Musical Keyboard Reviews - The Best Brands

The Best Musical Keyboard Brands & Series

Here we will talk about all the brands that make the best portable keyboards, with a focus on learners and intermediate players.

Read here for an exhaustive list of brands that make the best digital piano keyboards and synths for a wide range of players including experienced players and pros.

Best Musical Keyboard & Pianos for Beginners

There are a few more manufacturers that do make musical keyboards but they have a very few products. Yamaha and Casio keyboard series on the other hand have a very wide range of portable keyboards, even in the less than 200 dollar range.

When it comes to digital pianos though, you have a few more options. These can be pianos with basic set of sounds and weighted keys, and some may even have built-in styles.

Here, in addition to Yamaha, Casio, Roland and Korg, you still have a few more options. Again, all of these may or may not be available to you depending on which part of the world you live in.

Here are some of the popular series of musical keyboards available from Yamaha and Casio, and other brands.

Mini Keyboard
Casio mini keyboard
Good for kids, growing children and music teachers who want to probably buy 10 or 15 small keyboards for their class.

Lighted Keyboard
Casio LK lighted keyboard
Yamaha EZ Lighted Keyboard
These are good for growing children (they are obviously fascinated by the lighted keys) but suitable for adults as well (since they come with 61 standard keys).

Popular 61Key Musical Keyboards
Besides, the above series of keyboards from Yamaha and Casio, here are the more popular ones which are popular among serious learners and experienced keyboard players.

Casio CTK 61-Key Musical Keyboard
Yamaha YPT 61-Key Keyboards
Yamaha 61-Key PSR Keyboard

There are a few keyboards in YPT and PSR series that are very similar. Read here for the difference between Yamaha YPT music keyboards and Yamaha PSR music keyboards. Please note that the Yamaha PSR series has many more keyboards though, some of which are professional keyboards.

Kids Musical Keyboard Reviews

Depending on the age of your child, you may also choose toy pianos and musical keyboards that are available from the bigger names of the Toy industry.

Melissa & Doug & Fisher-Price

Usually, most of these toy musical keyboards are meant for 3 years and above. But even kids smaller than 3 years should find some these musical keyboards amusing (they are nontoxic), though it will be more useful to a 3 year old than your 18 month old.

Kids love music and these small-sized pianos makes it easy for your little ones to start playing (or rather banging) on the keyboard. The sound quality may not be the best but they are sufficiently in tune to play your favorite songs.

Melissa & Doug Learn-To-Play Piano
Melissa & Doug Band in a Box
Fisher-Price Little Step N' Play Piano
Fisher-Price Little Sing-Along Stage

Schoenhut PianosSchoenhut are popular for their small acoustic toy pianos. These are designed to look like real pianos but are much smaller and have far lesser keys. Usually toy musical keyboards and pianos come in 30 keys, 25 keys, 18 keys and even lesser keys.

So if your kid is a bit grown up, it makes sense to get one with 30 or 25 keys so that your child can continue to have fun with the keyboard instrument later on, when he/she can actually play something.

Schoenhut 25 Key Spinet with Bench
Schoenhut 30 Key Classic Baby Grand

Musical Keyboard Reviews - Best Brands

As mentioned, here are the popular ones...

Yamaha keyboards and piano reviews

Korg digital keyboards and pianos

Casio pianos keyboards reviews

Roland pianos and keyboards.

Other manufacturers of Musical Keyboards and Digital Pianos include:

Williams Pianos - Affordable range of Digital Piano Keyboards

Suzuki Piano - Leading manufacturer of Pianos!

Discontinued Music Keyboards and Pianos

Technics - Wide Range of Keyboards
Technics Digital Pianos - Good Control & Feel

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