New Yamaha P-125 Digital Piano Keyboard Review 🎹
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I own this Yamaha P125 for transcribing music at KB Saxophone Lessons.
It has a weighted action, which is primarily why I chose this digital piano.
It's just a tool that I use to transcribe and arrange sheet music, rather than an outlet for self expression.
Typically, I like to use the "Electric Piano" voice, just because it's a little bit easier on the ears. As a piano tuner, I don't pick out the imperfections in the sampling of the acoustic piano voices.
What I mean by that, is that when I play piano as a piano technician/tuner I can hear every little detail. Yamaha makes the piano sound natural and sometimes that means that there's an octave that might be tuned differently than what I prefer. Essentially, I can hear that there's a different piano tuner with a different tuning footprint with each "voice" that comes with the P-125.
So, what I typically recommend is to get a piano with a greater number of samples.
As for this piano in my living room, I never use the "organ" voice, "harpsichord voice," or "acoustic piano" voice, I only use the "electric piano" voice.
Like I said, I mainly use this piano as a tool to help me in my arrangements and transcriptions because I'm an artist at MusicNotes.com and also SheetMusicPlus.com.
Yamaha Digital Pianos
Yamaha provides plenty of other digital keyboards with a multitude of different piano voices that are available on the market.
Now, there are more advanced keyboards that have acoustic parts. However, the P-125 is not one of them. The P-125 has a simple weighted action instead.
Yamaha P-125 Digital Keyboard
Having said that, I can play plenty quickly with this keyboard. It's not the fastest keyboard, but it does what I need for my own purposes.
It's not as fast as a grand piano or a very high end upright piano. But, it just serves as a tool for what I need for my arrangement and transcription purposes.
Now, for a bare minimum keyboard with bare minimum features, this is the keyboard for me. Simply because I'm not using it as a tool of expression, I'm using it so that I can better transcribe and arrange sheet music pieces for KB Saxophone Lessons.
Yamaha Acoustic Pianos
Yamaha acoustic pianos have far better actions than weighted keyboards like my P-125. Whether it's a grand piano or upright piano, they're able to perform at a superior level compared to my digital keyboard.
If you play complicated pieces, it might be impossible or extremely difficult to achieve what you need as a technical piano player. Especially for complicated, intermediate, or intermediate-advanced pieces.
Pedal Functions on a Yamaha P-125
The 3 pedals work as I expect them to:
Right Pedal - A sustain pedal
Center Pedal - A sostenuto pedal
Left Pedal - A soft pedal
So, that's my digital piano from Yamaha. It's a P-125 weighted action with 88 keys.
I hope you've enjoyed this review of this piano I've owned for a little over 7 years now.
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