YAMAHA61-Key Touch-Sensitive Advanced Portable Keyboard with Power Adapter, (PSRE473)

No keyboard is perfect, but this one is VERY close.If I had to find something to be critical of, it might be the look and feel of the surface of the keys. Very, uh, plastic. But, hey, that's what they are, right?Other than that, this thing has the goods for pro performance and recordings, in my opinion.Really? With just 61 keys? Yes. Really. The conveniently placed octave shift buttons are a game changer. Unless you play modern classical or are doing a lot of keyboard splitting, 61 keys is actually enough now with that feature.Are some of the 820 sounds cheesy? Sure. But occasionally that's what is needed. And the easy, quick buttons and knobs for adding chorus, reverb, and up to two DSP effects at a time mean that even the cheesier sounds can instantly be turned into very useful ones on the fly.Maybe one day there will be a better do-all keyboard in this price range. But that day is not today. (June 2022.)

Never played the piano until now. I wanted to learn, but didnt want to spend over a grand, in case I didnt stick with it. I started with a $149 Akai Mk3 Mini Play, returned it for a Casio CT X700, but that keyboard sounded cheap to my ear and was lacking a lot of functions. I returned the Casio, and I am very satisfied with the upgrade to the Yamaha 473. It sounds so much richer than the Casio, and has more sounds, features, effects. I love the Groove Creator. I can isolate tracks in the included demo songs and backup music. I can record samples with the microphone. I can apply 2 DSP effects at once. This thing is AMAZING! Nothing else comes close at this price point. Its important to mention that the Yahama 473 doesn't have any piano lessons built into the keyboard, however, you can connect a tablet to the USB MIDI port, download Yamaha's Flowkey piano training app, and get 3 free months when you register your new keyboard. I've made it through the first few lessons. Good stuff so far. I'm excited to stick with it!

When in doubt, buy the Yamaha product. I'm retired and have lived by that all my life. This 61 key Yamaha is outstanding. It has all the features you could imagine and works perfectly with piano marvel - and I mean perfectly. Most of all you can change an octave instantly which enables play of essentially all 88 keys. Now that is amazing!!! Yes it's that good. Great job Yamaha engineers on this one. Thank you.

Best arranger for the price hands down. Filters are great and sampler is awesome!

Good keyboard! Just don't buy it from this store as you may have a lot of trouble with the seller.

This is a great one. I bought the 61 key because I thought I needed the room but now I wish I had bought the 76 key. Anyway. This is a good keyboard for the money. You can do so much with it. I have an MODX 7 + that cost 3 times this. If you are shopping I recommend this one over the MODX. You can still connect external speakers of you need to or an amp. You can connect a mic.

I LOVE IT!!! This is the third yamaha keyboard I have owned.

My family loves this keyboard. It has a great sound! We all love to get together and sing like we did growing up.Does not take up a lot of space. Nice product