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Learn to play piano: a device or an acoustic piano?

If I have to choose between buying an acoustic piano or digital piano what is the best choice? take a look at the different choices if you want to learn to play piano.

Personally, I have not been forced to choose between buying a normal upright piano and a digital piano I have both in my house. I can see advantages in both types of piano practicing the art of learning to play the piano.

A normal upright piano produces sounds with hammers that strikes the strings. A digital piano other attempts to replicate the feeling of playing an acoustic piano.

Most people are familiar with the normal upright piano but what advantages has a digital piano?

First we will describe a digital piano.

A digital piano consists of a keyboard with weighted key action, sensors that detect the speed when you play the keys and a set of sounds you can choose. To make it possible to play the piano when you play, you have an amplifier and speakers and headphone jack.

Here are some advantages with a digital piano:

1. A digital piano does not need to be resolved. A normal acoustic piano you have to adjust once or twice a year. If you can not tune a piano you turn to a piano tuner. It can be very expensive, of course. Even a piano tuner has to pay its bills.

2. You can practice in silence. A digital piano in general has a headphone jack and using a headset, you can practice all you want without disturbing the neighbors or family members.

3. Midi interface. Digital piano generally has a MIDI interface that allows you to connect your piano to a computer and music software programs used as scoring or program sequenser or software synthesizer.

What are the disadvantages of having a digital piano?

1. The sounds of a piano Sound is produced by vibrating strings and different locations interact so that you can not copy on a digital piano. The sound quality sounds generated by digital pianos are getting better, but it is still a completely different way of producing sounds.

2. Digital piano is limited when it comes to produce different tone colors by different ways to play. A pianist might feel limited by the sampled sounds.

There are many more things to say about choosing a piano, but it's a start.

As you can see, it is not so easy to decide what is best for you. If you can not decide what type of piano to buy what you can do what I did. Both types of pianos and keep smiling.

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Used Roland Fr-1 V-Accordion Piano Or Button Type White 886830102479 $1274.15 The revolutionary Roland V-Accordion FR-1 (piano style) or FR-1B (button type) is perfect for young beginners and music schools, yet its uncompromising sound quality makes it ideal for stage performers and keyboardists too. The ultra-light, smaller sized accordion has a long battery life (uses 8 x "AA" type 2000mAH Ni-MH batteries) to provide you with over 5 hours of performance per pack.Make Your FR-1/1B UniqueRoland V-Accordions come with 6 variations of inlay sheets that enable you to change the appearance of yours whenever you like. You can also create your own custom-designed inlay sheets using your printer and A4 sized paper or by using any kind of commercially designed paper.Play Anytime and AnywhereWith high-quality earphones included in the FR-1/FR-1B package the V-Accordion is extremely convenient for practicing at night and without disturbing your family or neighbors.Advanced Musical ExpressionWith the Roland FR-1/1B, you can simulate up to 7 different accordions. With the innovative 4 Organ presets (Harmonic Bar) and rotary effect, you can produce amazing organ sounds as well. You can even play your own beats, adding drums with the bass and chord buttons.Extremely lightweight and portableInstantly switch between classic accordions, tunings, and orchestral instrumentsBuilt-in reverb, chorus, rotary, and effectsIdeal for young students and stage performersKeyboard & BellowsRight hand: 26 keys, velocity sensitive (starting at B key)Left hand: 72 velocity-sensitive buttonsBellows: Real pneumatic detection of bellows pressure (high-resolution pressure sensor), bellows resistance regulatorSound SourceMaximum polyphony: 128 voicesTones: 7 accordion sets (each including: 8 Treble registers, 3 Bass registers, 3 Orchestra Bass registers, 3 Orchestra Chord registers, 4 Orchestra sounds, 4 Organ sounds)Treble reed footages: 4Bass reed footages: 5Chord reed footages: 3PBM (Physical Behaviour Modelling)Noises: stopping-reed growl, closing valve noise, left button noiseIndividual reed simulation: hysteresis threshold, Expression curve, pressure-variant filter, pressure variant pitch deviationReed sound wave switching: by bellows acceleration, by note repetition speedMusette Tuning:Micro tuning presets: 15 (Dry, Classic, F-Folk, American L/H, North Europe, German L/H, D-Folk L/H, Alpine, Italian L/H, French, Scottish)EffectsReverb: 8 typesChorus: 8 typesRotary: Slow/Fast (for organ sounds)Panel Controls:Knob controls: Volume/powerRegisters: 4x Treble, Orchestra, Organ, Set, 3x Bass, Orchestra Bass, Orchestra ChordButtons: Orchestra/Organ, Orch Bass, Orch Chord, Left Register, Drums/Default, Song/Demo, User Prog/Dec, Metronome/Inc.Operation Mode:Bass 2Bs Rows, 3Bs Rows A-7th, 3Bs rows A-5dim, 3Bs Rows B-7th, 3Bs Rows B-5dim, 3Bs Rows BxTreble modes (Button-type): C-Griff Europe, C-Griff2, B-Griff Bajan, B-Griff Fin, D-Griff 1, D-Griff 2 -Octave: Down (-), 0, Up (+) (for Treble, Orchestra and Organ)Drums: 4 drum/percussion setsSong: 4 preset songs wit

Roland Fr-1 V-Accordion Piano Or Button Type White Button $1599 The revolutionary Roland V-Accordion FR-1 (piano style) or FR-1B (button type) is perfect for young beginners and music schools, yet its uncompromising sound quality makes it ideal for stage performers and keyboardists too. The ultra-light, smaller sized accordion has a long battery life (uses 8 x "AA" type 2000mAH Ni-MH batteries) to provide you with over 5 hours of performance per pack.Make Your FR-1/1B UniqueRoland V-Accordions come with 6 variations of inlay sheets that enable you to change the appearance of yours whenever you like. You can also create your own custom-designed inlay sheets using your printer and A4 sized paper or by using any kind of commercially designed paper.Play Anytime and AnywhereWith high-quality earphones included in the FR-1/FR-1B package the V-Accordion is extremely convenient for practicing at night and without disturbing your family or neighbors.Advanced Musical ExpressionWith the Roland FR-1/1B, you can simulate up to 7 different accordions. With the innovative 4 Organ presets (Harmonic Bar) and rotary effect, you can produce amazing organ sounds as well. You can even play your own beats, adding drums with the bass and chord buttons.Extremely lightweight and portableInstantly switch between classic accordions, tunings, and orchestral instrumentsBuilt-in reverb, chorus, rotary, and effectsIdeal for young students and stage performersKeyboard & BellowsRight hand: 26 keys, velocity sensitive (starting at B key)Left hand: 72 velocity-sensitive buttonsBellows: Real pneumatic detection of bellows pressure (high-resolution pressure sensor), bellows resistance regulatorSound SourceMaximum polyphony: 128 voicesTones: 7 accordion sets (each including: 8 Treble registers, 3 Bass registers, 3 Orchestra Bass registers, 3 Orchestra Chord registers, 4 Orchestra sounds, 4 Organ sounds)Treble reed footages: 4Bass reed footages: 5Chord reed footages: 3PBM (Physical Behaviour Modelling)Noises: stopping-reed growl, closing valve noise, left button noiseIndividual reed simulation: hysteresis threshold, Expression curve, pressure-variant filter, pressure variant pitch deviationReed sound wave switching: by bellows acceleration, by note repetition speedMusette Tuning:Micro tuning presets: 15 (Dry, Classic, F-Folk, American L/H, North Europe, German L/H, D-Folk L/H, Alpine, Italian L/H, French, Scottish)EffectsReverb: 8 typesChorus: 8 typesRotary: Slow/Fast (for organ sounds)Panel Controls:Knob controls: Volume/powerRegisters: 4x Treble, Orchestra, Organ, Set, 3x Bass, Orchestra Bass, Orchestra ChordButtons: Orchestra/Organ, Orch Bass, Orch Chord, Left Register, Drums/Default, Song/Demo, User Prog/Dec, Metronome/Inc.Operation Mode:Bass 2Bs Rows, 3Bs Rows A-7th, 3Bs rows A-5dim, 3Bs Rows B-7th, 3Bs Rows B-5dim, 3Bs Rows BxTreble modes (Button-type): C-Griff Europe, C-Griff2, B-Griff Bajan, B-Griff Fin, D-Griff 1, D-Griff 2 -Octave: Down (-), 0, Up (+) (for Treble, Orchestra and Organ)Drums: 4 drum/percussion setsSong: 4 preset songs wit

Used Roland Fr-1 V-Accordion Piano Or Button Type White 886830230349 $1274.15 The revolutionary Roland V-Accordion FR-1 (piano style) or FR-1B (button type) is perfect for young beginners and music schools, yet its uncompromising sound quality makes it ideal for stage performers and keyboardists too. The ultra-light, smaller sized accordion has a long battery life (uses 8 x "AA" type 2000mAH Ni-MH batteries) to provide you with over 5 hours of performance per pack.Make Your FR-1/1B UniqueRoland V-Accordions come with 6 variations of inlay sheets that enable you to change the appearance of yours whenever you like. You can also create your own custom-designed inlay sheets using your printer and A4 sized paper or by using any kind of commercially designed paper.Play Anytime and AnywhereWith high-quality earphones included in the FR-1/FR-1B package the V-Accordion is extremely convenient for practicing at night and without disturbing your family or neighbors.Advanced Musical ExpressionWith the Roland FR-1/1B, you can simulate up to 7 different accordions. With the innovative 4 Organ presets (Harmonic Bar) and rotary effect, you can produce amazing organ sounds as well. You can even play your own beats, adding drums with the bass and chord buttons.Extremely lightweight and portableInstantly switch between classic accordions, tunings, and orchestral instrumentsBuilt-in reverb, chorus, rotary, and effectsIdeal for young students and stage performersKeyboard & BellowsRight hand: 26 keys, velocity sensitive (starting at B key)Left hand: 72 velocity-sensitive buttonsBellows: Real pneumatic detection of bellows pressure (high-resolution pressure sensor), bellows resistance regulatorSound SourceMaximum polyphony: 128 voicesTones: 7 accordion sets (each including: 8 Treble registers, 3 Bass registers, 3 Orchestra Bass registers, 3 Orchestra Chord registers, 4 Orchestra sounds, 4 Organ sounds)Treble reed footages: 4Bass reed footages: 5Chord reed footages: 3PBM (Physical Behaviour Modelling)Noises: stopping-reed growl, closing valve noise, left button noiseIndividual reed simulation: hysteresis threshold, Expression curve, pressure-variant filter, pressure variant pitch deviationReed sound wave switching: by bellows acceleration, by note repetition speedMusette Tuning:Micro tuning presets: 15 (Dry, Classic, F-Folk, American L/H, North Europe, German L/H, D-Folk L/H, Alpine, Italian L/H, French, Scottish)EffectsReverb: 8 typesChorus: 8 typesRotary: Slow/Fast (for organ sounds)Panel Controls:Knob controls: Volume/powerRegisters: 4x Treble, Orchestra, Organ, Set, 3x Bass, Orchestra Bass, Orchestra ChordButtons: Orchestra/Organ, Orch Bass, Orch Chord, Left Register, Drums/Default, Song/Demo, User Prog/Dec, Metronome/Inc.Operation Mode:Bass 2Bs Rows, 3Bs Rows A-7th, 3Bs rows A-5dim, 3Bs Rows B-7th, 3Bs Rows B-5dim, 3Bs Rows BxTreble modes (Button-type): C-Griff Europe, C-Griff2, B-Griff Bajan, B-Griff Fin, D-Griff 1, D-Griff 2 -Octave: Down (-), 0, Up (+) (for Treble, Orchestra and Organ)Drums: 4 drum/percussion setsSong: 4 preset songs wit