Home Keyboards

The home keyboard has evolved from electronic organs and electric pianos. The tones of this diverse keyboard instrument are generated electronically, electromechanically or digitally and are as diverse as the music itself. Modern home keyboards are available in all price ranges . The companies Yamaha and Casio offer excellent models for beginners and professional musicians.

Which home keyboard is right for a beginner

Home keyboards are generally very good instruments for anyone starting out making music. They offer the great advantage of all keyboard instruments because the tones are easy and clear to produce. The student just has to learn to assign the keys to the different sounds. The interested layperson can actually teach themselves the basics of playing the keyboard with the help of books or learning videos.
A home keyboard for beginners shouldn't have too many functions. With such an entry-level instrument , it is better to invest your money in the right sound. Because that's the only way the first successes are really fun.
Good entry-level devices include the Yamaha EZ-300 or the Casio CTK-4400. Both instruments have a keyboard of 61 keys and impress with their high-quality timbre. While the EZ-220 keyboard with “only” 392 sounds / tones outperforms a symphony orchestra many times over, the Casio CTK-4400 has 48-voice polyphony and a reverb effect button. Both keyboards can be operated with stereo headphones , so that the practitioner can feel completely undisturbed and unheard.

Professional home keyboards

The PSR-E453 Portable Keyboard is a particularly affordable and versatile keyboard for professionals and advanced amateurs. The instrument, which was named Keyboard of the Year in 2016, has 758 high-quality sounds / tones with 48x polyphony, including “Sweet!” and “Cool!” Voices.
Casio has very good professional models, as the Casio CTK-7200 proves. With its 820 powerful AHL sounds / tones and 260 varied rhythms, the instrument ensures the very best sound.

Even as a solo entertainer, you can play your own pieces with modern instruments from Yamaha or Casio , be a disc jockey and accompany many different occasions with the appropriate sound . If you also have a light-up keyboard , you can add visual highlights in addition to the musical enjoyment.

What should a good home keyboard include?

It should have a keyboard with at least 61 keys and a touch response . This gives beginners practice and offers professionals plenty of scope for individual design.
It should also have a registration memory that can be used to record and save sounds and accompaniment arrangements. It is particularly advantageous for a beginner if the home keyboard has built-in loudspeaker . If you don't just want to play with your home keyboard at home, you should make sure that the instrument can also be battery operation possible . However, it is important to make sure that the mains adapter including is included with the keyboard.

Another tip: If you can already play the piano, you should get a home keyboard with 76 keys. Because you can play significantly more piano pieces with it than with the 61 models. The 76 models are available from both Yamaha and Casio.