61 key keyboard - Your first musical keyboard!

61 key keyboard - This is very likely to be your first musical keyboard, unless Of course you want to play the piano. With a 61 key keyboard, you should be able to play a lot of songs and musical pieces of considerable complexity. It should keep you busy for a long time!

Get at least 61 keys
Besides the standard 61 key keyboards, you do get keyboards with lesser number of keys (Casio makes them) but then your learning will be limited to playing with your right hand only. You cannot use your left hand to play the chords, which is not a very good thing to do. So, get at least a 61 key keyboard if you are serious about your keyboard playing!

Musical Styles and Sounds
With 61 key keyboards, you will get hundreds of musical styles and sounds. So after you know a few songs, you can play them with a variety of musical styles, ranging from classical to modern. You should be able to impress a lot of people with these styles and sounds. These keyboards will even contain a basic sequencer to let your record your song, so just let your imagination go wild!

Accessories
Accessories like Adapters, Stands, Cases, Headphones and Pedals are available, which can be bought. Though an Adapter is needed to switch your keyboard on, I feel the other accessories can be bought later as needed. For beginners, pedals are not needed at all but you can consider buying a stand and a case as it gives you the option to move around your keyboard.

Various Brands
There are a lot of manufacturers in the market who make good musical keyboards. For this size keyboard, you can explore Casio, Yamaha or Roland. Casio's CTK-series, Yamaha's PSR-series and Roland's E-series have some of the popular 61 key keyboards. The cost of the models in these series will differ based on the features offered as well as on the quality of the sound.

By the way, a keyboard with 61 keys is also known as a 5-Octave keyboard. One octave contains 12 keys (7 white plus 5 black) so this makes it basically a 5 Octave keyboard (the one extra key is ignored).

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