Yamaha P60 Electric Piano

[KeithL]

Just a quick note to anyone out there thinking about getting a keyboard. I've been looking and pricing some of them for quite a while. I just got the Music 1 2 3 catalog in the mail listing the Yamaha P60 at $449.00 - the first time I've ever seen them listed under $599. Music 1 2 3 may not have any stock (I didn't bother checking) but many of the Musicians Friend stores and Guitar Center stores carry these, have a few in stock, and will price match. So if you've been looking to get a nice weighted-action keyboard and don't want something with all sorts of crazy voices you won't use anyway, you might want to check into this.

Keith

[hgiles]

I was interested in a P90. Do you know what the differences are??

[KeithL]

It has more voices, is more user-friendly in that it has a more comprehensive control panel built in, and it is 64 note polyphony as opposed to the P60's 32 note.
The P90 also has a list price over $1200.00 and a street price of about $1000.00 new right now. If you are an experienced piano/ keyboard player the upgrades might be worth the price difference but (IMO) for the vast majority of doublers out there the P60 at $449 is a much better deal if you can get it.

YMMV

Keith

[OnyxSax]

For the price of a P90, you could pick up a used Motif 7, which is a far more versatile keyboard. Even though it's been somewhat superceded by the Motif ES, the original Motif is still a very potent keyboard.

[Media Lint]

If you just want generic sounds and want to save some bucks the Alesis QS series is more than capable. It's easy to navigate too, better than many in a live setting. Since keys are my main instrument I'm rather picky and I don't own one, but I play my friend's QS8 in our live jam sessions and it's perfectly suited for doing the grunt standard fare sounds, mostly pianos and organs, while I have two synths for more synth sounds, the extreme other end with the nord and a karma. I wouldn't take it into a studio but it's great for performance.