Good Bye Yamaha YPG-235
Posted By Scott on January 9, 2010
I’ll really miss my Yamaha YPG-235. I sold it on EBAY for a reasonable used item price. This is the 76 key keyboard I practiced and learned on for like six months before I got my Roland Juno Stage. Even after I got the Stage I still played this guy almost daily as I really liked the built in metronome, simple boogie drum beat number 83 and the default grand piano sound for playing Boogie Woogie type tunes. This unit also does a bit of arranging and recording. For someone just starting out any of the Yamaha YPG models are a great first keyboard choice. It even has a nice detachable sheet music stand built into it!
Yamaha YPG-235 - sold
I’ve had a couple emails from people thinking of buying one asking me why did I sell mine? Well mainly because I just only have room for like two full size keyboards in my little play room. Also I want to practice most of the time on the keyboard I plan to perform on and that is the Roland Juno Stage. One person asked if they should get the 88 key version instead of 76. Well for someone starting out 88 keys surely are not necessary. This keyboard only splits two ways so you still have a lot of keys for each hand to cover. More expensive keyboards will usually allow you to split the keyboard into 4 parts or even 16 parts like my Roland Juno Stage does. Those 16 parts by the way are each a separate MIDI track. There are plenty of songs where the keyboardist can use a piano and an organ and one a 88 keyed keyboard split in the middle can easily cover that. That is something someone in a performing band might really need but it’s not something a beginner would use. The internal speakers on any of these portables are a little weak for my tastes. I had the YPG-235 plugged into a Roland KC-60 and a Subwoofer and it sounded fantastic.
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