Top 10 Digital Pianos

• Health benefits: Music education at a very early age allows a child’s brain to develop by improving communication, verbal and visual skills.
• Keeps your brain healthy: Playing or listening to music keeps your brain healthy and alert. Your responses to the real world rime increases. Playing music can exercise your brain and can boost and sharpen your memory power.
• Makes you happy: The power of music is vast, and if you are depressed and going through something that has been irritating you for long, music is the best answer to it. It can easily change your mood. Listening to music releases a chemical called dopamine, which is known as a feel-good chemical.
• Blood pressure and pulse rate: A number of studies have proved that music strengthens your heart and is a very good source of healing for people suffering from cardiac diseases. It also releases a chemical called endorphin inside your brain, which is very good for your heart.
• Music reduces your pain and boosts your immune system: Level of cortisol, which is responsible for causing heart diseases and risks, is increasing. It lowers your bone density an also cause the weakening of your immune system. Uplifting music has always helped in increasing your immune system and reduces any kind of pain you are suffering from.

There are a lot of instruments used in music, and all of them have their features, uses, and uniqueness. None of them can be compared to any other based on its level of importance or standards in music.

Pianos have been considered a little easier to use and play as compared to other musical instruments. Here are some advantages of learning it.

• Split concentration: While playing the piano, you need to take care of a lot of things, you need to use both hands, listen to the music, read the notes, match your scales and sometimes even use a pedal. There is a lot more to do together, and the amount of concentration that you need while playing the piano is very high. This allows you to multi-task easily and benefits you in the outside world as well.
• It is easy to play: Unlike other instruments, playing the piano does not need much physical effort. While playing any percussion instruments, you need to hit them using your hands, and while using woodwind instruments, the facial muscles and lips need to work properly. While playing the guitar for the first time, you need to build calluses on your fingers. So considering all these things, playing the piano is far easier than playing the other instruments.
• Neuroplasticity: Playing the piano develops your brain in a positive way and stimulates it as no other activity does. While playing it, you are developing your memory, test, math, and concentration skills together.
• Improved test scores/School performance: For children who are still studying in their school, playing the piano helps develop your brain, and it will increase their  school performance as well.
• Improves your health: Playing the piano allows you to develop your hand-eye coordination, and it also benefits your hand and arm muscles by making them strong.

The main difference between a digital and an acoustic piano is how the sound is created. In traditional acoustic pianos, the sound is produced by channeling the fingers. As soon as your fingers strike the keys, it presses into the hammer, which in turn strikes the strings.

The vibration produced by the striking of the string produces the sound. When these vibrations produced by the string combined with the resonance of those that were not struck, produce unique sounds.

Tuning is a process that lets you know if the strings are very loosened or tight. If any of these gets disturbed, the quality of the sound produced would be very low, and it would not create a soothing effect on you.

Digital pianos do not require to be tuned as they are electrically operated, the acoustic pianos need to be properly tuned before use. In terms of the price in which they are available, the digital pianos are much cheaper than those of the Acoustic ones.

Whenever you wish to buy a piano, you need to know well about the pros and cons of buying it and what are the other options which are available in the market other than that.

Let us look at the advantages that the digital piano offers.

• You can use a headphone along with it so that only you can hear its sound, and your family members are not disturbed.
• You can record the sound which you play so that you can hear it later.
• The volume of the playing can be adjusted easily with buttons.
• In terms of repairing and maintenance, your piano will save you a lot.
• Digital piano takes less space as compared to an acoustic piano.
• They are inexpensive than the acoustic piano.

You may not be familiar with all the abbreviation which are used in keyboard manuals.

Understanding all these common terms would help you make the most of the digital piano.

• Action: It is used when describing the feel or touch of a keyboard.
• ADSR: It generally stands for attack, decay, sustains, and release.
• Aftertouch: It is that point while pressing the keys that it sounds like a rubber strip that reads extra pressure.
• Assignable controller: It is a device that specifies all the parameters that it controls under it.
• Attack: When you play the instrument, the beginning part of the sound is called an attack.
• Auto-accompaniment: Often made up of a number of instruments, from simple note or chord input and which plays in the background.
• Controller: Your piano can be used to send MIDI messages to vary the sound.
• C/V: Control Voltage, an electrical source used in analog synthesis to vary a parameter.
• Cutoff: It is that point of the filter that does either of the two things, it either passes or blocks an audio signal.
• Damper pedal: It is also called a sustain pedal, and it is that pedal which when pressed, continues to play the same note until it is released
• DSP: Its full form is Digital signal processing.
• Effects: Signal that modifies a sound, such as reverb, chorus, delay, distortion.
• Envelope: It changes dynamically and can be considered as the parameter used while pressing a note such as frequency, amplitude, or pitch.
• Filter: Altering tone or timbre of a sound by removing or emphasizing specific frequencies.
• Fine Tuning: Change the pitch of a sound by small amounts. Usually represented in cents or hertz. It is used instead of not transposing when slightly the tune is out of pitch.
• Glide: The sliding of pitch between notes, and it is also called Portamento.
• Graded action: It is basically designed to mimic the real grand piano. The lower note tends to feel heavier, and it tends to get lighter as you go to the higher notes.
• Half pedaling: The ability to press a sustain pedal with graduated or varying depth and response.
• Jack: A female connector or input receptacle. It comes in various sizes and standards according to the instrument.
• Keybed: It is used to describe the keys of the keyboard and the mechanism lying under it.
• Layer: It is very important that you master your piano and it can only happen if you can play different notes at the same time. This ability is called a layer.
• MIDI: It is important that there is a real-world connection between the musical instrument and the outside world. You need to transfer and import files to play in your piano. This can be done through MIDI which is also called Musical Instrument Digital Interface.
• Modulation: It is called your ability to transform any parameter such as pitch, frequency, and tempo.
• Oscillator: A  sound source, which produces or plays back waveforms.
• Pan: A sound’s position from the left or right in the stereo field and it is often called the balance control.
• Pitch bend wheel: With the help of this, you can manually change the pitch by just bending the wheel up or down.
• Preset: A sound that is stored at a particular memory location.
• Quantize: Fix rhythmic inaccuracies in your performance.
• Random-access memory:  memory location that can be replaced multiple times.
• Rhythms: Drumbeats and grooves are built in the keyboard in many musical styles, which adds beauty to your playing.
• Sample rate: When the audio is converted from analog to digital, the number of times that it is measured per second is called the sample rate.
• Sampler: Edits, alters, and playbacks the audio that is being recorded.
• Standard MIDI File: A file that can be shared by using its extension (.mid)
• Sustain: The level at which the value remains until you let go of the key.
• Tempo: The speed of the beat at which is being performed.
• Transpose: To shift the keyboard’s pitch up or down.
• Tuning: To change the pitch of the keyboard.
• Universal Serial Bus (USB): A connection method to connect to the outside world, also called pen-drive
• Zone: A set of keys on a keyboard when it’s divided up into multiple regions for the split and layered setups.