How Digital pianos are quickly revolutionizing the world of music-making!
By Max Filkins/Family Piano
Digital pianos are on the cutting edge of music technology, with models currently being produced for all sorts of musicians: beginners, advanced, classical, jazz, popular, and everyone in between.
The quality of the digital pianos on the market today has exponentially increased in the last decade, producing beautiful-sounding instruments that can rival the joys of acoustic instruments.
Additionally, digital pianos combine the joys of playing a high-quality keyboard instrument with a wide variety of special features that can revolutionize the way a beginning pianist practices and the way an experienced musician performs.
What is the difference between the digital piano and the electric keyboard? While both are capable of producing a wide range of musical sounds, a digital piano is specifically designed to imitate the look and physical feel of the acoustic piano.
Digital pianos include all 88 keys of the traditional acoustic piano and these keys are weighted – meaning they are designed to have the same touch as the acoustic piano. It is for this reason that the digital piano is much more appropriate for anyone who is serious about learning to play the piano.
Practicing on an unweighted keyboard is simply not an option for students looking to improve their pianistic chops as the touch and feel of the keys, and the lack of pedals, means you’re essentially practicing on a whole different instrument than the one you are aspiring to play on. You wouldn’t practice on a recorder to learn the clarinet, would you?
Today’s digital pianos not only recreate the aesthetic beauty of the acoustic piano but offer up amazing features that not only can improve the quality of your practice time, but will allow for a wide variety of musical experimentation.
Digital pianos come with a built-in metronome feature to assist in keeping a steady rhythm, a must-have tool for any musician. They also allow you to record and playback music, which greatly helps your ability to understand how to improve our own playing while also allowing you to appreciate your beautiful playing from the listener’s perspective.
In addition, digital pianos allow you to play as many different instruments – strings, guitars, brass, synthesizers, choirs, harpsichords, or even as a full orchestra. The possibilities are endless and many digital pianos allow you to mix instruments or split the keyboard between different instruments allowing you to create endless combinations of beautiful sounds.
For the tech-savvy musicians among us, the digital piano can plug into your computer allowing for even more sounds to be produced and manipulated in addition to allowing for instant transcription of anything played on the keyboard into conventional musical notation.
Here at Family Piano Co, we offer an impressive range of some of the best digital pianos on the market today at very generous prices. We also offer warranties and repair services for our digital pianos that will greatly increase their optimal life-span. Stop by at Family Piano Co and see for yourself what the cutting-edge of music technology has to offer you!