keyboard or piano both have own pros and cons. If you have budget constraint, go for keyboard, better than nothing as practice make perfect! Or else, go for the piano~

hi, it's been so long and i have been so busy with work till i forgot about my piano/keyboard interest.

What are the price range of a piano? It could be either new/second hand. I saw some in Yamaha Subang Parade but those are like 5 digits.

About RM5000 for used yamaha. You can get other used piano at RM 2000

Used piano ranges from RM1500 to RM12000. It depends on the brand, playing for pleasure or examinations. If you have any questions, you can PM for advises. Thank you

keyboard, u can even plug in an headset to play so u wont bother other ppl else

http://www.ptg.org/userfiles/file/learning...usticPianos.pdf

hv fun

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Added on August 22, 2012, 4:26 pmacoustic piano too can have that feature installing a system/devide called "silent system" plus midi in/out, plus 127 GM and many more, while maintaining the feel of an acoustic piano.

This post has been edited by jhp: Aug 22 2012, 04:26 PM

Before you buy anything you should know what you are planning to achieve. Like what sort of music or playing style you're looking for.

Casual? Or into serious classical music?

*you can't play classical music with a keyboard. I mean you can, but the touch isn't there and you don't have enough keys

Hi all, thank you for the advises and feedback.

For me it's more of my personal interest and it should be more of modern songs.

I've sort of decided to start with keyboard first for now and see how it goes.

After doing some reading over the net, i was considering the Yamaha PSR E433 but when i visited Yamaha, they said PSR S650 would be a better choice if i'm thinking of long term. The price is also double.

This is the part where i can't make up my mind, what do you think?

I'm just going to start.

Remind me of my cousin buying a RM12k piano when she is just starting to learn piano.. she is not even sure she is gonna like it as a hobby or not. just buy a average piano can dy, all my siblings including me finish our gd8 with an average piano.

This post has been edited by felixyukito: Oct 2 2012, 12:55 PM

The only worry i have when buying second hand items are the warranty. Based on what i've read spare parts are really high for electronic musical instruments.

That's why i was opting for a new unit.

Hi all,

I'm considering an used keyboard too for now because i'm worried i can't make a 100% commitment at the moment due to work.

What are the things to look for when getting a used keyboard? Besides the warranty & condition, what should a beginner like me look for? Any recommended places to get one? (I don't think Yamaha centers sells second hand if i'm not wrong)

In my terms and my opinion, Keyboard is keyboard,piano is piano(same as digital piano)its a huge different.
Keyboard you can mess with much more sound and voices,rhythm and style,arrangement to different genre of a music.
Of course,most of the terms keyboard is less than 88 Standard piano Keys which is 49,54,61,76 keys are perfect for gigging. Those are called "keyboards". For piano, 88 keys. Sure they are a lot of different voices,styles and rhythm for today DIGITAL piano but,piano is something involving classical piano piece. Only PIANO,no other sound involve.

Thanks for the feedback.

Based on some research that i did, second hand keyboards are not that cheap either. For example, a PSR233, 333 and 423 are a couple of hundred cheaper only compared to a new keyboard and the warranty is almost expiring (based on the survey i did in the trade zone).

Now i'm thinking, PSR E433 or PSR S650 (i heard a new model might be out soon, true?)

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Added on November 13, 2012, 5:49 pmHi,

I don't think i'll be playing classical music much, it's more for modern music.

Thanks for the feedback

This post has been edited by silverwave: Nov 13 2012, 05:49 PM

keyboard la...

reason: budget constraint

ya la, they also dun have enough piano to accomodate many students i think..

piano damn expensive.. but what he said is true maaa... keys are all the same onli.. sound only.. if piano bit more authentic la