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Here are my suggestions for people who ask ‘What is the best piano for grade 2?’
Following on from my blog about grade 1, if you or your child has been progressing well and you’re looking at a piano to take you to the next level of your playing journey, hopefully, this blog will help.
The Yamaha P125 is one of our most popular models here at ePianos & rightfully so.
It’s a portable piano with 88 weighted keys, so it feels just like you’re playing a real piano all while you can still stick it under your arm to move around should you need to!
It uses Yamaha’s ‘Pure CF’ sound engine which means the piano sound built-in is such a high quality & with 24 voices built in (ranging from a few pianos to strings & organs), it can keep players entertained & engaged for hours on end.
When you’re considering ‘What is the best piano for grade 2?’, you’re likely wanting to slowly but surely increase the quality of your instrument… you must ensure you’re playing on something that feels like a real piano, and you must make sure that what you’re practicing on has a good enough sound to keep you and your ears engaged and inspired.
For me, the Yamaha P125 ticks all the boxes without you having to spend thousands.
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Watch our review of the Yamaha P-125 portable piano
As a grade 2 level player, it may be the time (if space allows it) to start thinking about investing in something a little more permanent than just a portable keyboard.
Gone are the times spent cringing at your out-of-tune, ‘honky tonk’ piano, worrying about having to pay another £80 to get it tuned every few months.
With digital pianos, all of this goes away, and you’re left with a permanently brilliant sounding instrument, that you simply plug in and play.
The YDP-144 is the first model in Yamaha’s ‘Arius’ range of digital pianos and is perfect for anybody going into or currently working at a grade 2 level.
It’s a budget option but nonetheless brilliant for early-stage players, and offers a really high-quality playing experience.
Although the YDP144 uses the same key mechanism as the P125 I previously mentioned, the sound engine is Yamaha’s latest and greatest, emulating a real £100,000 Yamaha CFX Grand piano.
If you closed your eyes, you’d think you were sitting at a real grand piano it’s that good!
What I like about the YDP144, is it ‘feels’ like you’re playing on something a bit more substantial, and as a learner at grade 2 level, the idea of sitting and practicing isn’t always the most appealing.
It’s hard to keep motivated when the practice is getting trickier and trickier, and you’re focusing on technique and scales, rather than playing what you know best… and so having something like a YDP144 (or more excitingly, the YDP165 I’m going to tell you more about shortly) the more inspired I think you’ll feel as a player and this, above anything, is the most important thing.
This brings me to the last suggestion, but certainly the most exciting (in my opinion) for people who ask ‘What is the best piano for grade 2?’
The Yamaha YDP165 offers a grade 2 player the perfect learning tool and could, if you wished, last you throughout grades 3 and 4 or even 5 at a push!
It has fully weighted synthetic ivory and ebony keytops, which means it feels exactly like a real grand piano would. Both the texture and weight are very important as you develop as a player.
So much of playing the Piano is about muscle memory and learning how to control the light & shade of each note… with the GH3 key mechanism, you’re giving yourself the best possible chance of being able to really hone your technique when practicing.
Both the YDP165 and YDP144 keep things simple and have just 10 voices to pick from, removing any chances of distraction (which can happen when the instrument you’re playing on has various bells & whistles).
If you’ve been wondering ‘What is the best piano for grade 2?’ then I hope this information has been helpful to you!
As always, if you need to ask us anything just give us a call on 01295 266 788 or send us an email on sales@epianos.co.uk
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Comments:
Hi! I just wonder how to connect my android pad to the piano p-125?
Try taking a look here to see if this helps. https://download.yamaha.com/files/tcm:39-1179159