Take all the following items into consideration:

First, make sure you are comparing "apples with apples".
Digital pianos can have some or all of the features listed below, which will affect its price:
· Does it have weighted, touch-responsive full size keys?
· How fancy is the furniture?
· How many orchestral sounds are available?
· Can you transpose from one key to another?
· Does it have a built-in metronome?
· How many sequencer (recording) tracks are available?
· Does it have accompaniment styles? How many?
· Does it have a disk drive?
· Is it 100% compatible with all software?

Play at 3 o'clock in the morning without disturbing anyone!
You can use headphones with a Digital Piano to play and practice in complete privacy, an important feature if you live in an apartment, share the room with other activities such as TV viewing, or if you just like to play your piano at 3 o'clock in the morning!

Save your favorite performances
A Disk Drive, either built-in or added-on, will allow the player to store performances on disks, even compile a music library. You may also choose from thousands of prerecorded performances by your favorite artists specially arranged for the new generation of "player pianos". You can listen to these recordings or play along with them!

Use it with your personal computer
Many Digital Pianos allow for future expansion or updates. These pianos can be used for multimedia applications with your personal computer. For greatest compatibility with all software, the Digital Piano must be General MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface). While all Digital Pianos have MIDI, not all Digital Pianos have the more versatile General MIDI capacity.

Read the song lyrics as you play
For a completely interactive musical experience, you may choose a Digital Piano with an instrument Display Screen from which you can read the melody, chords and song lyrics for some of your favorite tunes. These multimedia images can be broadcast to any monitor or television for group sing-alongs. By plugging a microphone into an audio input jack on the instrument, you can amplify your voice and add studio-quality digital effects. With this type of Digital Piano, anyone can sing-along with professional sounding results!

Never needs tuning!
Digital Pianos also never need tuning, and are relatively easy to move and transport.
If you want to play the piano and you've always wanted to play with an orchestra, if you live in an apartment or if you move frequently, if you are a computer buff, if you want to record yourself or have a karaoke party, perhaps a Digital Piano is the right choice for you and your family.

Marin Piano provides a variety of Digital Piano models from Roland, Kawai, Roland, Suzuki and Baldwin, each priced to provide the best value for your money.

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