Comments on: Yamaha Electronic 61Touch Keyboard PSR275 Free Ship

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:39:07 +0000

“boo” a big thumbs way down
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
Mine broke after the fourth time i used it! The sound was too quiet also! When i tried to play with my buddies in my basement their sound blew mine away they told me to start playing and i was playing! They told me to get a new one or i was out of the group! And they “were” my best friends! I spent all the money i had on it! Please don’t don’t give these filth mongers the pleasure of getting your money and use it to buy a new toilet the money is better spent down the toilet than on that keyboard!

By: Brenna M. Craven

Brenna M. Craven — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:07:36 +0000

A Godsend for learning keybaord
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
This keyboard I recieved as a gift a few years back and I loved it! I learned to play a lot of music on it! The fact that the piano can teach you songs is a big bonus!!!

By: Gilligan

Gilligan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:05:33 +0000

The biggest dissapointment since andretti racing for ps1
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
I bought this keyboard, fully intending to have a good time with it and there it was not working! I bought it new and during shipping it must have broken! I lost $179.99 of my hard earned money; Its overpriced, overated, and mine didn’t work! I don’t know if those people who shipped it were just mocking me or I got the bad end of a bad deal, maybe it is just a piece of junk or am I the victim of a prank? I don’t know how it works because as I said mine didn’t work! I don’t know if you would still want it but I wouldn’t take that risk again.

By: Joel

Joel — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:13:34 +0000

Nice sound and features
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
"pros like me" would know that a full piano is 88 keys, not 81. Generally keyboards come in 61, 76 or 88 keys. 61 is more than ample for a beginner keyboard in this pricerange.

the sounds are nice, but not fantastic. for the price range they blow away the similar casios, especially for piano.

if you are looking for an entry level keyboard this is your best bet.

By: J. DEATS

J. DEATS — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:33:49 +0000

Excellent choice for an starter keyboard or...
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
I received this keyboard as a gift, on top of just sounding better than the Casio models in this price range, the tone generator features 32-note polyphony (up to 32 tones can be sounded at once by the tone generator), casios comparitive model can do around 24.

The PSR275 lives up to being a solid keyboard for someone just learning to play by providing the capability of turning any song in it's memory into a lesson (the song slows down and the keyboard waits for you to play along), it has a good set of 100 songs to playback/listen to. A good number of drum styles and auto acompanyment. Standard MIDI IN/OUT for sequencing using a PC , etc...

The only negative here is that you don't get on board sequencer (you can't record anything) also the keyboard has no internal memory for adding additional songs. This was a big negative for me and why I ultimately returned the PSR275 for the PSR295. If you want all the features of the PSR275 with the additional benefit of being able to do multi channel/track sequencing of songs (recording) and the ability to download MIDIs into the keyboard, the PSR295 is your best bet. PSR295 currently retails for about $50.00 more, but I have actually seen it for less than the PSR275 (supply and demand I suppose).

The PSR295 comes with fewer songs in memory out of the box, but it comes with a CD-ROM full of songs a USB port (can easily connect to a laptop or desktop PC) and a USB MIDI driver (which works great with Cakewalk Sonar, Cubase, etc...) and software to boot. For that reason I give the PSR275 *** and the PSR295 *****

By: Charles Boyle

Charles Boyle — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:14:36 +0000

Incredible (blows everything away)
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
aright i got this piano as a gift about 4 years ago and have loved it. It sounds amazing hooked up to my bass amp and i love how many different things i can get going at once. i can be playing and it will add th guitar, drums, and bass in my key and what chord im playing.

I do record with it using the line out plug and i am fairly good at the piano and this is not only very proffesional feeling but very fun. it feels great and you can choose if you want touch sensitive keys or not. there is a button for turning on harmony which sounds incredibly cool with any song.
if only this were full size that would be really sweet.

I have tried many other keyboards and the sound quality, feel, and simplicity of this blows them all away. there is so many options for making what your doing just right.

Buy it, it terrific.

By: Paul Wake

Paul Wake — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:23:25 +0000

Fun, decent keyboard, although you should move up
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
We received this as a gift, and it’s a fun supplement to our piano. I’m actually learning a lot about music, despite having already played piano for years, just by playing along with some of the styles and trying to improvise in various keys and through various chord progressions. This keyboard doesn’t have the ability to save what you play and let you lay tracks over each other, and I’d advise people to spend more and get a keyboard with that feature (this is a bottom end keyboard, and you really should move up slightly). One quite annoying problem is that the MIDI function (which many people admittedly won’t use) was difficult to get functioning properly. When I hooked the keyboard up to the computer using a Midisport UNO MIDI-USB adaptor, notes only went through sporadically. Every several seconds a note showed up, and several seconds later, a few measures along, another note showed up. I have heard that the UNO adaptor doesn’t work with all Yamaha keyboards; I hooked a Yamaha Clavinova up and it worked fine, which made me think this PSR-275 keyboard is probably the problem. But then I switched to Yamaha’s own interface, and it worked with the PSR (although the software didn’t like to stay installed). I’d be wary of this keyboard if you want to use it as a MIDI controller.

By: Serge Gracovetsky

Serge Gracovetsky — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:28:29 +0000

Good for a beginner piano
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I bought it for my 4 years old grand daughter who is learning to play piano.

Very good machine. The only problem is that MIDI computer communication is NOT USB. It is done using the old clumsy 5 pins jacks who are no longer in use in modern computers. That piano is probably the end of the its line and will be discontinued soon and this is why the price was good. I am very happy with my purchase for the intended objective.

By: cjs52738

cjs52738 — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:53:35 +0000

Yamaha PSR275-AD 61-Key Portable Electronic Keyboard with AC Adapter
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Product was as described. Please with it when received. Nice keyboard, for easy transport.

By: Debbe

Debbe — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:49:28 +0000

This keyboard has it all!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I purchased this as a gift for my son who has never played a keyboard.(He is 20 years old.) By the end of the first day he was playing most of a song quite well. He is thrilled with this keyboard and is slowly figuring out all the things it is capable of. We just ordered the midi cable connector so he can connect to his computer. This is a wonderful keyboard for a beginner and experienced alike.He especially likes the sensitive key aspect so that all notes aren’t played at the same volume. For the price there is no way you can go wrong with this.