"The Know-Your-Keyboard-Piano (KYKP) Site Explains All The Piano Related Jargon To Help You Make An Informed Buying Decision!"

Are you looking around to buy your first Piano... or a Keyboard?

Feeling clueless about the various features and the cost of these instruments?

Maybe, you have not yet decided what to buy... but you surely know that you have to buy a keyboard instrument.

Don't worry! It is easy to understand all the jargons that you may have encountered... like digital pianos, acoustic pianos, electronic keyboards, arranger keyboards, synthesizers etc.

And my intention is to make it easier for you to take a decision on what to buy… by providing you with unbiased and correct answers to all your queries.

This is the right place to find everything about Pianos and electronic keyboards!

• Should I go for an Acoustic or Digital Piano?
• Is there any difference in Digital, Electronic, Electrical Piano?
• Are Home and Arranger Keyboards the same?
• What about Synthesizers and Workstations? What are those?
• What Accessories do I need?
• What do I need to know before I buy?
• Which are the popular Brands?
• What about the Cost?

You will find answers to all these questions. You will also find a lot of reviews and relevant articles on this site.

This site gives you valuable advice that will allow you to make an informed buying decision. It will help you to buy what you need and not what the salesman wants to sell!

So why do you have so many different instruments available in the market and who uses them? To answer this question, you need to understand the growth of a keyboard player.

You would want to have a keyboard/piano of your own as soon as possible and once you have an instrument, you will sincerely practice all your lessons and would expect your teacher to teach you something new in every class.

But even with so much enthusiasm, it would still be a good idea to spend some time figuring out what exactly you want and how much you are willing to spend before you set out to purchase an instrument.

You definitely need to keep an eye on the cost as some of these instruments can be really expensive and you may not need it at this stage.

If you are looking for an electronic keyboard, the instrument you are most likely to buy will be one of the Casio CTK series or the lower models in the Yamaha PSR series. These keyboards are known as Home keyboards or Arranger keyboards. Home keyboards have lot of features to keep you busy with your learning process for quite some time and are reasonably priced.

If you are looking for a Piano, then you have got a lot of choices as there are many manufacturers who make good pianos - Yamaha, Korg, Kawai, and Roland are just some of the names.

But since some of these pianos are really expensive, most beginners go in for a digital stage piano, which is a far more affordable option.

The home keyboard which you had bought earlier will not be enough! You will even have to buy keyboard amplifiers to get a much bigger sound, in addition to buying accessories like cases and stands.

You will need a professional arranger keyboard if you intend to play as a one man band or if you are not going to have any percussionist to accompany you.

The professional arranger keyboards have such superior built in accompaniments and sounds that you can do a show all by yourself, if you can sing as well. Yamaha’s higher models in the PSR series, Technics and Korg have some very good sounding professional arranger keyboards.

If you have a proper band with a drummer, bassist and guitarist then you don’t need an arranger keyboard, a synthesizer should do the job. Synthesizers do not have built in accompaniments but they have very good sounds. You can tweak most of the sounds and create new ones.

This is where you need things like workstations, samplers and synthesizers.

A Workstation is a portable studio, which lets you do everything on one single instrument. It serves all your recording needs! But once you reach this stage your ears are constantly in the lookout for new sounds and that is the reason you end up with additional gears like samplers and synthesizers in your studio.

Besides, to stay competitive, you need to have the latest sounds in your repertoire. Of course, if you are getting paid for your work, you should not mind spending on new instruments.

Further, down the line if you get really serious about Keyboards, you will definitely end up owning multiple keyboards.

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