Choosing the Perfect Piano Keyboard for Your Child
By Dan Maynard
Learning to play a musical instrument makes an enormous contribution to your child's development.
Research by the American Music Conference would suggest that learning the piano can actually improve your child's test scores at school as piano students are better equipped than their peers to comprehend mathematical and scientific concepts.
Having their own piano is a real motivator for a child to learn to play and to keep up their practise. Owning a quality instrument is part of the enjoyment of making music, but make sure that your child has a degree of enthusiasm to learn if you are buying a piano solely for their benefit.
The AMC recommends getting advice from someone impartial, who really understands a child's musical development, such as their school music teacher, before you buy them their first piano. The following advice can also give you a few things to think about before you make that major investment.
A digital piano that has the functionality to record music and download music files is a great choice for children. What better present for their grandparents than being able to e-mail them the child's first piece of music?
A really useful function for your digital piano to have when your child is learning is a variety of pre-recorded songs. Your child can play along with these and can often mute either the left or right hand parts and play these themselves.
Music teachers agree this is a good way to learn to play, whilst maintaining the child's interest. Your child initially will not need a full 88 piano keys piano, or a large number of notes of polyphony. However, as they become more advanced and learn more complex pieces these will be necessary, so it may be worth making that extra investment for the long term.
Yamaha manufacture a wide range of digital pianos, and some of these are recommended for beginners, such as the YDP213 and YDP323. These models have a realistic acoustic sound and feel, making them ideal for children learning to play.
Incorporating Yamaha's Graded Hammer Effect keyboard, which simulates the weighting of an acoustic piano keyboard, these models have three pedals and one track recording capabilities. They have variable touch sensitivity so the sound is altered depending on the style of playing.
Research by the American Music Conference would suggest that learning the piano can actually improve your child's test scores at school as piano students are better equipped than their peers to comprehend mathematical and scientific concepts.
Having their own piano is a real motivator for a child to learn to play and to keep up their practise. Owning a quality instrument is part of the enjoyment of making music, but make sure that your child has a degree of enthusiasm to learn if you are buying a piano solely for their benefit.
The AMC recommends getting advice from someone impartial, who really understands a child's musical development, such as their school music teacher, before you buy them their first piano. The following advice can also give you a few things to think about before you make that major investment.
A digital piano that has the functionality to record music and download music files is a great choice for children. What better present for their grandparents than being able to e-mail them the child's first piece of music?
A really useful function for your digital piano to have when your child is learning is a variety of pre-recorded songs. Your child can play along with these and can often mute either the left or right hand parts and play these themselves.
Music teachers agree this is a good way to learn to play, whilst maintaining the child's interest. Your child initially will not need a full 88 piano keys piano, or a large number of notes of polyphony. However, as they become more advanced and learn more complex pieces these will be necessary, so it may be worth making that extra investment for the long term.
Yamaha manufacture a wide range of digital pianos, and some of these are recommended for beginners, such as the YDP213 and YDP323. These models have a realistic acoustic sound and feel, making them ideal for children learning to play.
Incorporating Yamaha's Graded Hammer Effect keyboard, which simulates the weighting of an acoustic piano keyboard, these models have three pedals and one track recording capabilities. They have variable touch sensitivity so the sound is altered depending on the style of playing.
See also: Yamaha Keyboards, piano keyboard
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