Best affordable music Keyboards under ($100-$200) for absolute beginners

Best affordable music keyboards for absolute beginners in the ($100-$200) price range. You will find several 61-key keyboards in this price range, some with touch sensitive keys, and some with mini sized versions as well.

Introduction

There are a lot of inexpensive options available to beginners nowadays, and depending on how you’re going to use the keyboard, you may choose one of them.

Few things to remember though:

• Casio and Yamaha have been consistently producing some of the best electronic keyboards for beginners, for years
• Few more brands such as Rockjam, Hamzer, Plixio are also making their presence felt, but they offer very few variants, and are good options only if you want to buy the cheapest
• Casio and Yamaha keyboards, although a bit expensive, have better sound quality, built-in lessons and most of them come with touch-sensitive keys
• All these keyboards are electronic keyboards with lots of voices, styles, effects and built-in lessons.

Cheap music Keyboards priced ($100-$200)

Best 61-key Keyboards

These are the best 61-key keyboards for beginners and they come with touch-sensitive keys (good feature to have for learning to play keyboards).

Best Keyboards with Lighted Keys

Keyboards with light-up keys that teach you to play songs. Fun way to learn to play the keyboard.

More Cheap Keyboards (without touch-sensitive keys)

These are available at great price point (among the cheapest), have great features but most of the keyboards do not come with touch-sensitive keys. These are great for children and casual learners.

Foot/Floor Piano Mats

Piano mats are fun for the entire family and its very easy to play simple songs. These are also great party toy games for children.

Keyboards for various prices
Best Keyboards/Pianos for Various Prices: Cheapest to the most expensive ones

Things to Consider

• While you will definitely get a 61-key keyboard under $100, the keyboard may not come with touch sensitive keys
  For touch-sensitive keys, you will have to shell out a bit more than 100 dollars.Also Read: Touch sensitive vs weighted keys: Differences explained.
• For around 200 bucks, you should be able to find an inexpensive 76-key keyboard (but definitely not an 88-key keyboard)
• Keyboards under 200 dollars will not come with full weighted keys (some of them may have semi-weighted keys)
• A $500 keyboard is going to sound a lot better (powerful speakers, better sound samples) than a $100-$200 muic keyboard. A $500 keyboard will have realistic sounding tones and styles, will also better recording features, and will also integrate well with computer.For $500, you can even opt for an 88-key portable piano with weighted keys (will have limited selection of sounds, and no styles).

  Checkout the Best Keyboards/Pianos for various prices

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