Keyboard for daughter

[Robin_Hood]

Nice to meet you, folks. Not sure if that's the right place but stil. I was choosing a keyboard for my daughter (10 years old), found this list: primesound.org/best-keyboard-kids
But I am not a musician at all, neither my friends. So, I'd appreciate your thoughts or your experience. We have not much place for a piano. The teacher told us that 88 keys is a must, and nothing else matters. Is that true?

[nickb]

Smells like link building spam to me...

[nosaj]

Nice to meet you, folks. Not sure if that's the right place but stil. I was choosing a keyboard for my daughter (10 years old), found this list: primesound.org/best-keyboard-kids
But I am not a musician at all, neither my friends. So, I'd appreciate your thoughts or your experience. We have not much place for a piano. The teacher told us that 88 keys is a must, and nothing else matters. Is that true?

Pretty much....kinda of like a bicycle anything more is bells and whistles. Learn to play on 88 keys and you can walk up to any piano and go to it.

nosaj

[Mick Bailey]

Keyboard for daughter? That doesn't seem like a fair swap. I'd want nosaj's bicycle thrown in as well, so long as really did have bells and whistles.

[Chuck H]

If this is for "piano lessons" then weighted and velocity sensitive keys would be nice features. These are available on several affordable models I looked at. Though it may be tougher to find both those features in a keyboard with built in amplification. And that too would be a good feature for the time being.

[Enzo]

88 keys is a must? For a 10 year old? I know PLENTY of professuional keyboard men who play on common 63 note keyboards. How many songs need the last octave at either end?

[Chuck H]

It may be for "proper" piano lessons. In which case the instructor may be getting snobby about it. But I agree in principal.

[Enzo]

Can a 10 year old even reach end to end on an 88?


For kids, I always caution that they are kids, and while piano may seem really interesting now, a month later it is off the radar, and we now have a noce keyboard to sit potted plants on. I never advise someone to buy their kid a $4000 Gibson as a first guitar.

I took piano for a few years when I was about 7 or 8 until maybe 11. Over 60 years ago, I still remember the theory, but can no longer sight read. Hell I don't even recall the notes on the clefs. But I always have fun with keyboards that come in, especially like the PSR series from Yamaha. Any with the accompaniment, more fun to play.

When I first got a guitar, the friend I bought it from said"You will get frustrated at first." SO he showed me how to open tune the guitar, that way I can practice until I am tired of it. Then I can open tune and have a pleasing sound to strum and kinda makes the effort worth while. A fun keyboard might help a young learner get through the rough spots in similar fashion.

Just my opinion.

[g1]

nosaj, the link you edited out appears in your quote.

[Chuck H]

Can a 10 year old even reach end to end on an 88?

That made me laugh a little. I think they could, it would be difficult to play though. Fun to watch But then I don't think playing at both ends simultaneously happens that often. Even adult players scootch back and forth to get onto the keys. That's why there's a flat, smooth bench instead of a stool I suppose.

[Enzo]

I recall a story, and I am pretty sure it was Rachmaninov, that the guy had a very wide reach - long fingers - like an octave and a half or something. And he purposely wrote songs that relied on that reach so that average players would have difficulty playing.

[Chuck H]

I recall a story, and I am pretty sure it was Rachmaninov, that the guy had a very wide reach - long fingers - like an octave and a half or something. And he purposely wrote songs that relied on that reach so that average players would have difficulty playing.

I almost mentioned him. Sometimes I listen to classical music at work and every time one of his pieces airs it sounds like the pianist is having a spastic seizure.

[g1]

Can you duet with less than 88 ?
Maybe this instructor is very hands on. Like the drivers ed cars with 2 sets of controls.

[Enzo]

Certainly you can.