Yamaha P-145 Digital Piano with 88 Graded Hammer Compact Keys and 10 Instrumental Voices, Lightweight and Portable, Black

This is an incredible digital piano. I've had it for 18 months so far and it's one of the best things I've ever bought. This is a great piano for someone looking to take piano playing seriously, with the benefit of not needing to get a grand piano. It's pretty heavy, so you will need to purchase a solid stand to go with it, but it's portable enough that you could transport it to use for performances if you wanted to.Playability is excellent. It's a bit different feel from playing a grand piano, but the weighting of the keys here makes for a vastly superior experience to a non-weighted keyboard, as the weight means you can play dynamically with volume which is essential for learning good technique and for playing pieces the way they were meant to be. The weighting feels great here with different weighs from the lower to higher octaves. There's a lot of range to be found here.Sound here is also fantastic. From the grand sounds of the bass notes to the dainty trebles, Yamaha deliver a top of the line quality. Volume is very adjustable and you can plug in headphones with a 6.25mm jack for the convenience of private playing. This does come with a small pedal for sustaining. It's decent as a basic but you may prefer to upgrade to a more substantial one as the default does move around a bit. You can also plug the piano into an audio interface with the right jack if you want to record yourself.There are options for changing the default sound to a few basic synthesised options like electric piano sound etc. These are fine but I don't use them personally. They're a nice option to have if you're into that sort of thing, but they aren't a big selling point.This is a fantastic piano. The sound is great and playability is top of the line. You get the full range of a piano with a degree of portability. For the quality you get here, the cost is well worth it if you're looking to take learning/playing the piano seriously and need something you can set up anywhere.Highly recommended.

Usual Yamaha quality. Nice voices. Grand piano and strings are my favourite!Nice upgrade from my Yamaha np-12. A smart instrument and great value.Light and portable? 11.5 kg, may be compared to others?

Just what I needed. I'm somebody who has played in bands on other instruments, but just wanted to develop some keyboard skills. I'm finding it really useful to understand the Western music scheme more than I did. It plays well and the sound is fine. Not many other sounds, apart from piano, but I doubt I'd every use them anyway. Very good for learning and developing.

Good quality, safe delivery, nothing to worry about with this purchase! Used to play baby grand and real grand (white) in a hall and manor house, this is pretty much (for the price) the best you will get for sound. Stick to the first piano sound not the second

As a beginner/intermediate pianist, I did a tonne of research into various different electric piano models based on their key weighting, number of keys, sound quality, value for money etc. and this one just came up as the all round favourite. It has the full set of 88 keys, graded weighted hammer keys and includes a sustain pedal which I use constantly to get a closer acoustic feel (I definitely think having a sustain pedal is important, and many of the other models I looked at didn't come with one). If you're wanting to connect headphones to it, the port in the piano is a 6.35mm jack so I needed to get a headphone adapter for my standard 3.5mm jack headphones. But it's not expensive to buy, just something to bear in mind.The weighted hammer keys are a dream, playing lower notes harder and higher notes softer as it would on an acoustic piano. You can play around with different sensitivities in the settings if you want to change this though.I'm sure to the highly skilled pianists of the Amazon reviewing world there's probably various things you can pick out that needs improving - for example you can hear when the keys press down against the foam on the inside of the piano, but this is the case for even an acoustic piano, so I don't see it as a big issue.I've had mine for a few months now and I play it pretty much everyday, it's just so much fun and great value for money. So just buy it already!