Digital Piano

A digital piano is a modern electronic musical instrument, different from the electronic keyboard, designed to serve primarily as an alternative to a traditional piano, both in the way it feels to play and in the sound produced. It is meant to provide an accurate simulation of a real piano. Some digital pianos are also designed to look like an acoustic piano. While digital pianos may fall short of a real piano in feel and sound, they nevertheless have many advantages over normal pianos:

• Compared to acoustic pianos, digital pianos are generally less expensive.
• Most models are smaller and considerably lighter, but there are large ones as well.
• They have no strings and thus do not require tuning. They also easily accommodate different temperaments on demand.
• Depending on the individual features of each digital piano, they may include many more instrument sounds including strings, guitars, organs, and more.
• They are much more likely to incorporate a MIDI implementation.
• They may have more features to assist in learning and composition.
• They usually include headphone output.
• They often have a transposition feature.
• They do not require the use of microphones, eliminating the problem of audio feedback in sound reinforcement, as well as simplifying the recording process.