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Yamaha Portable Digital Pianos

Great quality in sound and convenience in a Yamaha Keyboard

If you like the option of taking a piano with you wherever you go and playing without plugging in, the NP-30 has a very attractive price. If you'd like all the bells and whistles and still the convenience of a portable digital piano, the YPG-235 is a great value. Also, make sure you check out how amazing the Tyros 4 Yamaha Keyboard Workstation is.

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NP-30 Portable Yamaha Keyboards
Product ID : NP-30 Electronic Keyboard

$399.99 Sale Price: $269.99

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FP-4 Roland Portable Digital Piano
Product ID : FP4-BK Roland Portable Piano

$1,719.00 Sale Price: $1,499.00

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RD-300NX Roland Piano
Product ID : RD-300NX

$1,999.00 Sale Price: $1,699.00

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Yamaha NP-31
Product ID : Yamaha NP-31

$399.99 Sale Price: $279.99

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YPG-635
Product ID : YPG-635

$1,348.99 Sale Price: $997.98

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YPG 235 Yamaha Portable Piano
Product ID : ypg235 electric keyboards

Price: $299.99

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With a Portable Digital Piano, you can have the convenience of playing anywhere. Some of the digital portable piano models can take batteries and are ultra light for ultimate portability. The Yamaha YPG-235 is packed with features such as over 500 sounds, multi-track recording and comes with the Yamaha Education Suite. The Yamaha NP-30 digital piano weighs only 12 pounds and has a slim design to better carry it with you wherever you go.

We have other full size 88 key portable digital pianos with fully weighted hammer-action keys that feel like real acoustic pianos.

The staff at the Piano Gallery are here to help you find a digital piano for cheap with the functions and features you need. You can give us a call at 1-800-600-9710 or go to the contact page to email or call a specific store. There are so many portable keyboards to choose from but you'll want one that lasts and sounds great.

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Portable Keyboards

Buying a portable keyboard can provide you with outstanding value for your money, and offer an extremely wide range of high-quality sounds and features for beginners or even the more advanced and experienced keyboard player. Yamaha introduced the portable keyboard in 1980, and since that time they have become one of the top-selling musical instruments in our history. Yamaha keyboards, as well as other keyboard brands are used extensively in education and are widely recognized as being the perfect introduction into the music world. Portable keyboards have exceptional depth as well as the unique ability to manipulate and create a wide variety of sounds. Portable keyboards have crossed most all musical genres of our day, from rock to jazz, rhythm and blues, reggae, pop, and even country music. There are many brands of portable keyboards; two of the top sellers which offer exceptional quality include Yamaha and Roland.

Yamaha Portable Keyboard
Yamaha Pro Audio manufactures keyboards which come from their musical instrument division which is headquartered in Hamamatsu, Japan. Yamaha is a premier leader in the world of portable keyboards, offering a truly impressive lineup of keyboards for beginners to professional musicians. The Piaggero line is a particularly lightweight keyboard which features Yamaha’s signature “Intelligent Arpegiator” Technology, and comes with 500 voice, 160 styles, and a USB to device port. Yamaha’s 61-key YPT-320 portable electronic keyboard is equipped with 482 natural sound voices and the YPG-235 is a very inexpensive portable keyboard with over 400 sounds as well.

Roland Portable Keyboards
Roland brand keyboards come from the Roland Corporation, headquartered also in Hamamatsu, Japan. As of 2010, Roland produces thousands of digital piano models and accessories. Roland’s A-37 features a 76-note controller, with 2 zones and MIDI Outs mp3 player input, audio sampling and an USB MIDI Interface, while their DP990 was designed for both professional musicians as well as amateurs just starting their musical career. The affordable F-110 has a 3-pedal unit embedded in the music stand and 88 fully weighted keys with a collection of very high-quality sounds.

Components of the Portable Keyboard
The major components of the portable electronic keyboard include a musical keyboard, which is the traditional black and white piano keys, pressed by the player which connects the switches and triggers the electronic note. The majority of portable keyboards use a keyboard matrix circuit to reduce the amount of wiring needed. Most portable keyboards will contain user interface software in the form of a program which handles the user interaction through control keys and menus. This software can allow your portable keyboard to sound like a piano, organ, flute or drum, and offers special effects such as reverb, echo, delay or sustain. Modern-day keyboards contain rhythm and chord generators, which produce different versions of rhythms and chords through MIDI electronic commands, and sound generators which accept MIDI commands. Amplifiers and speakers are another component of portable keyboards, as well as auto accompaniment featured on certain models.

Portable keyboards can be found extensively, with a wide-range of prices and features. There are quite costly ones available with every single feature imaginable as well as less expensive ones which still come with a fairly wide range of features. Some of the more popular portable keyboards are self-contained, with amplifier and speakers built in. Casio offers lower-end fairly inexpensive instruments, while the more professional line will come from Yamaha, Roland, Korg and Kurzweil.

Find Your Perfect Portable Keyboard at Piano Gallery Direct
Piano Gallery Direct has several locations in the Western United States; because of our incredible dedication to our customer’s complete satisfaction, our popularity has grown by leaps and bounds. Look through our website, then either give us a call at 1-800-600-9710 or shoot us an e-mail to support@pianogallery.com. We look forward to helping you purchase your portable keyboard.

The Yamaha YPG 235 is a fantastic value for what you get in a 76 note keyboard. It's hard to find so many bells and whistles in a Yamaha Keyboard under $300 and the YPG 235 can be priced as low as $199.00. Here's an overview of what you get with this keyboard.

Songs

There are 30 preset songs in the database and the YPG-235 comes with 70 more songs on a CD-ROM. That CD-ROM contains the Yamaha Education Suite (YES) which has 7 levels of piano lessons and a convenient chord dictionary. The Lesson Grading feature follows your progress as you practice with each lesson and it gives you a grade. A Repeat and Learn feature allows you to backtrack 4 measures while playing with a song so you can get those difficult parts down perfectly. Waiting Mode stops the playback of a song until you play the next correct note.

There's an auto accompaniment that will follow the speed of your playing. You can choose from 160 built in rhythms.

You can change the arrangement of a song by mixing it up with rock or hip hop or jazz.

Sound Quality

You have a 2-way speaker system for great stereo sound. 2 Woofers and 2 tweeters deliver realistic and clear sound. Bass Boost is a feature to drive some extra power to the low end. Digital Sound Processing provides sounds with enhanced effects such as reverb, harmony and chorus. Yamaha's AWM is Advanced Wave Memory that delivers amazingly realistic sound.

Sounds

For a portable piano, the Yamaha YPG 235 has the best grand piano sound in the industry. A conveniently placed button will enable you to quickly get the piano sound and it's in stereo.

Yamaha is a world lead in signal processing for more realistic sounds. You have 9 reverb effects that make it sound like you are playing in a large concert hall to a small room. Also enjoy 26 types of harmony effects.

You get almost 500 different voices/sounds in this keyboard. There are 12 different drum kits and 361 Xglite voices. Sweet! Voices are a kind of voice that will reproduce all the vibrato and natural expression of the respective instrument.

Five different master equalizer settings allow you to adjust to your preferred quality of sound. Convenience in adjusting the EQ allow for better listening in different reproduction systems such as by the internal stereo speakers, headphones or external speakers.

Piano teachers usually require a metronome and the YPG 235 has a full functioning one.

Recording

You can create your own music with a 6-track sequencer. Record the melody of a song you made up on a track and then record drums, bass, strings and chords on the other tracks.

Connectivity

MIDI USB connectivity allows you to connect to your computer and download songs from your CD-ROM. There is a convenient PC button which makes interaction with your Yamaha YPG 235 to your computer a cinch. Also you get a jack for plugging in a sustain pedal and a headphone jack.

Yamaha Keyboard Reviews -- Our review of the Yamaha YPG 235 is that it's packed with great features you only find in more expensive pro-model keyboards or high end digital pianos. A downside is you don't get fully weighted keys but you do have Graded Soft Touch which gives different levels of resistance making the beginning musician be able to transition over to the acoustic or digital piano. We can't find a better value in a keyboard for such a low price. And the portability of it makes it very convenient. You should check out the survival kit from Yamaha which is a pack of headphones, footswitch, bonus coupons, DVD-ROM and an extended warranty.

When it comes to pianos, Yamaha is the leading brand in the world. Yamaha keyboards are no exception on popularity. In the family of pianos, we break it down into 3 basic styles. You have Yamaha Keyboards, Yamaha Digital Pianos and Yamaha Pianos which are the acoustic pianos.

Yamaha Keyboards are classified as a more portable type of piano. We use the term “slab” for just the part of the piano that contains the keys and buttons. Stands on Yamaha Keyboards are a separate part and the sustain pedal will plug into the back of the Yamaha Keyboard. Yamaha Keyboards are made to be more portable since the intended purpose is to use them for band practice/performance, small places, recording, piano lessons or for fun.

There are many types of Yamaha Keyboards. We have pro-models which are usually for performance and recording. Pro Yamaha Keyboards have capabilities of unlimited sounds, beats and rhythms. You can create new sounds and record. The Yamaha Tyros Keyboard is a digital workstation which lets you create and record to the extent of your imagination.

Beginner models are for those with a small budget and would like to try out piano lessons or learn by themselves. A requirement for beginners is usually just a good piano sound, maybe a few extra sounds and a place to plug in headphones. Those that stick with learning piano usually upgrade to a better Yamaha Keyboard. Portable Yamaha Keyboards are usually lighter with 76 keys or less and are usually a keyboard for beginners.

Yamaha Digital Pianos are similar to Yamaha Keyboards but or more for the home and look nicer. A Yamaha Digital Piano will have a nicer cabinet of a wood finish and the piano stand and pedals are a part of the piano. Most people that buy a Yamaha Digital Piano want the features of an acoustic Yamaha Piano with realistic feeling keys and high quality sound. The more you pay for a Yamaha Digital Piano, the more great features you can get from education games and full color LCD displays and Karaoke, hundreds of sounds and even internet capabilities. You can have as many features as a Pro-model Yamaha Keyboard depending on the level of digital piano you get.

A Yamaha Digital Piano costs much less than a Yamaha Piano, is much easier to move and you don't have the tuning and regulation costs each year. Yamaha digital pianos are becoming more and more popular in place of regular acoustic pianos.

Yamaha Pianos, much before Yamaha Keyboards, are the original regular piano that society has enjoyed for over 400 years. In the 1800's a piano was an essential piece in the household. It was like our televisions today. Everyone had a piano if possible. Yamaha Pianos, especially Yamaha Grand Pianos are what made the Yamaha Corporation so popular. They started making reed organs and pianos at the turn of the 20th century. This is the reason that Yamaha's logo is 3 tuning forks interlaced. Yamaha Pianos have been regarded as the highest quality of piano one can expect and many professional musicians have a Yamaha Piano in their home.

Your situation and lifestyle will determine what type of Yamaha Piano is right for you. If you are starting and would like to conserve costs, a portable Yamaha Keyboard may be best. If you have a young family and would like kids in lessons or to enjoy playing yourself, a Yamaha Digital Piano may be a great fit. Or if you'd like a beautiful large piece of furniture in the home you plan to stay in for a while, a Yamaha Piano or Yamaha Grand Piano may be a great fit for you.

Yamaha has been making pianos for over 100 years. They have created quite a legacy and have dominated the world in piano making not only for acoustic pianos but for also Yamaha Electric Pianos.

An electric piano specifically is a mechanical piano with strings that has electric components such as pickups to amplify the sound. Electric pianos is also used interchangeably with digital pianos. Electric meaning you are able to plug it in and it's an electronic device.

The Yamaha Electric Piano has been around since about the 1950's and has come a very long ways. We went from electric pianos with strings to an electric piano with mechanical parts to synthesizers. Now we have digital pianos and keyboards that sound like real acoustic grand pianos.

Yamaha Electric Keyboards are different than what is meant by saying Yamaha Electric Piano. The difference is the size and portability. When saying keyboard, you have the part of the piano containing the keys. A lot of keyboards have less than the standard 88 keys that acoustic pianos have. Electronic Pianos come in different number of keys and a different number of sounds and features.

The Yamaha electric piano is meant to take the place of an acoustic piano in the home. It's a nicer piece of furniture than an electric keyboard. A nice quality stand is attached and it usually sits in the same place in your living room while your Yamaha Electric Keyboard will be moved all over the place from band practice and school to friends' houses or even outside. Some Yamaha Portable Keyboards can take batteries allowing you to roam wherever you please and not worry about where the nearest outlet is.

Technology has come so far and Yamaha Pianos Prices in portable and digital pianos have become extremely competitive. You can get a portable piano with over 400 sounds for under $300. At the other end of the spectrum, Yamaha's Piano Prices for their MODUS line of digital pianos can be over $10,000! The MODUS pianos have a luxury design and very modern style for those with a distinctive eye for beauty. The MODUS piano has moving key capabilities as well as internet connectivity to stream Yamaha Radio.

The most popular line of Yamaha Electric Piano is their Clavinova line. Yamaha Clavinovas have been the top selling digital piano over the last several years and have been around longer than any other line of digital pianos in the world. Yamaha Clavinova continues to innovate their digital pianos still today.

Clavinova is not sold online and prices for new Yamaha Clavinova's can't be displayed on the internet. They are only sold by Yamaha Piano Dealers. If you are looking for a Yamaha Electric Piano similar to the Yamaha Clavinova, The Yamaha Arius is a good one. You can buy Yamaha Arius online and the Yamaha Piano Prices for Arius are a bit lower and more competitive than the Clavinova line.

The kind of Yamaha Electric Piano depends on your lifestyle and needs or wants. Yamaha has a $199 portable keyboard all the way up to a $10,000 modern design digital piano and anywhere in between.

The Roland Piano Company was founded in Osaka Japan, April 18th, 1972 by Kakeshashi. Kakeshashi started the Ace Electronic Industries Company in 1960 as well as Hammond International. He wanted a simple name to pronounce and the name Roland is believed to be picked out of a phone book.

Roland had a soft name to it and was different than any music company brands. A name easy to pronounce would be better for global markets. There is a song called “The Song of Roland” but this was learned later and didn't have anything to do with the name of the company.

Roland carries a wide variety of equipment related to the music industry. Some products available are mostly Roland Digital Piano, electronic drums, synthesizers and DJ gear. There are also items like guitar accessories such as effects pedals, rhythm machines and portable audio recording equipment.

Rogers Organs was started in 1958 and is now a subsidiary of Roland. Cakewalk has been a long term partner and produces music software.

One of the first Roland Digital Pianos was the Roland SH-1000. The Roland Digital Piano was introduced in 1973 and was the first compact synthesizer produced by Japan and by Roland. It looks more like a home organ than a digital piano. It produced great sounds at the time and became popular because of its small size. It had limited capabilities with 10 simple preset sounds but it had an editable section which could be tweaked to create new interesting sounds. One of the effects included a white noise generator.

The Roland Digital Piano went through many stages and firsts in the digital piano industry. They have been a leader for the last thirty years producing high quality sounding digital pianos with elegant designs.

One of the latest models in Roland Digital Pianos is the F-110. The piano was announced in late 2009 as an eye-catching classy looking digital piano. This piano is just 12 inches deep for a better fit in space conscious area. Roland claims the F-110 has the finest concert grand piano sound.

The F-110 Roland Digital Piano Review talks about the progressive action. When pushing down notes in the bass you feel more resistance than in the treble. This resembles the natural feel in the keys of grand pianos. The DP-990 Roland Digital Piano also boasts a natural authentic feel. This piano has USB connectivity which is becoming the standard in plugging into a computer.

Roland has always been in the forefront of manufacturing digital pianos. They have quite the lineup. You'll see what high quality you get by reading Roland Digital Piano Reviews and hearing about the great reputation that Roland Corporation has.

Roland has been innovating keyboards for over 35 years. Their specialty is creating a realistic sounding and feeling Roland Keyboard. The Roland Electronic Keyboard started out as monophonic. This means that only one note could be played at a time.

It wasn't too long before Roland became one of the first to create monophonic electric keyboards. It seemed like the Roland Electric Keyboard would improve and innovate every year. One of many innovations is what we call the “keytar.” It was a Roland Electronic Keyboard that you would put over your shoulder that had a strap like an electric guitar. This was extremely popular in the 80's. Bands’ members loved just slinging a small keyboard over their shoulder and jamming out just like the dudes playing their axes.

The Roland Keyboard is now setting high standards in the piano industry. Statistics show that most people who buy a piano type product buy some kind of electronic keyboard. The next most bought piano type of product is the digital piano and the last is the acoustic piano. This is a huge change in the piano industry being that most pianos bought were upright acoustic pianos and second were grand pianos.

Some of the amazing features of the Roland Keyboard is not just the sound quality but the features. There are many realistic instrument sounds and rhythms to choose from. Also, if you are going for design and looks, the Roland Electronic Keyboard keeps that in mind. Two examples of that are the Roland F110 and the DP990. The key covers of these pianos fold down and make your Roland Electronic Keyboard look like a nice table.

Roland Electronic Keyboards are durable and will last many years to come. Technology changes quickly but it's not likely you would buy a new Roland Keyboard each time the next one comes out. Electronic Keyboards are a great way to conserve on spending. An acoustic piano needs to be maintained at least yearly. A regular tuning costs from $75 to $150 once or twice a year. Also, after many years, piano strings will eventually need to be replaced which can cost hundreds of dollars.

The great thing about a Roland Electric Keyboard is it's easy to move, it looks nice and it won't go out of tune because of being played on or from temperature changes. If you are worried about a Roland Electronic Keyboard not feeling like a real acoustic piano, just go to a nearby piano dealer an try one out. The ultimate test would be to close your eyes and have someone guide you to a piano both acoustic and electronic. Then try to guess which is the Roland Keyboard. Roland Electric Keyboards are so realistic now that it's hard to tell the difference between that and an acoustic grand piano.

If you have any questions about our Roland Electronic Keyboards, don't hesitate to call. Our friendly knowledgeable staff is here to help. Just call us at 1-800-600-9710.

A Buying Guide For Portable Keyboards

The piano industry has seen a huge change in the last ten years. More and more people are accepting Portable Keyboards as a way to practice the piano and improve their skills. There are so many different Portable Keyboards to choose from that you may need a little advice on the subject. We can help you with some things to look for.

Portability
Portable Keyboards are made to be portable. In order to be portable sometimes a few features you may want are left out to make the keyboard lighter and easier to transport. Most Portable Keyboards don't have the full 88 keys that a regular piano has. 88 keys makes a piano nearly 5 feet long and that makes it hard to fit in some places like a car or on the bus. 76 keys or less is what you'll find more commonly.

Weighted keys are usually left out of Portable Keyboards. You may find some features like keys that have a little resistance in the touch or graded weighted keys that have a little more resistance in the bass keys than in the treble. It's harder to find hammer-action weighted keys in Portable Keyboards and if you have a piano teacher, they will most likely recommend the fully weighted keys.

Features
Portable pianos now have plenty of features. This used to not be so. A Portable Keyboard Piano wasn't what it is now. You'll find plenty of sounds, metronome, headphone jacks, recording options, up to hundreds of sounds and even education features.

Brands
3 of the most popular brands of Portable Keyboards are Yamaha, Roland and Casio. Yamaha and Roland have the whole spectrum of pianos from low cost to high cost. Casio focuses on the a lot of quality for the lower end keyboards. When it comes to shopping online, it's best to go with brands you trust. Yamaha and Roland have proven that their products last a long time and are very durable.

Things to Look for
As far as pricing which is probably the most important part of looking for Portable Keyboard Pianos, you should be able to get free shipping. Also, look for MAP pricing. Yamaha Pianos USA and Roland have a Minimum Advertised Price which is the lowest limit a dealer can offer online. This is the lowest price dealers are willing to offer. If you can find the MAP price and free shipping on a portable keyboard, you've hit a home run. Piano Gallery Direct offers MAP and Free shipping as well as no tax outside of Utah. You'll most likely have a hard time finding a better deal than that.

Also remember to see how the keys are weighted, how many keys it has and for portability purposes look to see if the portable keyboard can take batteries. If learning to play the piano, the metronome will be a nice bonus. To buy a metronome usually cost about $50. It can also be lost or fall and break on the ground.

Good luck and let Piano Galley Direct know if we can help. Just call us at 1-800-600-9710 for great friendly service!

The Portable Keyboard is Rising in Popularity

Keyboards are becoming more and more portable and meeting the requirements of even the most accomplished pianist. The term portable piano didn't exist 20 years ago and the first piano with electronics was still about 400 pounds. Today we have digital pianos weighing only 12 pounds and can take batteries for ultimate portability.

Portable Keyboard Benefits:
The first and most obvious is that it's portable. If you are in a band, in school or move around more than once in ten years, a Portable Keyboard makes things easy. Also, if you live in a smaller space, it's nice to conserve with a Portable Keyboard. You could slide the piano right under your bed. When you want to play the piano, you can play almost anywhere, even on your bed with the piano in your lap.

Some Portable Keyboards have the option for batteries. This allows you to even go camping and play your piano out to nature. Think how jamming around the fire with not only guitars and singing but with a piano. Just add some bongos and you can have a whole campfire band!

Another benefit is having a headphone jack on your portable piano. This allows you to play loudly even when you are in the same room as someone who is sleeping. You might have to get some good heavy duty headphones that don't leak out too much sound but even cheap headphones will do the trick if you need to stay quiet enough to not bother the neighbors.

Sounds and features are another big part of these portable pianos. Some Yamaha Portable Keyboards have 500 sounds and 6 track recording. Yamaha Portable Keyboards have great quality sound. They include the AWM sound which is a very high quality and realistic type of sound with each voice. There are even education programs included. The Yamaha YPG 235 Portable Piano has the Yamaha Education Suite that includes 7 levels of piano lessons. There's a play by note feature where you play with a song and the song stops and waits for you to play the right note.

It used to be that features on a portable piano were hard to come by. Remember the cheap small Casio Keyboards? The keys were so small that it was hard not to push two keys down at once. You could only play one note at a time because of its monophonic limit. I did like the little be-bop rhythms though, that was always a plus.

Portable Keyboard Downsides:
There aren't many negative aspects the portable pianos anymore since the technology has provided high quality features. One thing that so far isn't a big plus is it's hard to find Portable Keyboards with hammer-action keys. They exist but Yamaha Pianos Prices are still up there for that technology in a Yamaha Portable Keyboard. One other thing is having a full 88 note Portable Keyboard doesn't make it that portable. 88 keys get a bit long and it won't fit in certain places. Most compact cars are too skinny for an 88 note keyboard to fit across the back seat. You'll have to lay the passenger seat down and place the keyboard from front to back. Or if you have the nice option of putting the back seat down and part of the piano can run back into the trunk.

These are just some things to think about. A great thing is that 76 notes on a Portable Keyboard seem to be just fine. Who uses those very top treble notes anyway?

The origination and ancestor of the Digital Piano goes all the way back to the 1929. The Neo-Bechstein electric grand piano came first. This piano was not like a Digital Piano but more like a baby grand piano with pickups. There were still strings and mechanics of an acoustic grand piano and like an electric guitar, the plucking of a string would be amplified by the pickups (small microphone type device to amplify the sound.)

The first stringless model of an electronic piano was probably the Vivi-Tone Clavier. This was a step closer to a Digital Piano because Digital Pianos have no strings.

The electric piano began to grow in popularity in the late 1950's and reached its peak in the 1970's. Synthesizers began to move into the scene. The benefit of a synthesizer is there aren't electro-mechanical parts, another step even closer to the Digital Piano.

By the 1980's the Digital Piano was coming onto the scene. The keys of the piano had no resistance or weight to them. The timber or quality of sound was very weak and unrealistic. They also looked kind of bulky in design. An interesting aspect of electronics is that it's very light. Quality back then was perceived as heavy and solid materials. In order to better sell Digital Pianos, sometimes lead weights would be inserted inside the piano making it feel heavier and of higher quality.

Synthesizer's were also still popular and still are. They are known more commonly as keyboards. Digital Piano technology has consistently improved in sound and feel. Weighted keys on Digital Pianos started to become standard in the late 1980's and now since 2005 we have hammer-action weighted keys.

Digital Pianos now are so close to the sound and feel of even acoustic grand pianos that it's hard to tell the difference if you had your eyes closed and played on or the other.

Yamaha Digital Pianos have been one of the top selling Digital Piano brands in the world. The Yamaha Clavinova is a line of Yamaha Digital Piano that has been the longest running line in history.

Yamaha Clavinova has kept up on technology and features and has the realistic hammer-action keys as well as graded-action. This means that keys in the bass of the keyboard are slightly stiffer and gradually get lighter to press down towards the treble. This is how grand piano keys are weighted.

In the last couple years a popular concept is phone apps. Online as well as on your phone you can download a Computer Piano. A Computer Piano is just an application of a virtual piano that you can hit keys on your keyboard or touch the surface of the phone to make the sounds of the keys. We also have roll up pianos that is just an inch thick pad of keys that play when you touch them. When you are done, you can roll up the piano and pack it with you. These roll-up pianos have thus far been a low quality type of piano.

Digital Pianos are now coming with USB ports to easily connect to your computer. Software on the internet will let you plug into the computer and have piano lessons. The computer program can communicate with the Digital Piano or keyboard correcting you on notes and rhythm.

What kind of Digital Pianos do think we will we have in the future?