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My favorite band The Zombies uses a wurlitzer or something for their album Odyssey and Oracle and i just wanted to know if there are any modern day versions of that keyboard used.

(P.S: Don't say a nord keyboard or a midi because I don't use midi and im not buying a nord)

Hey everyone. I trust this is a good sub for discussing keyboard/piano purchases? This has turned out rather long for such a first-world concern but maybe someone will be inclined to read.

I'm in the early stages of learning to play and I have a Kawai ES110, which is a digital piano that was in the same sort of price bracket as the popular Roland FP10 and the Yamaha P145. Over on the piano sub these are the kind of models that are considered the cheapest end of quality digital instruments for anyone interested in playing the piano.

I've got enough experience with the keys to know now that my hands are indeed rather small for the standard full size keys and I disregard the curious disdain this complaint often gets (along the lines of "hand size isn't the issue, technique is").

So I'm planning on purchasing a specialised instrument when it becomes available. There is the Athena, currently on the market, and this has an octave width of 5.5 inches, which is comparable to the width of microkeys on many synths and midi controllers. These are just a bit too narrow and fiddly.

So I'm waiting on another company called DreamPlayPianos, whose products are still at just the prototype stage. They will be making a 6 inch width octave digital piano. This would be ideal. You can preorder them if you're willing to pay half up front but I'm really not comfortable handing money over to a company that isn't established yet.

In the meantime, I'm thinking of selling my Kawai and buying a Yamaha Piaggero. For some reason, some Yamaha's have slightly narrower keys (an octave of 6.25 inches instead of 6.5), including this one. This is a drawback for many but for me, it's an increment in the direction of the specialized instrument I eventually hope to get.

But it would be a downgrade in regards to attention given to the action. The Piaggero doesn't have weighted keys. I've played enough cheap keyboards to really appreciate the action on my Kawai but I'm still not entirely sure as to why so many people speak as if anything without weighted keys is a mere toy and you couldn't possibly hope to develop piano skills on such a thing.

I guess my question is, what do people think of the Piaggero? Would it be a crazy downgrade from the Kawai ES110?

TL:DR Piaggero has narrower keys, a plus for me, but might be a major downgrade from my Kawai ES110 action-wise. Thoughts on the Piaggero?

Hi y’all, first post on r/keys. I’m looking to buy my first keyboard and was hoping for some guidance as I’m very new to this.

Long story short, my old roommate got a piano (Roland fp90x) and was nice enough to let me practice on it. I’ve been a musician for a while (jazz trumpet), and found it so much easier to pick up on theory and improv.

Now I’m looking for something of my own and am interested in used options up to $500. Because of my positive experience, my first thought was a Roland fp10 30 or 30x, which seem to have great key action. However, I’m amused by buttons, switches, and sound effects lol. MIDI sounds super fun, pitch/mod wheels, etc. I see options like the Arturia Keylab 88 and only see benefits. I get the weighted keys and the fun midi stuff. But it sounds like people also use digital pianos as midi controllers?

What would y’all do in my position? Thanks!

There are soft cases with dense foam padding, and there are full on hard cases, and some thin sort of advertised as between, but usually not with any diagrams really showing how they are structurally better then the padded soft cases. What form do the semi rigid cases come in? Are any of them good enough to, say, put a 25 pound second keyboard or relatively light weight PA speaker on top of?

i just got into this band i have to play keyboards for…only problem is ive never played keyboards at a live show, ive played shows on bass but never keyboards so i dont have a live rig, i have a notation 88 key hooked up my scarlett with garageband (aka the most faulty software out there) and i have no speaker so im using an amplifier (but i am able to use it as an output) i have it connected to a quarter inch which is going into the 1 output on my interface and everything is connected properly but garageband refuses to recognize my midi controller it recognizes 1 midi input but refuses to be an option for an input on garageband, ive had this problem for a year but tried fixing it using ableton live lite as my software but all the sounds suck so i stopped using it and the problem wasnt much better, any help?

I’m looking for ideas for a cleaner setup for my two-keyboard rig.
I want to run a single 10 m cable from my keyboard stand to the mixer/power source, instead of having multiple separate cables running across the stage.

Ideally, the loom would contain:
2 × IEC C13 power cables for the two keyboards
4 × 6.3 mm jack audio connections from the keyboards
4 × XLR outputs going to the mixer

So basically, one neat cable loom that carries both power and audio for the entire two-keyboard setup.
Does anyone know of an existing product like this, or have a better idea for how to build it? I’m especially interested in solutions that are reliable and flexible enough for regular live use.

My keys dont fit in my door anymore after i gave it to my cousin. She says she forgot it in the sun so maybe simething happened to it out in the sun?

Hi there,

i have the Crumar Mojo 61 for Gigs and i love the Waterfall-Synth-Action Keyboard. Does anyone know a a Midi-Keyboard with the same kind of Keyboard? The Doepfer dm3 is nice, but i want some knobs, faders and Mod/Pitch-Wheels.

Thanks in advance for Tipps!

I’m open to buy from OLX as well and getting around 7k for Casio Ctx-700 and same for ctk-3500 as well

Shall I go for it ? Or buy a new one ?

I’m a beginner never touched keys in my life. But am very keen to learn.

As the title suggests, I am a complete beginner and want to get into keyboard piano.

Budget is 25k.

Osea siempre he visto que en la mayoría de iglesias recientes usa un Nord Stage, pero por qué no otro osea como el Yamaha Montage m8x, o el Roland Fantom 8, si no que solo ese, ya sea en alabanzas de habla inglés o español, para ustedes, ¿Cuál es el mejor teclado?

Looking for feedback if this is a good gig keyboard for my dad band… need good real piano, organ, wurli, & electric piano sounds. Thanks!

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Question for PX-S3100 owners: Can you mute piano to speakers, but not line out, and still route external audio to the speakers?

I want to route the piano's sound out through the 1/4" stereo line out, through some effects, and then back into the 3.5mm trs audio input. BUT I want the dry piano sound to be fully muted internally, while still playing through the output and also still routing the 3.5mm audio input to the keyboards speakers.

Piano (muted internal) > Lineout > Effects > Line In > Speakers

Is this possible? I found this page of the manual, but it's a bit sparse and I'm not sure if what I want to do is possible.

Hello people.

So im doing DAW for a while now, and im ao addicted to music production.

I just bought a Novation Launchkey Mk4 49 MIDI controller.

I would like to learn the keys the correct way to make melodies and to boost up production.

Any tutos, advices? Sites? Which would help to learn its theory and whic woukd give some directions?

Or is there any channels etc. That helped you to improve your skills? Etc..

Thank you! :)

My daughter is going back to college in a few weeks. She brought my Yamaha MX-88 with her to keep up with piano, but it's kind of a behemoth: it's heavy and takes up a lot of space, and there's not much space to be had where she's going to be living. I could offer her my MX-61, but I think she really likes having all 88 keys.

Is there a decent(ish) 88-key keyboard that's built a little bit more portably?

I have yamaha e-463, and I was just messing around with the groove creator option, but just wanted to know that all the songs effects melodies, are all of them made using the things in the keyboard??

Like there were 2 sounds in a single track itself, which idk how they are doing it, but that really got me wondering about all this