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.

The Casio Privia PX-200 88-Key Digital Piano is a compact piano you can squeeze in any place and in any room so its fairly easy to set up anywhere you go. This piano’s sound, particularly the grand piano, is very realistic. You get extra heavy keys (88 full-sized keys) that helps a lot in strengtening your playing fingers.

This piano has 128 note polyphony and an AIF triple sound engine. Take advantage of the piano’s advanced filtering which allows natural decay of tones just like a real acoustic piano. The bass-reflex speaker system also helps a lot in determining if you’re getting the right tones. However, they’re fragile so better get amps.

Expanded storage is not a problem thanks to the SD card slot and the USB connection. You have to get your own stand though as this is not included in the package.