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| | Yamaha YPT-310 61 Full Size Keyboard Bundle | | | | | 61 Full Size Keys.
32 Notes of Polyphony.
Portable Grand with the realism of a Stereo Grand Piano.
Style File Format (SFF) allows you to download style data from the internet.
2-Track Sequencer and Flash ROM Store Your Music.
| | Publisher : | | Yamaha | | Edition : | | Electronics, Pages | | Inventory : | | 2 Available | | Store Price : | | $379.88 | | Artistopia's Price: $229.62 | | |
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| | | | Customer Reviews of This Item | |  Good Keyboard, but horrible headphones
Submitted on: 2009-11-19 | | | For the price, this is a great keyboard. However, as part of the bundle, the headphones are of extremely cheap quality. After a few days, the music only comes into the right headphone, in addition, the jack adapter for 6.3mm became very loose inside and didn't provide solid connection to the headphones - hence no sound at all. I wound up going to a local reputable music store and getting intro, but decent quality, sennheiser headphones. And the bummer is that I don't know of a way to just return/exchange the headphones from this bundle without returning everything. From now on, I will stay away from bundles, and just get each individual item - at least I will know the maker of each item. | | | | Great learning keyboard, with one upgrade
Submitted on: 2009-10-18 | | I finally started taking piano lessons, and this keyboard is my practice instrument. One thing I started to dislike is the sound of the lower octaves - the built in speakers just don't have the size to do the left-hand side justice.
I then came upon an idea. I had in my closet an old 2.5 PC speaker system - two stereo mini speakers with a woofer box. I hooked this PC system up to the keyboard and WOW - what a difference! Point is, you don't have to get an amp and big, expensive speakers to get more 'tone' out of this (or any) portable keyboard. Just search for cheap, second hand PC speakers of decent quality. | | | | Love the keyboard, hate the stand
Submitted on: 2009-10-13 | | This keyboard is great. It's the "extras" that aren't so good!
When I opened the huge box that came in the mail I felt as though there had been a misunderstanding. My beautiful Yamaha keyboard was included in its own glorious box, but there were also two cheap, nondescript boxes as well. Those boxes contained the stand and the headphones. Although the headphones looked as if they were purchased at a swap meet for about $5, they work. It's the stand that is the problem.
I had assumed that the stand would be compatible with the keyboard. It isn't, really. If you live alone without and pets, this stand should be fine. But I have a baby, dogs, and cats in the house, and I just couldn't risk leaving a $200 keyboard unsecured on top of this stand. It could easily tip and fall over. The bottom of the keyboard has two groves to create a secure fit with a stand, but this stand DOES NOT FIT IN THE GROOVES! Since it is an adjustable x-stand, as the stand gets lower the bars on top get farther apart. Also, it's not a Yamaha stand.
I ended up ordering the Yamaha L3C Attachable Keyboard Stand for an additional $35 (http://www.amazon.com/Yamaha-L3C-Attachable-Keyboard-Stand/dp/B000YID5OG/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_2). I suggest buying the JUST THE keyboard through Best Buy or another electronics store for around $170 and then ordering the stand separately through Amazon. That way you'll come out at the same price instead of having to spend an additional $35 after the fact, like me :(
| | | | Loved my keyboard
Submitted on: 2009-10-09 | | | Loved my keyboard but it was missing a small cord. When I contacted Amazon they instantly gave me a 20% discount. Although I would have liked to have received all the items, I did appreciate the 20% discount. I would recommend this product to anyone interested. | | | |  Nice Keyboard
Submitted on: 2009-10-09 | | I have the YPT-310 and it is a lot of fun to play. The keys are not full-size piano keys, so I don't know exactly how Yamaha got the "Full Size Keyboard Bundle". Since my hands are not large, the smaller keys make a LOT of music much easier to play.
The different voices are what I find the neatest. I just take a few measures of my piece and cycle through all the voices quickly to find something good. Even though you have only 61 keys, some voices fill in a lower base line, and you can get a very full complex sound without much effort.
Since I already play piano, I don't use any of the learning stuff. And I don't use any of the pre-recorded songs or percussion tempos, etc. Either you are going to play something authentic, or listen to a recording on you iPod. All the in-between automatic electronic combo features don't have the variance of a real group playing ... way too smooth and regular.
Also the touch sensitive feature doesn't have a lot of touch sensitive, not even close to a piano.
I don't know how anyone could find any fault with this keyboard. The next step up (88 full size keys with piano touch sensitive) is three to four times most costly and a heavier weight to carry with little difference in sound.
So this is definitely the best value I've ever seen.
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