Anybody have any recommendations for a keyboard?

My wife wants to learn the keyboard and I
don’t have enough money or room to buy an acoustic piano. She won’t accept something like a tonal
plexus. Does anybody have a good
recommendation for a standard keyboard? I think Yamaha has lessons built right in. I don’t want something that is going to require constant
purchases of software, like the Suzuki Q Chord. On the other hand, it would be nice to have something that I can
program to taste and circumstances.

You can find 12 note per octave microtuning in some of the mid to high range Yamaha arrangers and digital pianos. Try looking over my list at microtonal-synthesis.com.

--
John Loffink
The Microtonal Synthesis Web Site
http://www.microtonal-synthesis.com
The Wavemakers Synthesizer Web Site
http://www.wavemakers-synth.com

Daniel Bernard wrote:
> My wife wants to learn the keyboard and I
> don’t have enough money or room to buy an acoustic piano. She won’t accept something like a tonal
> plexus. Does anybody have a good
> recommendation for a standard keyboard? I think Yamaha has lessons built right in. I don’t want something that is going to require constant
> purchases of software, like the Suzuki Q Chord. On the other hand, it would be nice to have something that I can
> program to taste and circumstances. >
>
>

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Daniel Bernard
<danielbernard13@...> wrote:
>
> My wife wants to learn the keyboard and I
> don’t have enough money or room to buy an acoustic piano. She
won’t accept something like a tonal
> plexus. Does anybody have a good
> recommendation for a standard keyboard? I think Yamaha has lessons
built right in. I don’t want something that is going to require
constant
> purchases of software, like the Suzuki Q Chord. On the other hand,
it would be nice to have something that I can
> program to taste and circumstances.
>
From Robert. Buy a Kurzweil. You can't go wrong.

On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 07:44 -0500, John Loffink wrote:
> You can find 12 note per octave microtuning in some of the mid to high
> range Yamaha arrangers and digital pianos. Try looking over my list at
> microtonal-synthesis.com.

You can find scale tuning on cheaper keyboards too. Not only Yamaha, but
Roland and other brands. (I don't know of any Casio keyboards with scale
tuning).

Also, they make special keyboards called "Oriental keyboards", designed
mostly for Middle Eastern music, and preloaded with Arabic, Turkish and
related instruments and rhythms. These have, in addition to the features
of conventional synths, a set of twelve buttons that shift the tuning of
a single note in the octave. By default, the value is 50 cents, but the
amount can be adjusted in many keyboards; typically by a value of -64 to
+63 in increments of one cent. (When a switch is off, the pitch is tuned
to its normal 12-TET value.) There should be several programmable bank
buttons for different tunings, typically three.

But with many keyboards, you can send a tuning dump from your computer
using software such as Scala, or a device. ~D.

Where are you? If you're in the UK, you can get wonderful pianos (sometimes - with any luck)
much cheaper than those clever plastic-flower keyboards.

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Daniel Bernard <danielbernard13@...> wrote:
>
> My wife wants to learn the keyboard and I
> don’t have enough money or room to buy an acoustic piano. She won’t accept
something like a tonal
> plexus. Does anybody hav a good
> recommendation for a standard keyboard? I think Yamaha has lessons built right in. I
don’t want something that is going to require constant
> purchases of software, like the Suzuki Q Chord. On the other hand, it would be nice to
have something that I can
> program to taste and circumstances.
>