Buying Keyboard, Need Help!

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We need to buy a new keyboard for live performances.

We are ONLY looking for extremely high quality piano and electric piano effects, we dont need anything else such as synths, beats and crazy gadgets etc..( I have a Roland mc-303 and 909 to do this..)



Its just about the piano and the e.piano(fender Rhodes/Wurlitzer type), also since it will be gigged on a regular basis it can't weigh a tonne, oh yea and it must have weighted keys and some sort of sustain pedal



Ive seen a few Roland keyboards like these and they look very compact and simple, with only about six knobs and buttons and a volume but ive heard they're quite old and probably expensive

Any help/advice that anyone cud give here would be much appreciated, and as far as price goes, this is not as important as quality as this is something we're going to have to purchase at some stage anyway.

Thanks a lot
 
Masterjazz said:
it can't weigh a tonne, oh yea and it must have weighted keys
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Thats an oxymoron. If its got a full weighted keyboard, its not going to be very easy to carry.

Boards that come to mind are the Yamaha P-120,250 and S08.
 
Yea i know its not going to be easy to carry round but what i meant was that it had to be portable, not for home use like.

BUt thanks i checked these out,the P-120 seems very much what we'd be looking for but may be a bit out of our price range( it was 1359 Euros) which is'nt bad. Anything similar for just under or around the 1000 mark?? Thanks
 
Not sure about the price but KORG makes some great keyboards with just a few sounds (piano, rhodes, electric piano)

Take a look at their SP series (200, 300, 500)

Portable + weighted keys.

I can't recall the model but I've seen a KORG controller with weighted keys and only two sounds, price was around 250.00 US. that plus a simple sound module for piano and rhodes (Roland JV1010) might be a good solution - pretty affordable setup.

Let us know what you go with.
 
I second the KORG gear...I've got a Triton Studio...awsome piano and organ sounds plus all the other stuff you weren't looking for. Try one out at a GC sometime.
 
I'll second the Yamaha P and S series. I really like their action the best.
 
Thanks for the help and advice, just to let u know I've tried out all of the above and I've just ordered a Yamaha P-90 which i dont think anyone mentioned but is basically the P-120 without the speakers and since it's just for gigging this suits me perfectly. Thnks again for the help!
 
Masterjazz said:
Thanks for the help and advice, just to let u know I've tried out all of the above and I've just ordered a Yamaha P-90 which i dont think anyone mentioned but is basically the P-120 without the speakers and since it's just for gigging this suits me perfectly. Thnks again for the help!
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"You can't touch a Triton for $1000.

I'm repeating myself here when I say look a the Yamaha S08.

http://www.yamahasynth.com/products/s08/index.html

The P-90 looks promising as well:

http://www.yamahasynth.com/products/p90/index.html"
 
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