Best digital pianos without bells and whistles

Best digital pianos without bells and whistles for those who want to just practice and perform. They just want a few select features and sounds.

Digital pianos and keyboards come with lot of features nowadays. While most buyers prefer such digital piano keyboards, there are some who are sure they won’t be using all those features (referred to as bells and whistles).

Here’s a typical scenario.

For example, if you have grown up playing on an acoustic piano (and know how to play it), which you probably had at home when you were growing. And then you probably took a break from playing for whatever reason — you moved to another place, the acoustic piano was sold, etc.

Years later, you want to start playing the piano again — all those beautiful songs, classical pieces that you used to play at one time.

In such a case, what they need is a nice digital piano with excellent keyboard touch (as close to an acoustic piano), beautiful sounds (piano and a few select sounds), and just a few other features (3-pedals, metronome, speakers, and USB midi).

Such players may probably not even use the MIDI feature (connecting the piano to the computer) but that is more of a standard on most digital pianos nowadays, so you are going to get that option, irrespective of whether you are going to use it or not. But, I suggest you learn how to use that feature (MIDI to computer) so that you can record and create better music, use notation software, etc.

Here are a couple of series which has digital pianos that come with few but useful features.

• Yamaha NP Pianos
• Yamaha P Pianos

Lately, the demand for compact pianos with good keyboard touch (piano like keys) has gone up. There are even a few 61-key digital pianos that come with piano like keys and come without all the bells and whistles.

Read: Best 61-key digital pianos.