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I was very pleased with my purchase, I did receive a stand and the adapter with my keyboard. I found the instructional CD helpful. I am just a beginner, wanting to learn how to play the piano. I learned how to play two songs my first day. I would highly recomend this product!!
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I think the piano keyboard will be fine - it will be fun to try to learn to play. However, the description says a stand is included but there was no stand, never mind whether it fit or not. And then navigating the Amazon.com site is fine until you want to contact somebody about a missing part. The packing slip with the order states "This shipment completes your order" so I guess there's no point in watching tomorrows mail. How do I contact Amazon.com?
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I was looking at the Clavinova 409 but it was $10,000+ and the Tyros II and other arrangers seemed too cluttered; Thus, I was happy to find the YPT 400 because it had the Clavinova's easy to use interface and included the styles, voices & song features for about $200. The YPT 400 is also light enough to be carried around in a shoulder bag.
Thus far, I'm playing ryhthm patterns on it and I create them with Overture 4 ([...]) and then download them into my YPT 400; The good news is: I can now count ryhthms subconciously!
Hence, I must say that the onboard metronome is great and it takes little effort to change its tempo and time signature and I use it a lot since I like setting the time signature to 8/4 (for example) when I practice the 8 note patterns in Hanon's exercise book.
The main reason why I got my YPT 400 was to update my S90ES at a very reasonable price and I'll be learning what having a fully featured Clavinova 409 might mean to me.
The only things I would change are: (1) there is no MIDI out port so I'd add a MIDI port; the MIDI driver (for PC) only supports one channel so I'd add support for multiple channels.
But those two things are unimportant in the overall picture since, most importantly, the YPT 400 is an easy to use instrument that has relatively full featured capabilities.
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Not long ago, my venerable Yamaha synthesizer was finally wearing out after many years of faithful service. I needed to find a portable keyboard of the same octave range that had a lot of features for not too much money -- and that had a piano touch rather than an organ touch (like my old keyboard did).
Leave it to Yamaha to live up to its reputation. This keyboard is simply incredible for the retail price (let alone as reduced at the time of sale). It has more bells and whistles (rhythms, instruments, and much more) than I will ever likely use. It can be used profitably by a whole range of musicians, from the beginner to the professional -- and Yamaha's online support (including MIDI tracks, tutorials and much more) is simply top-notch. Do be sure to get a piano pedal with this, though -- you'll need it for sustain effects (whereas my old keyboard simply had a button for those).
I was surprised to get a large folding stand along with the keyboard, as the stand is not described as being part of the package. It's probably a good thing, as this keyboard is sustantially heavier and wider than my old keyboard.
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The keyboard is just what I wanted. The stand is a dud. It came minus a necessary screw and has a wrong-sized foot bar so is unusable. This is a big inconvenience. I would recommend the keyboard but forget the use of the stand!
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