Musical Instruments Review

The Yamaha YPG-625 88-Key Weighted Action Portable Grand Keyboard is an excellent instrument both for practice, live playing and even for recording. It is reasonably priced too at $699.99.

Yamahas’ YPG-625 has 500 realistic instrument voices and 150 accompaniment styles. If you want expressive playing then the hammer-action 88 keys that are weighted will make your playing more natural. Plus, the keyboard’s databse can hold as many as 267 song records allowing you to set the keyboard to a specific genre.

Connectivity is great and with the USB you can easily connect your keyboard to your PC. You can also use the USB connection to use the memory stick storage. With these features you can efficiently create your own songs.

There is also a Yamaha Survival Kit 88 to add to your purchase which woudl entitle you to a watch&learn DVD, stereo headphones, grand piano key cover anda three-year extended warranty.

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The Dave Smith Instruments Prophet ‘08 Synthesizer is feature-packed but reasonably-priced at $1999. This keyboard has a sonic character, 100%$ analog signal path and an 8-voice synthesizer. Expect every performance to be great with thus analog synthesizer’s aftertouch and velocity.

The Prophet ‘08 boasts of a 5-octave keyboard, 256 programs that are fully editable consisting of two layers of sepearate sounds for each program. It has an arpeggiator, 16×4 gated step sequencer, two analog oscillators that are digitally controlled, white noise generators, three envelope generators and one analog curtis low-pass filter per voice.

Connectivity is not a problem with his keyboard as it has ports for MIDI in, out, thru and Poly Chain, main stereo audio output, output B stereo audio output, sustain pedal input, headphone output and pedal/CD input.

The Mapex Saturn Plus Bass Fusion Pop 22 7-Piece Drum Set is available in very attractive colors you might be tempted to get more than one. The Electric Berry Burst Sparkle is such a royal addition to any music den and it will definitely be a scene stealer if you use it for gigs. And then there’s the Electric Blue Sparkle Lacquer and the Root Beer Burst Sparkle Lacquer…

These are definitely very beautiful drums and that may be because they were hand-crafted. But not only that because the drum set also boasts of a wide range of tone that’s great for studio use or even for live gigs. Every professional Mapex artist who knows his drums well has road tested these drums so you can be assured that they are of quality.

What makes the drums unique is the highly amazing finishing process which includes eight hand-rubbed coats using high gloss lacquer. The drums also boasts of the Mapex Powerhoops which is made of chrome steel thus providing less resistance but not to the point of muting the drums.

Go choose your color now or should I say colors?

The Sound Percussion SP 4-Piece Drum Set is already a great buy at $249.99 considering that it has lots of features that you can already find in drums sets that are priced twice as much.

This drum set is actually ready to go for a gig or a practice even if you have just opened the box. It boasts of shells made of Asian mahogany that is cross-laminated. Teh set includes a 5×13 inches snare drum, 15×13 inches floor tom, 12×9 inches tom tom and a 20×16 inches bass drum.

The drums have double-braced stands that are greatly stable because of the triple chrome plating. They are also very attractive and comes with superior finish.

You have to look for matching Cymbals though since these are not included.

The Yamaha RGX A2 Electric Guitar boasts of being a study of contrast—it is light in terms of physical construction and yet ultra heavy when it comes to tone. The white color makes it simple but very attractive esecially for those who want thier instruments clean and uncluttered.

The volume knobs of this electric guitar are surrounded by LEDs in blue and free colors. It adds a contrasting look to the immaculate white internal resonance body. It is made of bolt-on maple neck, rosewood fretboard, die-cast cylindrical tuners and Dual Yamaha alnico humbuckers.

Yamaha has just shattered the conventional thinking that when it comes to electric guiitars, the heavier ones produce the best sounds. Yamaha’s Alternative Internal Resonance, or A.I.R. is a revolutionary concept that has come of age and you can see this become real with the Yamaha RGX A2 Electric Guitar.

The Alvarez MD5000 Masterworks Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar boasts of a dreadnought body style in solid Brazilian rosewood and a solid Englelmann Spruce top. It has an ebony fingerboard and a 12F Oval fingerboard inlay that mixes well with the Maple body binding and gold die cast tuning machines. This acoustic guitar has a natural finish and an Abalone soundhole rosette.

The Alvarez MD5000 Masterworks Acoustic Guitar has been carefully handcrafted and is a great work of art both inside and out. It is an attractive guitar with that musical power to bring your music to new heights. It boasts of an exceptional tone that’s brought about by a bass that’s so tightly focus and a powerful sustain.

You can expect maximum playability from this guitar thanks to the impeccable frets.

The Ibanez SZ320EX Electric Guitar boasts of a revolutionary design that’s packed with awesome sounds! This guitar boasts of a slim body but a thick neck, actually a 25.1 scale neck. This is matched by a Gibraltar III fixed bridge that is so simple it rocks. The Ibanez SZ320EX has a multiple-binding mahogany body and a maple top.

This electric guitar has a rosewood fingerboard, a Duncan Ibanez Neck PU and Bridge PU and an Abalone Dot Inlay. It is heavier in weight but the S-shaped contour makes up for everything else.

Expect tonal balance and greater sustain from this guitar.