To buy a keyboard or a classical piano for beginner?

[ace_piano]

For the beginner, is the keyboard ok to learn the classical pieces? or i have to buy the piano?

Thank you!

[rachmaninoff_forever]

I think it depends on how far you wanna go with it.  I think that you should start off with a 200 dollar piano, and if you really enjoy it, then go ahead and buy that several thousand dollar beauty!

[iansinclair]

If I may make the assumption that someday down the road you will want to play a "real" piano, then the answer is... depends on the keyboard.  A keyboard would be fine -- provided that it has weighted keys and a reasonable approximation of the feel and action of a real piano.  There are a lot of good keyboards available which do just that.

But you should avoid a keyboard which does not feel and act like a real piano.  There are a lot of them out there, too, and for what I take to be your objectives should be avoided like the plague (which does not make them bad in any way -- just not appropriate to learn to play the piano!).

[ace_piano]

If I may make the assumption that someday down the road you will want to play a "real" piano, then the answer is... depends on the keyboard.  A keyboard would be fine -- provided that it has weighted keys and a reasonable approximation of the feel and action of a real piano.  There are a lot of good keyboards available which do just that.

But you should avoid a keyboard which does not feel and act like a real piano.  There are a lot of them out there, too, and for what I take to be your objectives should be avoided like the plague (which does not make them bad in any way -- just not appropriate to learn to play the piano!).

Could tell me some of the keyboard that ok to learn to play piano?

Thank you

[gvfarns]

At the end of the day any practice, even on a very subpar keyboard, is better than no practice. 

However, there are differences in authenticity between digitals.  The more authentic, the easier it is to transition to an acoustic.  Look for fully weighted actions as unweighted or semi-weighted actions can give you bad habits over time.  In my opinion the cheapest digital that makes the grade as far as being a good acoustic replacement is the Yamaha P155.  It is the cheapest piano to feature the GH action, which I think is a big step up from the lower end GHS action.

I do all my practicing on a digital, and then perform on both a grand and uprights (just at church...I'm not a professional or anything).  I have no problem whatsoever with the transition.  In fact, I think my digital is more similar to the grand than the upright I usually play on is.  Personally I play a Kawai MP8.  It has their wood action and I like it, but I played the predecessor to the P155 before and it was good too.

Acoustic pianos are good too, but very loud and very heavy, and they are never in tune.  Often they are in poor regulation as well.  If you can afford a good one and have a good space in which to play and not bother anyone, they can be real nice.