Best Choice Products 61-Key Portable Electric Keyboard Set – Black

We bought this keyboard as a present for our musically inclined 7 year-old grandson. We wanted a “starter” keyboard to gauge his interest before purchasing more advanced. I wasn’t able to find answers to some of my questions, so I’m adding this information for others. Overall, I think this product is a good fit for our needs.

Good: The keyboard has lots of buttons and features. There are many instrument voices, including a couple of passable “grand piano” ones, and a wide range of percussion voices as well. There is a built-in metronome, and the internal speaker is decent. You can “transpose” the output in half-steps to match a vocal range. There is a “record” function, which will play back recorded passages. The headphones are ok, adjustable size. The stand and seat are of good quality and sturdy. The keyboard bolts onto the stand and is pretty light, so sits pretty steady.

Not so good: The keys are not velocity sensitive – striking the key hard gives the same volume as pressing it slowly. The key touch is very light. The “record” feature only plays back each keypress – you can’t record and play back a chord. The keys are smaller than standard (but maybe good for small hands). The enclosed manual is only a few pages and covers only a fraction of the features – experimentation will be required to figure out all the buttons. The high end of the volume range is much too loud for headphone use, especially for children.

A hard working single mom with two young children who works at the local Nail Salon that I frequent was the recipient of this keyboard as a gift. Months ago she had mentioned how she wished she had the time and resources to get back to music and playing the keyboard. Remembering this – I immediately turned to Amazon to arrange a surprise for her. The price and excellent features of the Best Choice Products 61-Key Beginners Electronic Keyboard Piano Set surpassed my expectations. It had everything necessary to restart a musical mind and deliver much more.

The kit literally does include everything you need. With the Covid-19 situation – the salon was closed. The keyboard arrived the last day the salon was open. You’d think that something like this is good to make music. My gift did more. It produced the most joyful tears of happiness… and since then has brought new happy times and future memories of the time she has had with the two kids – playing together as a family.

Out of the box – it was easy to set up. All reports are this looks and feels like some keyboards that cost hundreds of dollars more. If you miss your keyboards of know of a quarantined loved one that would appreciate a perfect gift … this is it. Do something good and make music while we sort out our distanced times.

PS Thanks to #Amazon for being there to keep delivering orders – and delivery a bunch of happiness in the process.

This is a wonderful gift and a wonderful value.

We wanted to have a beginner keyboard for our young grandson to experiment with. Reading the reviews, I understood that the sound quality was not going to be like a “real” piano, but the goal is to have something solid enough for a 3 year old to play on, and even introduce a few musical concepts. The booklet included was very easy to understand directions for using all the features on this synth. I can now have my Cassio to myself! We were very pleased with how quickly it arrived, and in what great condition. Very simple to assemble the stand and attach the keyboard, and voila, working microphone and headset. He will be able to play to his heart’s content while he’s wearing the headphones. The bench that is included is durable, comfortable, and is adjustable for 3 heights. I would even recommend this for beginner adults who might want to test out piano playing. The only drawback is that the mic doesn’t have a stand, and has to be held. It’s a very low quality mic, but we were expecting that. We didn’t want to pay a lot for something that wouldn’t stand up to a young person’s use. The mic amplifies well enough to delight a little kid. Everything we want, and at a reasonable price.