50 year old brother wants a keyboard!

[Tracey]

Hi, I don't know if you can help but my 50 year old brother has decided he wants to learn the electric keyboard and has asked for one got Christmas! I have no idea what to buy, we have a budget of around £100, can anyone recommend a decent second hand one that will do the job? He's never played before, total novice! Any feedback very much appreciated, Thanks in advance t

 

[mark vaughan]

hi I have been learning a few months on a Yamaha psr e333 I got mine used on at local music shop there will be loads on ebay the newer model I think is e343 again you should get for around 100 used great keyboard highly recommend it whatever you get make sure it has got touch sensitive keys , in fact I am selling mine in the near future as I looking to upgrade I live in chesterfield Derbyshire if your anywhere near you are welcome to come and have a look

 

[SeaGtGruff]

I don't know what this person is willing to let their PSR-S950 go for, but the current bid is £36-- which is far, far less than it's worth, so I doubt they'll let it go that cheaply:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-PS..._MusicalInstr_Keyboard_RL&hash=item2eda94c8bb

As far as the more recent Yamaha keyboards (i.e., those introduced within the last decade), the PSR-E4xx models are about the best you can get without going into a much higher price range (the next step up as far as current models would be the PSR-S650). The PSR-E4xx models might be a bit more than a rank beginner needs, but they'd be easy enough for a beginner to use while still providing plenty of features to "grow" into. Following are some UK eBay listings sorted by model, from newest to oldest-- the newer models have more voices and features than the older models, but even the older models weren't too shabby and would be pretty good buys at bargain prices. Only the PSR-E443 and PSR-E433 have the "DJ patterns" feature, as well as the ability to save and load "user files" (a type of backup file) from a USB thumb drive, so either of them would be preferable over the other models-- but they're probably also way over your budget, whereas the earlier models can be bought used for considerably less.

PSR-E443:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-PS...5129112?pt=Keyboards_MIDI&hash=item58b8a7d618

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-YAMAH...2337125?pt=Keyboards_MIDI&hash=item3398875165

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-PS..._MusicalInstr_Keyboard_RL&hash=item4d2626b802

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/YAMAHA-Po...calInstr_Keyboard_RL&var=&hash=item51c4ae8f70 (I guess you'd need to be sure to specifically ask for the PSR-E443 package.)

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-Yamah..._MusicalInstr_Keyboard_RL&hash=item2edaa2d8e4

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-Yamah..._MusicalInstr_Keyboard_RL&hash=item234678b247

PSR-E433:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-PS..._MusicalInstr_Keyboard_RL&hash=item2a48375dc4

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/yamaha-PS..._MusicalInstr_Keyboard_RL&hash=item2c923c7d03

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Keyboard-..._MusicalInstr_Keyboard_RL&hash=item2c9274b64a

PSR-E423:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-Ps..._MusicalInstr_Keyboard_RL&hash=item19f820292d

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-PS..._MusicalInstr_Keyboard_RL&hash=item4d297eafb3

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-PS..._MusicalInstr_Keyboard_RL&hash=item462eadda24

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-PS..._MusicalInstr_Keyboard_RL&hash=item1e9665f0df

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/yamaha-ps..._MusicalInstr_Keyboard_RL&hash=item339a18e2ea

PSR-E413:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-PS..._MusicalInstr_Keyboard_RL&hash=item3a9d433c28

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-PS..._MusicalInstr_Keyboard_RL&hash=item4d297c3080

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/YAMAHA-PS..._MusicalInstr_Keyboard_RL&hash=item2a4851226a

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-PS..._MusicalInstr_Keyboard_RL&hash=item43d3e44fff

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-PS..._MusicalInstr_Keyboard_RL&hash=item259ab04e45

PSR-E403:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/yamaha-ke..._MusicalInstr_Keyboard_RL&hash=item1c4a9ca95c

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-Pi..._MusicalInstr_Keyboard_RL&hash=item418bb3bcd2

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-PS..._MusicalInstr_Keyboard_RL&hash=item418c1821a3

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-PS..._MusicalInstr_Keyboard_RL&hash=item2eda9cd413

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-Ps..._MusicalInstr_Keyboard_RL&hash=item20f1b9c1fc

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-PS..._MusicalInstr_Keyboard_RL&hash=item19f8683ce6

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-PS..._MusicalInstr_Keyboard_RL&hash=item4ae17e7c2c

 

[Tracey]

Wow, thank you so much, I'll have a look and hopefully get one bought! Tracey

 

[Tracey]

Tha

hi I have been learning a few months on a Yamaha psr e333 I got mine used on at local music shop there will be loads on ebay the newer model I think is e343 again you should get for around 100 used great keyboard highly recommend it whatever you get make sure it has got touch sensitive keys , in fact I am selling mine in the near future as I looking to upgrade I live in chesterfield Derbyshire if your anywhere near you are welcome to come and have a look

thank you for that, unfortunately we are quite away from you. I've got my eye on a few on ebay at the moment, fingers crossed one comes in at the right price. Thanks again t