Digital pianos

[indespair]

I require a list of prices of digital pianos(any brand) within the subjective range of "cheapest to medium expensive". Thank you.

[gvfarns]

Uh huh.  Well...

Every brand has a range of pianos.  There are four major players.  Yamaha, Roland, Kawai, Casio.  The last has mostly budget pianos, although they seem to be slowly expanding their offerings.  I mostly ignore them.

Pianos below $1000 or so are really more appropriately called keyboards.  They all have inferior actions and in some ways inferior sounds and capabilities.  The cheapest item that I consider to be a true digital piano (an adequate replacement for an acoustic piano) and not a keyboard is the Yamaha P155 or CP33.  They are both $1000 and feature higher end actions and better sounds.

Then you have a whole range of pure digital pianos.  The best from each brand would be the V piano from Roland (also the RD700NX and similar console style pianos), CP1 or maybe one of the high end Clavinovas from Yamaha, CA93 (also MP10) from Kawai.

Beyond that is the AvantGrand line from Yamaha, which features an acoustic grand action and digital sounds.  It doesn't get better than that from the major retailers.  The N1 is like 7-10K.  the N2 is better and the N3 is the best, at maybe 15K.

You can do better than the sounds of any digital piano (including the very high end ones) by using your piano as a MIDI controller to drive a software piano in a computer, like Ivory II or Galaxy II.  Computers have much more powerful processors and larger storage than digital pianos, so they can have much more detailed and beautiful samples.

Check Yamaha, Kawai, and Roland's websites for lists of mid-range pianos.