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Offline sissco

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Help me with choosing a digital piano
on: September 10, 2006, 01:29:58 PM
Please  :)

Yesterday I went to a shop with some digital piano's. With my budget of $1200 these are my favourites:

Yamaha DGX 620 ($1020)
Korg Sp 250 (950 $)
Roland Fp-2 ($1330)

So that was one shop...many more to go :p But what piano do you prefer from those three and what pianos do you recommend with this budget?

Thank you, Jordy




Offline franz_

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Re: Help me with choosing a digital piano
Reply #1 on: September 10, 2006, 01:43:44 PM
Roland.
Yamaha stage piano is very good, don't know the price.
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Offline sissco

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Re: Help me with choosing a digital piano
Reply #2 on: September 10, 2006, 07:33:39 PM
Dear franz

What exactly is the difference between portable and stage?

And I have an acoustic piano to, so I don't need a very expensive digital piano. It is for in the weekends when I am with my mother. So it is for very short practise sessions. I like the yamaha DGX 620, somebody has experience with this one?

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Re: Help me with choosing a digital piano
Reply #3 on: September 11, 2006, 01:42:31 AM
How about yamaha YDP 113?
around 900$
I like it, it has a very good sound,  a good touch also.

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Re: Help me with choosing a digital piano
Reply #4 on: September 20, 2006, 10:42:01 AM

about a year ago i had the same problem as you :)

I went to a HUGE musicstore here in Belgium and played the digitals within my price range over and over again...

Until I concluded that the Yamaha was brighter, the 'heaviness' of the keys were better then roland and the others.

Roland had that awfull effect on their piano sound , like reverb or something, Yamaha was definetely sharper, brighter and for me better.

I bought myself the P-90 that time for 1200$ while the roland was more expensive
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