keyboard recommendations

[TheTitans]

I need to purchase a keyboard. I'll just be using the keyboard for practicing scales, do vocal exercises, and learn perfect pitch. Can anyone recommend a keyboard that suits my needs? I don't need anything fancy. Only looking to spend around a hundred or so.

 

[dintymoore]

You see them on Craigslist that would be fine for what you're talking about for dirt cheap. like $50.

I'd try to get anything that was 61 note and velocity sensitive with built in speakers.

Yamaha is generally better than Casio, but for what you're talking about it shouldn't matter.

 

[darrin_h2000]

Im surprised how little the Fatar stuff is selling for...and I think it is amoung the best keyboards out there.

 

[TheTitans]

Craigslist isn't my thing. I prefer ebay.

Would something like this be any good?

 

[mjbphotos]

If you're not keyboard-trained, that might be fine - note the "LK" in the serial number refers to lighted keys (they have a keyboard-learning program in this style).

Note: you cannot learn perfect pitch, you either have it or you don't.

 

[dintymoore]

Craigslist isn't my thing. I prefer ebay.

Would something like this be any good?

That's perfect.

The only thing I see that it doesn't have is USB if you wanted to hook it up to your computer later, but that wasn't on your list of wants.

mjbphotos - check out David Berge's course on perfect pitch... it seems like most of us have it but we haven't learned how to use it. Ever notice a friend can call up and just make a noise and you can tell it's them? That's an example. After my brief experience with his course all the notes sound very different from each other to me. Like a B compared to a Bb - B is like a buzzer and Bb is a warm fat pig! I thought perfect pitch was a born-with-it thing, and it for sure often is (I've known 4 such people - and 3 were in the same family) I think most of us can develop how to hear it.

 

[darrin_h2000]

Craigslist isn't my thing. I prefer ebay.

Would something like this be any good?

I love Craigslist...if I want something I can drive across town and pick it up...and test it to my satisfaction...and maybe get an erotic massage on the way home.

 

[darrin_h2000]

If you're not keyboard-trained, that might be fine - note the "LK" in the serial number refers to lighted keys (they have a keyboard-learning program in this style).

Note: you cannot learn perfect pitch, you either have it or you don't.

If it has speakers and lighted keys...its a toy...you might as well tell him to buy a pianosaurus...lol.

 

[TheTitans]

That's perfect.
mjbphotos - check out David Berge's course on perfect pitch... it seems like most of us have it but we haven't learned how to use it. Ever notice a friend can call up and just make a noise and you can tell it's them? That's an example. After my brief experience with his course all the notes sound very different from each other to me. Like a B compared to a Bb - B is like a buzzer and Bb is a warm fat pig! I thought perfect pitch was a born-with-it thing, and it for sure often is (I've known 4 such people - and 3 were in the same family) I think most of us can develop how to hear it.

Exactly.

If it has speakers and lighted keys...its a toy...you might as well tell him to buy a pianosaurus...lol.

lol nice... but I'm looking for something a little more professional.

I think this keyboard would work nicely too. It's only $10 more and provides more functions.

 

[skiscem]

what about a midi/usb controller, you can get programs with any sound you want and i believe some are free, plus with all the options of difital intruments out there, you can find the sound you want

 

[darrin_h2000]

I paid $100 used for this one...its a hammer action with real piano feel...you can run a midi cable to most soundcards and use the soft synths that come with them.