Practising: Keyboard or Piano?

Practising: Keyboard or Piano?

Practising: Keyboard or Piano?

Full article at WKMT Blog Article. We strongly recommend reading it.

Many things have been said about using a digital piano to practice. Is it good or bad? Should we avoid it or should we try to understand how to use it beneficially? As everything in life, the outcome of using a digital piano practising will depend on our approach to its use.

Digital pianos or high-end keyboards can be fantastic if approached properly. They offer a neutral piano action. Simple as it sounds, it is fundamental when we are trying to set up the foundations of a piece. If we count with a flat instrument we can easily and reliably rehearse the full scope of movements necessary to produce a neat performance. Acoustic pianos have a very complex mechanism which can start behaving awkwardly quite easily. As opposed to the later, digital pianos are 100% reliable in that respect. The emulated piano action used to build digital pianos is in general far more resilient to the use.  Based on the last statement is that WKMT rehearsing rooms are equipped with top of the range digital pianos instead of acoustic ones.

The make “Kawai” offers one of the market’s best option in digital pianos. Yamaha has been historically the leader in digital piano production. Nevertheless, if you compare the sound quality, the action and the price of mid-range Yamaha digital piano with its Kawai counterpart, you will find out Kawai offers you much more for 40% less money. In spite of the fact that Kawai still has a long way to go before building pianos with the quality of acoustic Yamaha pianos, it has proven to be one of the world’s best producers of digital pianos.  After many years of experimenting with both brands, WKMT strongly recommends using Kawai digital pianos.