Best portable digital piano for a pianist to practice on when not at home

[lpicado]

I have an upright piano to practice on at home, but  I would like to buy a digital piano for practicing when away from home but I am concerned about the efect of playing one of these on my tecnique and don't want to spend alot of money on a keyboard. I,ve been looking up the Korg SP 170S and some casios, but the Kawais have caught my attention. I need a portable keyboard that will let me improve my tecnique (I am an intermediate to Advanced student) so key action and responsiveness is very important.  Any suggestions and help will be greatly appreciated.

[hfmadopter]

Unless you practice a whole lot on the digital, as in more than you practice on the acoustic, I really don't think the digital is going to hurt your touch. it may be different if you are an all new player, have never played any piano, start with digital and one day land on the bench in front of an acoustic. Most of those people find the acoustic feeel unusual to them. I look at digital as an also own kind of tool, one where I could do arranging from etc. And while I would like as nice an action as I coujld get, it's not the total deal breaker for me.

That said, I've played both the Korg Sp 170 and 250 and they do not feel like acoustic action pianos feel. People here like them and hate them, so who knows where you will fall ! My suggestion, go play them all and then buy the one you like.


By most accounts people who like acoustic action, and also are experienced piano players like Kawai digital. I never hestitate to suggest Kawai, just try it out if you can.

[jimbo320]

As I tell most people with the same question. All I can go by is what I know so my suggestion is a Yamaha CP5. I play one on stage but I also practice on a C5 acoustic and the transfer to me is hardly noticeable.

[richard black]

You do kinda get what you pay for. I spent £1200 (about $1800, I guess) on a Roland keyboard just over a year ago. It's still only a keyboard, when all's said and done, but it's reasonably productive to practise on and makes a decent enough noise for accompanying opera rehearsals and similar jobs. And it's quite heavy, which makes it much pleasanter than lightweight keyboards which bounce all over the place when one plays, something I find maddeningly distracting.