Are Portable Keyboards a Healthy Substitute For a Piano?

Are Portable Keyboards a Healthy Substitute For a Piano

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Instrumental learning is volitional by nature, and only by understanding the comparative nature of electronic keyboard and piano playing respectively can we guide and advise pupils towards musical learning outcomes that satisfy their personal interests and aptitudes.

A final challenge for keyboard teachers today is to show their pupils that playing for fun while immensely valuable need not be the end of the story. For the gifted player and committed musician, there are many opportunities for further development.

A committed keyboard player will usually want to explore not only the most advanced electronic keyboards but also synthesisers, pianos, and other instruments, both as a solo player and a member of groups or ensembles.

It is a common misconception among parents who wish their children to learn the piano that the portable electronic keyboard was basically developed as a "budget" and convenient alternative. Sometimes school teachers, heads and governors share this misconception. It is particularly unfortunate when piano teachers also appear to suffer from this same misconception.

Students taught by such teachers often become frustrated and either stop learning altogether or find an alternative teacher who will teach them the electronic keyboard properly. Those teachers intent on enforcing a traditional piano-teaching approach with their keyboard students soon realise the ineffectiveness of using keyboards in this manner.

The keys on a keyboard are far lighter than on a piano, and this lack of cushioning/weight makes accuracy more difficult, not easier.

"Touch Response" is velocity based, requiring a different finger technique to that used for the weighted keys of an acoustic piano

Plug-in pedals do not emulate the sophisticated techniques possible using a piano's sustaining pedal.

Too many music teachers still believe that the electronic keyboard is at best a beginner's introduction to music and that players should be encouraged to move on to "better things" as quickly as possible. This is simply untrue, and I trust that having considered the points I have made above you too will now look at how challenging electronic keyboard teaching can be both for the teacher and for the pupils! I hope that parents can now have a greater appreciation and understanding of this now.

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