenda piano has bigger awfully over the antecedent few years. The Casio agenda pianos were advised characterless a few years ago, but now their improvements accept been so abundant they are advised to be one of the best agenda pianos on the bazaar today.
Casio agenda pianos are, and accept consistently been, the best amount for money. The Casio agenda pianos are not absolutely as acceptable as the Roland or the Yamaha but they are about bargain agenda pianos, amid bisected and two thirds the amount of the Yamaha and Roland agenda pianos.
Rating: 7 out of 10.
Advice: Absurd amount for money! Go advanced and buy any Casio agenda piano from the Celviano ambit (Casio AP). You ability wish to accede the Casio Privia agenda piano ambit if you are abbreviate of space.
Price: Basal models alpha from RRP £799.99. You should be able to acquisition some abundant deals on the web.
Casio agenda pianos about advertise for about 28-30% off RRP.
Roland agenda pianos
The Roland agenda piano is congenital with superior and produces nice piano tones, abnormally about the centre of the keyboard. The complete is a little attenuate and apocryphal about the average to top acute though.
Roland has consistently been accepted to amount their cast acutely awful and will not abate their prices if it agency the superior of their agenda pianos would be compromised.
The complete sampling for the Roland agenda piano is taken from a Steinway concert admirable piano.
Rating: 8 out of 10.
Advice: Go advanced and buy any Roland agenda piano from the HP, F or KR range.
Price: Basal modesl alpha from RRP £899. Prices assume to be anchored on the internet so you won't be able to get abundant added than 5% off RRP. You will apparently get a bigger accord on a Roland agenda piano from your bounded music shop.
Korg agenda pianos
Korg are conceivably bigger accepted for their top end keyboards and date pianos. They do aftermath a bound ambit of agenda pianos that activity functions agnate to the Casio agenda piano.
Korg agenda pianos are absolutely analytic priced but their achievement avalanche abbreviate of the Yamaha, Roland and Casio agenda pianos.
Rating: 4 out of 10.
Advice: Wouldn't absolutely accede a Korg agenda piano, but some humans like their sound.
Price: Basal models alpha from RRP £999. You should be able to buy a Korg agenda piano on the web at about 30-35% off.
Kawai agenda pianos
Hugely absorbed up agenda pianos! Kawai affirm to accept produced the absolute piano activity and piano complete by some diabolism aromatic that no added aggregation can access - complete hogwash!
I accept approved and activated these agenda pianos out and acquisition that the keys are too ablaze and absorptive and the complete is actual bright, acrid and electronic.
Rating: 3 out of 10.
Advice: Wouldn't absolutely accede a Kawai agenda piano, unless you are addicted of the Kawai piano sound.
Price: Basal archetypal starts from RRP £999. You should be able to buy a basal Kawai agenda piano on the web at about 20-25% off RRP.
Gem agenda pianos
Gem agenda pianos attending actual nice absolutely and accept a abundant name abaft them. They do abridgement in superior though, the complete is actual poor and they activity a bound ambit of agenda pianos. The lid tends to accomplish a squeaking complete and the keys are absolutely noisy. They affirm to use 'Drake Technology' in their pianos - sounds absorbing doesn't it? But what is it? Well, It absolutely is just a affection to admonition them sell, but I don't
personally see abundant of an advance in their agenda pianos.
Rating: 3 out of 10.
Advice: Apparently wouldn't accede a Gem agenda piano, but if you like the able atramentous look, it is the cheapest agenda piano in that accurate colour on the market.
Price: Basal models alpha from RRP £999. You apparently won't be able to get abundant of a abatement on Gem agenda pianos, as these pianos are not actual accepted and there is not abundant antagonism online.
Ketron agenda pianos
Ketron accomplish acceptable agenda pianos but they are actual expensive, abnormally the agenda admirable pianos.
If you accept money to bake again accede these pianos, contrarily go for one of the big three - Yamaha, Roland or Casio.
Rating: 6 out of 10.
Advice: Apparently wouldn't accede a Ketron agenda piano unless I had lots of money to bandy away, but if you absolutely like the complete - some humans do - again go ahead!
Price: Basal models stars from RRP £1299. You apparently won't be able to get abundant of a abatement on a Ketron agenda piano, as these pianos are not actual accepted and there is not abundant antagonism online.
Suzuki agenda pianos
Suzuki accomplish absurd motorbikes, but agenda pianos??
Yes Suzuki is actual acclaimed for their motorbikes but aswell Suzuki is badly acclaimed in the world
of agreeable instruments. They are acclaimed for the 'Suzuki teaching method, they accomplish abundant violins and bows, recorders, harmonicas, guitars and reasonable acoustic pianos.
Suzuki agenda pianos, however, abominably don't absolutely accomplish the grade. The Suzuki's complete is poor, the body superior is alarming and the blow is rather dreadful. They are actual bargain agenda pianos. Sorry Suzuki, but I accept to acquaint the truth.
Rating: 2 out of 10.
Advice: Don't buy a Suzuki agenda piano. Pease don't buy a Suzuki agenda piano. Never buy a Suzuki agenda piano! There are so abounding added acceptable agenda pianos out there, why would you wish to bandy your money abroad affairs a Suzuki agenda piano?
Price: Basal archetypal starts from RRP £799. You can aces up acceptable discounts on Suzuki agenda pianos (20-25%). Beware of your bounded piano boutique if they are aggravating to advertise you a Suzuki agenda piano. Ask them how it compares to a Yamaha agenda piano or a Roland.
Kurzweil agenda pianos
Kurzweil are able-bodied accepted for their keyboards and pro audio articles but not so abundant for their agenda pianos. Kurzweil agenda pianos accept been about for a continued time, they accept been mainly broadcast in America up until recently. The Kurzweil agenda piano is actual able-bodied and produces a acceptable sound.
Rating: 5 out of 10.
Advice: Ability be account aggravating one out if you can acquisition a Kurzweil agenda piano stockist. I accept apparent of these pianos on Ebay.
Price: Check Ebay, as this is apparently the alone abode you will acquisition them on the web.
More agenda pianos (not in the aforementioned alliance as above)
Alesis, Bohemia, Bohm, Daewoo, Ensonio, Farfisa, Hammond, Orla, Samick, Solton, Technics, Viscount Allegro, Wersi.PG-2 PG-2 Portable
These agenda pianos are abundant worse than any of the aloft agenda pianos I accept advised and should absolutely not be considered.
I can acclaim and acceptable website that offers absolute information, aloof advice, reviews and a ambit of a lot of of the agenda pianos mentioned above:
Digital Pianos: Yamaha, Roland, Casio, Korg and added - Soundsmusical.com
I achievement that armed with the aloft admonition you can now go out and buy a agenda piano.
Don't yield too abundant apprehension if you feel you are getting pushed appear any accurate agenda piano.
Ask the piano salesman to authenticate a few altered piano brands and again accomplish the accommodation yourself
based on the aloft admonition and what you feel is appropriate for your needs.
Best of luck and I achievement you adore your new agenda piano!
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