On Wednesday, May 26, 2004 at 6:44:10 AM UTC-6, Graham Wood wrote:

I'm looking to purchase a digital piano. My selection criteria are (in order of importance)

1. Full size keyboard
2. Piano like sound (at least one that inspires me to play more, others
are nice to have)
3. Weighted Keys
4. at least 32 note polyphony
5. Portability as I have limited space available
6. on board speakers for the same reason (plus convenience).
7. Reasonable price (under 1000 Euros if I can manage to get it to my
house in Ireland for that price)
8. Midi connectability
9. Onboard sequencer
10. Pleasant appearance

I've been surfing the net for a few months and lurking here for a couple
of weeks. I've tried a Yamaha P60 and I thought the feel of the piano
was strange at first but the tone was lovely after I got used to the
weight (I'd been used to playing a terrible electric keyboard).

As far as I've been able to learn from the available bumph, the
differences between the P60 and the more expensive P120 or P250 are all
in the extra bells and whistles like an extra few thousand notes
storable in the sequencer or lots more voices I'll probably never use.
I've ruled out the P80 and P90 as they've no speakers built in.

Can anyone tell me why I should not buy a P60? I tried out a Casio PS20
and marginally prefered the action but it was significantly dearer. I
also didn't try them in the same place on the same day so it was hard to recall one while playing the other.

Does anyone have a P60 that they hate and wish they'd never bought?

Thanks

Graham

I've owned my P60 since 2004, and have come to realize I didn't make a good choice. The sound quality is fine, but the weighting of the keys is excessive - to the point of "clunky", when the note reaches the bottom of its travel, and that has a somewhat
negative impact on my accuracy of playing- very frustrating. And that's bad, since I do all my piano playing gigs with this instrument, because it's portable. My Yamaha clavinova has an ideal key weighting, and I practise on it, but I can't take it out
to play, because it's too big and heavy. Yamaha made another huge blunder on the design of the P60. they didn't include a separate output jack for amplification; the combined headphones/output jack, if you want external amplification, cuts out the on-
board speakers of the instrument, and I don't like having the sound of the instrument sucked away from me so I have difficulty hearing what I'm playing. Yamaha really should have known better; this was a cheap, unjustified cost-cutting strategy that
detracts from the usability of the instrument.

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