Electronic Piano - Jargons Explained

Thinking of buying a Digital Piano Keyboard Instrument?

What are you looking for?

Maybe you know to some extent what digital keyboard instrument you want to buy...but need help to decide what brand to buy, what features to look for?

It can be a bit unnerving, since you can have keyboards just for fun playing, or you can use it for complete music production or for creating fireworks onstage as a music performer.

Moreover people can them by different names electric pianos, electronic pianos, digital piano keyboards and so on. They all basically mean the same, though several years back some distinction did exist, today there is a lot of similarities between these various electronic piano instruments.

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Arranger Electronic Keyboards
To begin with, you need to know that pianos that come with built-in rhythms are known as arrangers. These piano keyboards have several accompaniments based on all the popular music genres.

In addition to the various rhythms, these music keyboards also have several voices, effects, built-in sequencer to record your music, and several output options for connecting to the computer, amps or to storage devices.

You can read all about electronic arranger keyboards here!

Electronic Pianos
These are meant for those who want to buy a piano but for some reason cannot afford a real piano. These are interchangeably called as digital pianos, electronic pianos, and electric pianos. Though when it comes to pianos, digital piano is the more commonly used term.

Here you have options of pianos with arranger type features or just simple piano without all the bells and whistles that comes in an arranger.

You also have options of semi-weighted keys or the proper piano like graded weighted keys.

You can read more about digital pianos here and the various types of piano actions like synth, weighted, hammer, graded hammer keys

Synthesizer Capabilities
Besides the above mentioned piano keyboards which contain more of the bread and butter sounds, you also have piano keyboards that come with synthesizer like features. These electric pianos & keyboards help you to create unique sounds and are used extensively for music creation.

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