Recommend us a temporary keyboard for kids learning

[VEX]

We have access to a piano, it is at my FiL's but available to us when ever we want it, but we currently do not have the space.

So wife is looking at keyboards and thinking if we have that for a year or two or more then the kids can learn on it (5 & 7) and wife can get her fix.

She has fond a yamaha P35 with stand and other sh*t for £350 and at least this time she hasn't bought it before asking / telling me!

But either of us have a clue about these things, so once again I turn to the PH network for advise.

Ta,

V.

[lockhart flawse]

You won't go wrong with a Yamaha but you can get one from Ebay for £50 tops. I have two, both from Ebay, and have owned one for 9 years and the other 5 - both were about £35.00 and both work fine.

[Gokartmozart]

Have a look at the Casio and Yamaha YPT220 at Argos.

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5...


http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5...

[singlecoil]

If you've got a computer, then one way ahead is to buy a cheap Casio with touch sensitivity (I bought a 5 octave one for £32) connect it to a midi interface (Steinberg do one for about £100, and it's really good) then you can download various free synths into the computer. Connect the interface to your hi-fi and you can have all the sounds you want and in hi-fi quality. Buy a cheap sequencer program (many of which have built in sounds) and you can record what you are doing too.

Keyboards with on-board sounds are an expensive way of achieving a decent sound.