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Save your money! For two or three hundred, you won't get much good sound, or much, period.
For 1k, you can buy some pretty good keyboards. [the market is flooded with keyboards if you look at the catalogs.]
Do you want a workstation so you can sequence and record?
Do you just want a synth like mine? A DX-7 which is a marvelous keyboard. [but, of course, the DX-7 is not made anymore because better boards are made.]
There is a learning curve. It too me three years, three manuals, four cassette instructional tapes, and two DX-7 for Dummies, to learn how to manipulate my synth -- I love the DX-7. It was made out of steel not plastic -- but, that's not relevant.
You can go cheapo but your results will equal the ability and sound of the keyboard you buy. Go out and shop and listen and play the keys on all the synths you can. Research will save you money and most music stores have synths all hooked up {to great speakers of course] to lure you into buying.
Go for it.
Green Hornet