Yamaha Weighted Keys Keyboard Piano Reviews

Yamaha Weighted Keyboard have keys that are harder, heavier and resemble those on a real piano. Here is a review of the weighted keyboards and pianos from Yamaha!

Weighted Keys Keyboard for Real Piano Like keys

Have you always been playing on synth-action keys, the ones which you find on most of the 61-keys keyboard?

If yes, you may find it a bit uneasy to play with proper weighted piano keys in case you decide to learn to play the piano.

But if you are a beginner and sure that you want to learn to play the piano, or an experienced player who is looking for a practice piano or for a gigging piano, then you have to go in for the graded hammer keys, if you want to experience the feel of real piano keys.

A Yamaha weighted keys keyboard will be perfect for you in that case, much better than synth action keys. Mind you, Yamaha makes some of the best digital pianos in business.

All the big names in the piano business are constantly trying to improve their digital pianos with the aim of getting that perfect sound and key touch. Though they are not there yet, it is just a matter of time before they get it all right on their digital pianos.

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Yamaha Graded Hammer Standard (GHS) vs. Graded Hammer Effect (GH / GHE) vs. Graded Hammer Effect 3 (GH3) vs Natural wood (NW)

In a Yamaha weighted keys keyboards, weights are added below the plastic keys to make them harder to play. This is done so that the feel is more like the keys on a Piano.

If you want proper piano keys, you need to consider Hammer action keys, which is an improvement over the Weighted Action as they actually use hammers inside.

Some of the Yamaha weighted-keyboards feature the graded hammer action which resembles the keys on an acoustic grand piano - keys are harder to play on the lower octaves and lighter on the higher octaves.

Hammer action keys usually adds to the weight of the keyboard, and they tend to cost more as well.

The key action on Yamaha digital piano keyboards fall in one of these types of piano action: Yamaha Graded Hammer Standard (GHS), Graded Hammer Effect (GH / GHE), Graded Hammer Effect 3 (GH3), and Natural wood (NW).

These are the names given to the various key actions by Yamaha to distinguish between their various pianos, with GHS being available on entry level piano keyboards whereas the NW is available on their top pianos.

Here is a Summary:

GHS - Graded hammer action available on Yamaha entry level models

GH or GHE - Graded hammer action on most of Yamaha’s mid-high end stage pianos

GH3 - Yamaha's new generation graded hammer action available on some of the Clavinova pianos

NW - Natural wood (white key) action available on the top Clavinova pianos

Summary - Yamaha Weighted Keys Keyboards

Compared to a synth-action keyboard, a Yamaha weighted keyboard with GHS or GHE action is a much better option to practice piano, if you have recently started learning to play the piano. On the other hand, if you want the closest experience to the real thing, go in for a graded hammer GH3 or natural wood action yamaha piano keyboard if you want the perfect acoustic piano feel.

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