Kawai L1

Hi,

Could I ask for some comments Advise, My son is 7 Years old and been going to piano lessons for a year, I myself is thinking about learning, but I enjoy mucking around with the computer and Digital Video.

I can go for a Kawai L1 which the local music teacher thinks its a mega buy at 1000 Euros, I was interested in a Yamaha PSR 290 which was for fun and for the boy to learn on.

What do I go for the Kawai or the Yamaha and why ?

Regards

To whom, you or the dealer?

I haven't seen or played them but if you really want your son (and yourself) to learn how to play piano I would stay away from both of them. On the pictures I have googled the Kawai L1 looks less stable than my Roland RD-600 on its portable stand and it has only 32-tone polyphony. 64 is the minimum today or you'll risk drop of notes when the old notes are still sustaining when you hit the new ones. The Yamaha PSR 290 is an entertainer keyboard not a digital piano. It has only 61 keys which might suffice at first but depending on the future repertoire might soon be too few. Besides that the keys are 'keyboard' keys. If you want to learn piano and cannot afford a piano or don't have enough space, buy a digital piano with weighted hammer keys. Do yourself a favor, google this newsgroup for 'Isako Hoshino' and 'FAQ' to get a first impression of the good ones, and check the various threads about digitals in this forum before you buy.

On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 15:58:15 +0100, 'Dave Collins'