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Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
Path: decwrl!labrea!rutgers!att!ttrdc!levy
Subject: Looking for best keyboard deal for me (was Re: Absolute Best Weighted Keyboard)
Posted: 5 Dec 88 01:54:03 GMT
Organization: AT&T, Skokie, IL
In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Dan Ts'o) writes:
< In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Frank Wells) writes:
< >I've got a Korg SG-1D -- use it for the piano sounds, and as a MIDI master
< >controller. I agree, the 12 (only) twelve voices gets frustrating, but
< >only on soft, legato pieces with lots of pedal. As for the competition,
< >Roland just doesn't cut it for feel or sound -- not as a piano-thing,
< >anyway. Personal opinion: the Korg piano sound is better than the Yamaha.
< I agree. I have an SG1DX which I love. But my sister wanted a digital
< piano and I tried to remain unbiased and once again examine all the current
< models from all makes. It seems that the best selling digital pianos,
< according to at least a dozen stores and mail order houses is the KORG,
< particularly the CONCERT series. My sister decide on KORG over the Roland,
< Yamaha, Kawai, Technics and Kurzweil. You can get a C-3500 for $1700 and
< a C-5000 for $1850. Both are full 88-keys weighted, 16-note (not 12-note)
< polyphonic. The C-5000 has reverb, which helps the sound even more. The
< top of the line C-7000/7100 is about $2200 and has stereo sampled sounds
< and is the best of the bunch.
Hello, I walked in late on this discussion. But I'd like to get ideas on the
best electronic piano keyboards for a limited budget, and felt that this news
group would be the best place to go. I combed through the articles to see if
anyone was talking about anything related to the matter, and came across this
article. It felt like a starting point, so I followed up.
Let me explain how I got thinking about this. Yesterday, while not even
thinking of electronic keyboards, but rather in quest of a portable radio,
I went into the local Venture (a discount department store). After picking
out the radio, I went over to the battery aisle, and lo and behold, on the
other side of the aisle was a display of electronic keyboards. I play an
acoustical keyboard (read: ordinary piano) but I've often been fascinated
by electronic keyboards. In the past several years, however, keyboards that
simulated anything close to a piano or had more than four octaves were too
pricey for me, and the cheaper ones were definitely mickey mouse. Back to
the present situation: one unit, a Casio CT640 (stop hooting, please :-)
drew my attention: it had five octaves, full size keys, ten note polyphony,
and it actually sounded like a piano when I played a few pieces on it. I
thought this might be almost reasonable for something to bang on at night in
my apartment (and listen to through earphones) when I don't want to bother the
neighbors while practicing classical pieces, though the range of five
octaves was still too cramped on the low side. Then I looked at the price
tag and was bowled over by how little it was (compared to what I'd seen
through the years when I dared browse music stores): $300.
Now I got to thinking: if THIS is possible for $300, maybe there are better
keyboards (wider range, with pedal sustain, and possibly [though not a
requirement for my purposes] with keys which are sensitive to the force of
touch [is that what "weighted keys" means?]) for, say, double the $300 figure?
Especially given that I don't want non-piano fluff like what this beast has:
30 different voices, automatic rhythm section, MIDI interface, performance
memory. All I want is maybe 6 octaves (3 below middle C, 3 above), a "damper"
pedal, a reasonable amount of polyphony (at least 10 notes, more would be
nicer), a fair imitation of a piano sound, and an earphone jack.
And so, with high hopes, I come to this newsgroup and look for ideas for
a keyboard like this without busting my budget. The Korg unit mentioned
in the quote above would obviously more than fulfill the function I want
but would leave my wallet uncomfortably bare. I get a little nervous when
contemplating an electronic keyboard for which I must shell out more than
I would pay for an "acoustic" one, especially given the cost of fixing
it when it fails.
Thanks in advance.
(Please email me if you can. I can't always keep up with the news. Thanks
again.)
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