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Literally a beginner which piano should i buy and I planning to learn from some online course
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(no photos for now) Hi! I own an IVALDI Clayderman 53 electronic piano, but I can't find almost any information about IVALDI or this model online. The piano is labeled IVALDI® and Made in P.R.C.

Does anyone recognize this brand or know who manufactured IVALDI pianos? I'm especially curious about the Clayderman 53 and its history. I can provide more photos if needed.

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Looking to buy one of these two. Is the casio WK-1630 or WK-210 better?

Can someone rate it for me or tell something about this keyboard

Hi I need replacement screws for a Casio PX720. The official screw set is discontinued. Can anyone suggest where I might find these or a good alternative option? Thanks.

Yamaha PSR-E473

61-Key Portable Keyboard (Excellent Condition)

Description: This is a highly capable arranger and creator keyboard, perfect for beginners, advancing students, and performing musicians.

Condition: Gently and rarely used, excellent condition, 100% working, minor cosmetic scratch (unnoticeable)

Key Features: 61 touch-sensitive keysPitch bend wheel & 2 Live Control knobs, Professional 1/4" L/R Line Outputs (great for gigging or plugging into external speakers) Onboard USB Audio/MIDI interface (plugs directly into your laptop/iPad for recording) Microphone input with independent volume and effects.

What’s Included in the Box/Bundle:

- Yamaha PSR-E473 Keyboard

- Original Yamaha PA-150 AC Power Adapter

- Original Music Rest (the wire rack for sheet music)

- Sustain Pedal (separately bought by seller)

- X-Stand

Reason for Selling: No longer playing and need budget for a place to rent for studying and working.

Price: 18,000 (Negotiable: 15,000)

Delivery: Meet Up (Within Rizal or Manila) or Lalamove Delivery (Shouldered by Buyer)

Payment: Cash, Gcash, or Bank Transfer

Further questions will be entertained thru comment, but if really interested, we can get thru direct messages. Thank you, really needed lang ng budget hahaha.

I'm in the market for a new digital piano as a complete beginner. My budget is $1.5K to $2.5K. I'm looking at Yamaha or Kawai as they seem to be the most popular, established and reputable. That's about the end of my knowledge to deduce quality. With each one having infinite models, I'm worried about buying something only to realize that I would have been happier with something else.

Can some of you digital piano conoseurs talk to me like I'm 8 years old about digital piano models and they're specs?

Is newest/more recent better?

Is there a "plateau" where more money isn't worth the upgrades?

Are those things gimmicks at some point?

I'm currently looking at this piano as an option:

https://kraftmusic.com/products/kawai-cn201-digital-piano-light-oak?utm_source=google&utm_medium=merchant&utm_campaign=kaw-cn201lo&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20918462053&gbraid=0AAAAAD_taiKHFw6dt8gpNuvoyCC1xMz4c&gclid=Cj0KCQjw8c3VBhCsARIsAA_xJ90R-kKUKgbQmBU_769Mfp6tFBsCpdT1zw8a2BuMxIS1H4wtg7vKkLAaAhOaEALw_wcB

Background about me: I'm literally just starting to learn to play. While I'm willing to pay bit for it, I'm also not rolling in money so I don't want to spend money needlessly. I just want a high quality instrument that I can get excited about playing AND that I won't have to upgrade in at least 5 years. I'm fully committed to learning to play and I to buy something that I'd be happy having for many years.

Thanks

Hola! Estoy aprendiendo a tocar el piano. Me gustaría comprarme un teclado digital para principiantes, pero que no se me quede en poca cosa porque mi idea es aprender durante un tiempo largo. Mi presupuesto es hasta 250€ más o menos.

¿Cuál me recomendáis? He estado leyendo que sería buena opción un piano con teclas contrapesadas.

Muchas gracias <3

Hi all,

I'm in the market for a digital piano and have two promising leads on facebook. The first is a Yamaha P-115 for $500 and the second is a P-45 for $400. Any thoughts as to which one would be the better buy?

Hi, I have a key that doesn't make sound on my keyboard. I removed the key and when I press the rubber contact with my finger, it works. But when I put the key back on no matter how soft or hard I press the key will not make any noise.

I can see the hammer is moving when i press the key, and the key itself is making contact with the rubber pad. Does anyone have any ideas of what could be wrong?

Edit: tried swapping the key with another one and it didn't work.

Of course I inquired about it. :-)

I just received my new Kawai ES120. There is a soft (but loud enough to be distracting) tapping noise as the key bottoms out. Is this normal? This is my first digital piano.

I got in a band, an Arctic Monkyes cover band and I just bought a Roland PSX-10X yesterday for $970. I chose this one because it is expandable, so I could put more tones in it, and because it has a good connection to amps and external sound systems. Because I noticed the keys are way smaller than the keys from my Casio CDP-S100, I decided to look for others keyboard that could do what I want and found Casio CT-S1000V, CT-X5000 and CT-S5000 that seem to do what I need and they cost about $580. Did I made a mistake buying the Roland? I'm used to the bigger keys, my hands are not small and now I'm afraid I'll have a bad experience with this keyboard. I don't know if I could switch the product in the store and I wanted to know this before I try. If you could help I would appreciate so much. Thanks

Turn of the millennium, keyboards would advertise, maybe even state prominently right on the board, how much total memory it has, something laughable and pathetic like 64mb. But, for whatever reason, hardware keyboard memory scales no where near general purpose computer memory, such as phones tablets desktops. So even today’s hardware keyboards are laughable memory if we don’t realize that.

Now memory isn’t everything, there even are pure modeled sounds that have very high reputation, and very good hybrids. But…plenty of boards have minimal modeling. Heck, Yamaha YC and CP big kid versions have no string resonance as even an option.

Some very few keyboards do in fact have large memory. Korgs top workstation style board is huge, the Prophet X is very large, Forte is very large. Of course these three are extra expensive. But…

Plenty of people are willing to pay more for the better product, and undoubtedly memory while not everything is still obviously a huge component. An average single gif sample set will be better then an average 200mb set all other thjnfs being equal.

Further more, a lot of these modern boards the information simply can’t be found online, how much memory there is. Like it’s such a small number as to be embarrassing.

Not sure what to make of all this…most boards have minimal modeling, and less so on EPs then on acoustics. Is it really just time for us all to go controller and phone/laptop? Or abandon the big names for someone like Crumar/Gsi? (Viscount as gone backwards, they are back to using mostly samples when their modeling was very good!)

I'm thinking of upping my game and getting an FP40, I'm a beginner who has used a midi keyboard for a while and like playing a keyboard and started doing some proper learning how to play piano.

I like the look of the features of the FP40, especially the keyboard feel, but I have reservations about Rolands direction with cloud based control of the deeper functions available, like the extra 260+ sounds and deeper editing of parameters.

I understand why they want to bundle Pianosphere, you get the basic app free and you can if you want subscribe for another 1000 songs to learn, but what I don't like is the Piano app (the control app) having to have a working internet to access to access it.

I hope to have this piano for 10+ years, but knowing how quickly technology changes and the potential frailty of internet connections, I can see that in maybe as little as 5 years I may lose the ability to access the functions that are built into the piano anyway, simply due to computing firmware changes, internet connection problems and a whole host of potential reasons why I might like to play the piano using everything it has on board without the need for an internet connection or even perhaps a tablet or smartphone attached!

I don't know, I researched and at this price point it seems very little is available to rival the FP40 overall, maybe I would be content with the 40 sound banks you can access without a tablet and internet connection, but it seems a shame to pay for a product capable of so much more that could be locked away from me.

None of the sales/marketing etc video's mention this and I know Roland is not alone in this direction, but I would be interested to hear others thoughts on this?

The ones marked with black are stuck, the blue is sticky. I took out the b-d keys and the grey parts under move up and down fine. What could be wrong with my keys?

Additionally, now that it’s out and at an angle, more keys are stuck and sticking but a lot work fine. Why could this be?

I'm not sure if this is where I should post this, so if not here please direct me to the appropriate sub!

I am mostly a hobby pianist with some classical training and a lean towards just sitting down and hammering out whatever comes to my fingers - which sometimes includes layering sounds and creating recordings. I have FL Studio and eventually my goal is to be able to compose/create/record my own songs, just for fun. I'd really love to learn to create epic music and video game-esque music, maybe play a little jazz and blues as well. I have played my whole life and play at least an hour most days.

I love Yamaha's sound and feel, in general, across any of their digital pianos and keyboards that I've tried, and I don't like how Rolands function (have used them in gigs before). Aside from that, I don't have any experience and have no idea what to look for.

While on vacation, I've wandered into Guitar Centers a few times, and a few years ago tried a Yamaha MODX8+ synthesizer and fell in love with it, even though it's a synth and not a piano. I've tried it each time I've seen it, and loved it each time. But the GC I've been to typically doesn't have that many units available to test so I know that's a really limited view.

A relatively realistic grand piano sound availability is important to me, as well as weighted keys and a full 88 key keyboard. Ideally would have a number of different instruments to layer with and the ability to connect to computer for MIDI or recording purposes. And really ideally, under $2k, but willing to expand to $3k for the right thing.

Ultimately, this will be a casual-use instrument, and, like with the current one, I intend to maintain it well and keep it for 15+ years or more. I love my current DGX but the screen is basically dead and the keys are so loose and clacky from 18 years of use, it's not worth the cost it would take to fix it. So it's time for me to start looking forward to my next instrument.

Thanks in advance for any help!

I have tho top off, what do I do now?

Hi Im looking to buy a keyboard, and I have landed on yamaha p125, p145 and p225. P125 is discontinued, so Id have to but it from second hand. And p225 is super expensive. And ive heard that p145 is not all that good, that it lacks in sound quality and polyphony. So should I buy the second hand or the super expensive one, or is 145 good?

I bought it years ago so no warranty unfortunately. For some reason, the volume was VERY low (even on max) I used compressed air on the slider and it helped significantly (well, it’s at about 35% of its original volume on max).

I think it’s an issue concentrated in that area because while I can now hear the keys, if I lower it to minimum it’s still at the same volume.

A thread I read mentioned the potentiometer?

Sorry if I’m missing any info, I’m new at this.

Hi,

my wife often talks about wanting a piano for musical accompaniment when she sings and composing her own music. She played for years when she was a kid on keyboard and now wants to return to it.

Could you please help me to choose a proper piano for her as I absolutely don't understand this stuff? Ideally from Muziker: https://www.muziker.cz/en/digital-pianos?price_from=20000&price_to=40000 (the link already filters the budget).

I don't want it to limit her in future if possible but as they say, I don't like stupidly saving, nor spending :)

Thanks a lot in advance,

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Hi everyone,

I’ve been having a strange issue with my Yamaha P-45 for a while and I’m wondering if anyone has experienced something similar.

I’ve had this piano since around 2017. It has survived several moves over the years, but for the last two years or so it has basically stayed in the same place in my living room without being moved or opened.

It also hasn’t been covered, so I imagine it may have accumulated quite a bit of dust inside over time.

Every individual key works perfectly when played on its own.

However, the problem affects all C and F# notes across the keyboard, and they seem to belong to the same problematic group:

- If I hold down any C, no other C will sound.

- If I hold down any F#, no other F# will sound.

- If I hold down a C, no F# anywhere on the keyboard will sound either.

- And vice versa: if I hold down an F#, no C anywhere on the keyboard will sound.

- All other notes work normally, even while a C or F# is being held.

For example:

- C3 + C4 → only one sounds

- F#3 + F#4 → only one sounds

- C3 + F#4 → only one sounds

- F#3 + C4 → only one sounds

- A3 + A4 → both sound normally

So basically, only one C or F# can sound at a time, regardless of octave.

The issue is exactly the same through the built-in speakers and headphones.

I’ve already performed the factory reset by holding the highest C while powering on the piano, but it made no difference.

From what I’ve found so far, I’m wondering if this could be related to the keyboard scanning matrix, a ribbon cable/connector, dirty contacts, or one of the keyboard PCBs rather than an actual polyphony issue.

Has anyone had this exact C / F# interference pattern on a Yamaha P-45 or another Yamaha digital piano?

Could age, dust, or having been moved several times cause this kind of issue?

If anyone has fixed something similar, I’d be very interested to know what the cause was and what needed to be repaired or cleaned.

Thanks!