Can anyone recommend a keyboard that one can travel with?

[carsoste]

Hi:
I have a roll up piano that I take with me when I travel. Although, it works well and is enough for me to able to do some kind of practicing and fingering it's pretty limited. ( I can't do any writing on it, which is a bit frustrating and if I'm in a location where I may have to play live on a piano and I need to rehearse a little it's not that much help.)
I'm going to be away from my piano for about a month in a few weeks and I was just wondering, is there a keyboard that I can purchase that I can travel with? More specifically, I'm looking for something akin to a traveler guitar. An instrument that isn't too large that plays well and that I can take with me. Even more specifically, I'm looking for an instrument that possibly has a case it can be taken in, that fits in the back of an SUV that will have a bunch of big suitcases, an Ibanez Acoustic-Electric Guitar in it, and an ashbory bass.
If someone can offer any suggestions, I would be grateful.
Best Wishes,
carsoste

 

[Toddskins]

You really ought to be able to figure this one out on your own. You seem to already know enough about keyboards and portable controllers (which roll-up keyboard do you own now?).

Do you want a keyboard with sounds already in it, or are you going to control the sounds on your laptop computer's software with a MIDI controller?

Once you have that question answered, it's simply a matter of going to one of the big musicians' websites (Sweetwater.com, Musiciansfriend.com, SamAsh.com, etc.) and looking at their inventory.

I don't think anybody manufactures a weighted 61-note keyboard, and I'm not sure there is a 76-note version, either. Usually 76-notes are semi-weighted.

You claim to want the impossible - a portable travel keyboard for practicing piano scales. If you want a keyboard to simulate a piano, you're going to have to get an 88-keyboard with weighted keys.

Just start browsing and go to your local professional music store, and you'll figure it out.