Music Keyboards
How to Buy Music
Keyboards
There are so many musical instruments on
the market that buying a music keyboard can be a challenge
even for an advanced musician. Hopefully this guide will
help in your musical key board search. Nowadays,
no one but the wealthy and serious concert players buy
pianos anymore. Music keyboards have simply gotten too good
to resist.
Keyboard music is more versatile and
interesting than ever, and the possibilities will only
continue to grow. Buying a music keyboard is not an easy
thing, however. With all of the dazzling features, differing
technologies, and impressive layouts, it can be difficult to
pick out what you need. Without the guidance of an expert,
you could end up with something not suitable for your
purposes.
When I bought my first musical
keyboard, I didn't really have a clue. I knew that I wanted
to be in a rock band, but I didn't really understand what
that entailed. The music keyboard that I bought was pretty
good in some respects.
It was a midi-keyboard and was very
nice to have for composing music. The challenge was that it
didn't have a lot of effects to choose. It was a sort of
home work station music keyboard, not a performance
one.
Remember the Moog?
When I finally saved a little more
money, I started looking at Moog keyboards. I knew that they
made some of the best music keyboards – particularly
for electronic musicians.
I didn't really need a touch sensitive
keyboard like you do in classical music. I could control my
velocity with switches, and it wouldn't show up in most of
the kind of music I was playing anyway.
Classical Music Keyboards
The funny thing is that one of my good
friends actually had a completely parallel experience with
music keyboards to me. Unlike me, however, he was setting
out to study classical music.
The Piano Keyboard
Synthesizer
He did some research, went online, and
bought a pretty cool piano keyboard synthesizer, but the
instrument couldn't accomplish a lot of the things he needed
for his type music. The keys were not weighted, and the
triggers were not so sensitive. My friend could do
impressive things with the layering and sampling, but he
couldn't practice concert piano. As a result, his expensive
foray into music keyboards was for nothing.
Trading Keyboards for
Music
Fortunately, we knew each other. We
decided to trade music keyboards. Our keyboards were
approximately equivalent in price, and we both had what the
other needed.
He had a really fancy electronic
synthesizer keyboard That was great for playing live rock 'n
roll music. I had a touch sensitive, midi keyboard that was
excellent for home recording and concert piano.
Musically Happy Ever
After
We made the switch, and were both
happy with what we got. Now he's studying Beethoven and I'm
playing rock 'n roll. Imagine how we would sound together?
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