daugen
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I sent that xmas tractor pic to some friends, very cool.
need some help from my musician friends here.
Need a keyboard for church. We have a terrible old upright piano that has to be tuned each year and it's not a very good one either.
I think it's time to get into the 21st century where we don't have to tune the instrument. No one is attached to that piano, no one's grandmother
gave it, so much constant temp changes in that old stone building I'm thinking going full electronic may be better and less expensive long term. Tuning up a piano
is not cheap.
So...is this keyboard good enough for beginner and moderate pianists to play christmas carols and other fairly simple stuff?
We are unlikely to ever have choirs here but never say never.
I'm sure we would add a powered speaker to it
Amazon 71 is retail Yamaha 41 I think. identical. Yamaha would be well accepted brand name to most folks.
I remember selling huge Casio electronic keyboards almost 25 years ago. Some have a gazillion features. I need simplicity and good
tonal quality. Being digital I would assume final sound quality would depend upon speakers used.
Midrange seems most important, considering piano notes go up to about 4200hz. Now overtones will usually require a tweeter.
what I looked up I found interesting: The fundamental frequencies for the notes on a piano range from 27.5 Hz to 4186 Hz. The modern standard for tuning defines the frequency of the note A above middle C to be 440 Hz. Musicians refer to this as "A-440." It's the reference frequency used for piano, guitar, and all band and orchestra instruments.
if you want to hear what that sounds like:
do we need to spend two grand for the one with multiple floor pedals?
Portability is a plus here.
I know almost nothing about pianos. If you had asked me what the A-440 was I would have guessed at a freeway around Chicago...
need some help from my musician friends here.
Need a keyboard for church. We have a terrible old upright piano that has to be tuned each year and it's not a very good one either.
I think it's time to get into the 21st century where we don't have to tune the instrument. No one is attached to that piano, no one's grandmother
gave it, so much constant temp changes in that old stone building I'm thinking going full electronic may be better and less expensive long term. Tuning up a piano
is not cheap.
So...is this keyboard good enough for beginner and moderate pianists to play christmas carols and other fairly simple stuff?
We are unlikely to ever have choirs here but never say never.
I'm sure we would add a powered speaker to it
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Amazon 71 is retail Yamaha 41 I think. identical. Yamaha would be well accepted brand name to most folks.
I remember selling huge Casio electronic keyboards almost 25 years ago. Some have a gazillion features. I need simplicity and good
tonal quality. Being digital I would assume final sound quality would depend upon speakers used.
Midrange seems most important, considering piano notes go up to about 4200hz. Now overtones will usually require a tweeter.
what I looked up I found interesting: The fundamental frequencies for the notes on a piano range from 27.5 Hz to 4186 Hz. The modern standard for tuning defines the frequency of the note A above middle C to be 440 Hz. Musicians refer to this as "A-440." It's the reference frequency used for piano, guitar, and all band and orchestra instruments.
if you want to hear what that sounds like:
Portability is a plus here.
I know almost nothing about pianos. If you had asked me what the A-440 was I would have guessed at a freeway around Chicago...
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so now were at stand still just waiting for parts fluid filters decals....hope Santa can swing by before 12/23.
