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Casio Keyboard and Piano Buyer's Guide
Since 1980, Casio has been making musical instruments that inspire musicians around the world. No matter whether you're taking your first steps, adding a musical centerpiece to your home or studio, or going out on tour, there's a Casio that's just right for you.
Because there's an instrument for everyone, it can be challenging to find the perfect match for your needs. This guide will point you right to the best digital pianos and portable keyboards for every occasion, so you can get your hands on the keys that unlock your creativity.
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Which is the Best Digital Piano for Me?
What is a Digital Piano?
Digital pianos can take many forms. A digital piano can be a beautiful furniture-style addition to your home, a portable stage instrument, a MIDI controller in your studio, a sound design partner, the list goes on. At its most fundamental level, a digital piano is an instrument with 88 weighted keys which can accurately replicate the sound and feel of playing a traditional grand piano. The best digital pianos go even further with features like keys with wood construction, sympathetic string resonance, elegant cabinetry, customizable effects, and other benefits that help draw you even deeper into your music.
Why Would I Want a Digital vs Acoustic Piano?
For many players, cost and space are the biggest factors. Digital pianos often find a home where a traditional acoustic piano is either impractical or financially out of reach. That said, there are many practical advantages to a digital vs acoustic piano that might make your decision even easier. For example, digital pianos require no tuning or maintenance, they offer multiple sounds and recording features, and they have headphone outputs for quiet playing. We need to stop this list here, or we’ll be listing conveniences for days.
The Best Digital Piano for Beginners
If you’re taking piano lessons, your teacher will eventually recommend weighted keys to build proper technique. You should know that piano students and studio musicians are often looking for the same combination of features: An 88 key digital piano with great-feeling weighted hammer-action keys with excellent piano sound and compact size. The same instrument can be both a digital piano for beginners and a master keyboard for a studio. Wherever you fall on the beginner-to-pro spectrum, even Casio’s most affordable digital pianos go far beyond your expectations with features like recording, seamless USB-MIDI connectivity, and app integration. Most importantly, Casio’s award-winning key designs and sound quality will inspire you and spark creativity for years to come.
Learn about choosing the perfect beginner keyboard or digital piano.
Beyond Piano
All of Casio’s digital pianos feature a variety of sounds in addition to a grand piano, but several of them go above and beyond with features like huge Tone collections, accompaniment Rhythms, customizable DSP effects, multitrack recorders, and more. If you’re a songwriter, producer or solo performer, you’ll love the versatility that these instruments deliver.
Take the Stage
When you’re performing, you need a no-compromise instrument that will be both inspiring and reliable for years to come. Casio’s stageworthy digital pianos give you the sound, feel, connectivity and innovation that will make your performance shine.
Traditional Elegance
When a grand piano is either too big or too costly for your space, Casio’s Celviano console-style digital pianos are a perfect fit. They offer the visual, aural and tactile experience of playing a concert grand piano in a fraction of the space and at a fraction of the cost. If you’re looking for a truly perfect piano experience, you’ll fall in love with the Grand Hybrid GP-310 and GP-510. Instead of replicating a true grand piano action, a Grand Hybrid simply includes it.
Modern Style
Just because a digital piano can be small in size shouldn’t mean it has to be a boring gray slab. With Casio’s meticulous and forward-thinking design, even the world’s slimmest digital pianos will add style, beauty, and a creative vibe to any room. If you want a space-saving piano that looks as stunning as it sounds and feels, you want a Privia.
Which Portable Keyboard Do I Need?
Whether you’re picking out a portable keyboard for yourself or as a gift, for playing at home or performing live, just starting out or a seasoned pro, there’s a Casio keyboard that’s perfect for you. All Casio portable keyboard models have built-in speakers, optional battery power, and loads of sounds and capabilities to explore.
Great Gifts Come in Small Packages
There’s no better holiday or birthday gift for a creative kid (or adult) than a Casio keyboard. The super-affordable SA-series have mini keys that are perfect for small hands, and they’re ideal for kids of any age, including a few notable late-night talk show hosts.
Keyboards for Beginners
A huge part of Casio’s mission is to enable anyone to enjoy making music, regardless of their age, skill level, or budget. Ask any keyboardist who grew up in the 80s, and they’ll probably tell you they started with a Casio keyboard (and it probably still works). True to this history, many of Casio’s portable keyboards are great, affordable choices for beginners. Some even have lesson systems with illuminated keys to light the way forward as you learn your favorite songs.
Learn about choosing the perfect beginner keyboard or digital piano.
Keyboards for Stage & Studio Pros
After over 40 years, the family of Casiotone portable keyboards has gone pro. Casio’s compact, lightweight, fully-featured instruments have found homes on stages and in studios for live performers and producers. These keyboards feature incredible sound quality, advanced connectivity, customizable DSP effects and many other innovative features you’d normally find (or wouldn’t find) in keyboards costing much more.
One-Man Band Keyboards
If you’re a solo performer and you need to sound like you have a backup band, you’ll want the flexibility of a Casio portable arranger. The CT-X3000 and the CT-X5000 keyboards feature a huge variety of customizable full-accompaniment Rhythms based on music from around the world, and powerful built-in speakers that can easily fill a room. They also have dedicated buttons for quick access to essential functions like transposition, octave switching, and more.
Couch Keyboards
If you’ve got a studio full of synths, sometimes you just want something on hand you can grab and quickly work out an idea without booting up a whole room or compromising on sound quality. These keyboards deliver the incredible sound of Casio’s AiX Sound Source in lightweight, easy-to-use designs that go anywhere, and are always on hand to help bring your idea to life.
Which keyboard makes the best gift?
A keyboard is a very thoughtful gift that inspires creativity, joy, well-being, and growth. Nothing makes us smile more than hearing about people who grew up with Casio passing the torch to their kids, nieces and nephews, grandkids, or anyone else. You don’t have to limit your gift list to kids and beginners… A Casio keyboard can be the perfect gift for anyone!
Keyboards for Children
For decades, Casio keyboards have been the perfect first start. These SA-series keyboards are designed to jump-start any child’s musical creativity. They have hundreds of fun sounds and rhythms to explore using either the built-in speakers or headphones, they’re rugged and dependable, and can go anywhere with AA batteries.
Keyboards for Pianists
Every pianist needs an 88 key digital piano with weighted keys. Even the most demanding players can always make use of a portable instrument, and Casio’s CDP-S and Privia PX-S digital pianos are ideal gifts for a player who needs a go-anywhere solution without compromising authentic sound and feel.
Keyboards for Students
Dorm rooms are tight on space, and rehearsal rooms can get booked up very quickly. Fortunately, Casio’s CDP-S and Privia PX-S models are the slimmest digital pianos in the world, and are perfect for small rooms. The combination of piano sound and feel, ultra-compact size, and affordability make these digital pianos perfect for students.
Keyboards for Professionals
It can be tough finding an insightful and unique gift for a pro keyboard player, but Casio has a solution: The Casiotone CT-S1. It’s the ultimate “couch keyboard”. It’s a 61-key keyboard that weighs under 10 pounds, runs on AA batteries, and has 61 amazingly-detailed sounds in a simple and beautiful case. It also comes in three colors, has optional Bluetooth connectivity, and has strap pins so you can play it without a stand or table.
There's also a 76-key version for players who need the ultimate compact piano. It has more keys, a more powerful speaker system, remote control via the Casio Music Space app, and can go wherever the music takes you.