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renjull posted:


How do you call the keyboard action of a Yamaha DX7 which feels it has a spring, a Roland XP-30, or a Yamaha PSR series keyboard? What I read in reviews say they have synth action, but it really is not very specific enough since obviously their feel is very different from each other. Thanks.

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Cicloide posted:


I have bought a used Yamaha S90 keyboard. I need a copy of the original CD. The sequencer software that comes there is not available for download.
There is no information about this at Yamaha Website.

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If you ever wanted to learn to play the piano, keyboard or organ, now is the time to give it a try.

There are many people that would like to play a keyboard instrument but never quite got round to it. Traditionally, if you wanted to learn to play the piano, you needed a piano and a piano teacher or piano lessons. Now we live in the 21st century, you can download your piano lessons and you can buy a roll up keyboard for less than thirty pounds.

For many people the expensive involved just to start piano lessons could be immense. For a start, you would need to buy a piano, which before modern keyboards could cost thousands of pounds. Then the cost of piano lessons on top of the cost of buying the piano is already proving to be very expensive and then, what if you don’t take to it, all that money wasted.

Now there is a new way

We live in a time when you can learn virtually anything. You can actually start to learn the piano for less than fifty pounds.

First, you buy yourself a beginner keyboard. This can be a roll up piano, which are incredibly cheap and don’t take up any room, because you can roll it up when you finished with it. Alternatively, you could buy yourself a used standard keyboard with a keyboard stand and there are literally hundreds of second-hand keyboards for sale every day on online auctions sites.

Next, download a piano learning course. Beginner courses start from five pounds to more advanced courses costing up to fifty pounds.

Do you need a piano teacher?

As a piano teacher myself I would have to say yes, but you don’t need a piano teacher right away. If after your initial expense of buying a keyboard and online piano lessons, you feel you could go further then yes absolutely try piano lessons with a teacher and then maybe buy a better piano/keyboard.

What if playing piano is not for you

If learning to play the piano is not for you, then its cost you about fifty pounds and not thousands. At least you can always say you gave it a try. Not everybody will take to playing the piano. On the other hand, what if you do take to it, what if you are a natural talent, you’ll never know until you try. So if you ever wanted to learn to play the piano, whatever your age, in today’s internet age it’s never been a better or easier time to start. You never know, you might have a hidden talent.

Mike Shaw is an organist and keyboard player and he sells musical instruments, sheet music and piano lessons. Please visit his sites for the Five Pound Piano Lesson and Audio and Video Piano Lessons.

Hannah H posted:


i really want to learn to play pianoo!!

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sajmosia posted:

Bonners Music Superstore one of the first UK public showings of the new Yamaha Tyros 3 at the East Sussex National Golf Club & Resort in East Sussex on Wednesday 8th October 2008.

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