I began to play in 1956. Did piano bar 55+ years. Dreamed always of a 19 pound 88 key instrument. Bought mine 3 weeks ago and named her "Sweet Baby" !!! 😃👍
I have the Williams Allegro 2 and that also has great sound quality. Probably my favorite thing of the William pianos is the richness of the sound (has nice depth and tone)
@Pedro Santana It's semi-weighted. I have one, and people keep saying it's not weighted at all (total lie). You have to put only a small amount of pressure, and doesn't really have the same mechanism as most digitals and acoustics. I believe the keys have a spring mechanism
So I’ve had this piano for about a year. always sounds great and I’ve had hardly any problems with the on board speakers. I suggest getting a better sustain pedal. Mine didn’t last long but worked for the start. I’ve learned so much with it, mostly the sound though I will applaud. It brings out more confidence in yourself when you’re confident in the sound. But as with all things it’s still entry level. You will end up wanting more . But I doubt I’d let this thing go. Definitely get it if you’re scared to drop 500+ on something you may not continue doing. or just want a good keyboard without breaking the wallet
From 1988 to 1995, Peavey made a few digital pianos and keyboards, all of them had sound engines of varying quality, their Flagship digital piano was called the DPM 488, those particular keyboards were sampled from Roland's high-end digital pianos of the time(hp1300, hp1500), basically, what Williams did was take the sound engine of a DPM 488 and a handful of the bread-and-butter sounds and integrate them on their pianos, which is one reason for their low-cost, so basically what you're getting with Williams pianos are second-hand recordings of an early/mid 90's top of the line digital piano, the action is fantastic, the on board speakers don't do the sound samples Justice, coming through the proper amplification system, overall, by today's standards, I would describe Williams piano samples as "better than Casio but not quite as good as everyone else"......
Nice..Keyboard. 88-Key full, size... huge pianouhh. I have a Casio piano keyboard, not that many keys. Seems like a good high quality(ish) simple keyboard, this Legato one. La La Land was nice..
I like that stand! I have a cheap x-style universal stand but the one she's using in the video is way higher quality. Where could I find a similar one for my Legato III?
Gonna be honest could’ve done better on the keys and make the flats/sharps straight but for $200 it’s really good! Also, the foot pedal, just throw that away and get one on amazon. Trust me.
@@WideOpenChange my main gripe with the keys is that the touch response when depressing the keys doesn't mimic the hammers on a real piano at all...feels like a toy..my Casio 135 , 5 months old,is certainly of better workmanship but to find it at the same price as the Williams like I did means it's on sale again
Touch sensitive means that if you hit the key hard the sound will be loud and if you hit the key lightly the sound will be soft. Semi weighted refers to how the keys feel when you play them. Semi weighted keys have almost the same feel as playing a piano. Weighted hammer action keys replicate the exact feel of playing piano keys. If a synthesizer doesn't have semi weighted or weighed hammer action keys the feel is quite different from a piano. For those synthesizers the keys will feel "springy" and the keys pop right back up as soon as you've struck them. If you learned to play on a piano you're not going to like the feel of a synthesizer without semi weighed keys. For performance and a piano like feel you definitely want to get semi weighted or full weighted hammer action keys. All but the cheapest keyboards are going to be touch sensitive.
@@TheBoundlessJourney " all but the cheapest keyboards are going to be touch sensitive " All cheap keyboards are not touch sensitive .....! You confuse me...!
Why can't just one msg take the real action (weighted & hammer action) from maybe a hi end (Bosendorfer or Fazioli) concert piano & put it into an electric piano?
I know your question is from a year ago, but I have an answer for you. Yamaha makes exactly this. The front half is an actual piano and the back half is digital. A used one will run you over $10k though.
@@mrpotat680 Pffft no need for Apple. All you need is a portable recorder like a Zoom H1, or an audio interface like a Behringer U-Phoria UMC-22 attached to any computer.
It’s ok. I’d rate it an 8/10 only because my dad had to fix it when the spring inside came loose. But I’ve had it for two years now and that was the only problem.
I mean this is $200 while the nord stage is $3,000 Yea I'd recommend anyone with a nord to *not* switch to this lol Still this seems great for the price
I know it's been 5 months but if you're still considering buying this one (I did) usually guitar center has it in bundle to make it cheaper. As you saw the piano can or cannot come with the stand but usually to comes with the sustain pedal and headphones so u can practice all night without waking your parents :)
@@apollo1534 I think it was excellent for beginners. I know it doesn't have "weighted keys", so it doesn't have the true experience of a real piano (of you want a real one I got a 1931 PA Stark player piano at pianoadoptiom.com so you can get decent pianos for free ((of course you have to move it yourself but I paid $160 for a u haul which is better than paying thousands of dollars for a new piano+ $300 for piano movers)) but it *does* have touch sensibility, which is still good enough for beginners. The best thing you can take away form this keyboard is that you can play it while using headphones. You have no idea how good it feels to be able to practice at 3 am without having to worry about anyone interrupting you. Yes, I did buy it a guitar center but I got the deal online and showed it to the clerk and he was cool with it. It even came with a seat. Good luck my dude!
That's a complete lie, I've been playing the piano for 35 years and the action on this keyboard is magnificent, hooked up to a 4 by 10 Hartke cabinet with a David Eden preamp, and this piano will sound just as good as a $3,000 Roland
Not a good investment. These Williams keyboards have bottom of the barrel bits through and through. Lousy speakers, action (weighted or otherwise), and ugly piano sounds. A good, lightweight, semi-weighted alternative would be the Yamaha Piaggero.
Baloney!! I have a Williams Allegro 2 piano and the action on that is akin to my acoustic 43-inch Yamaha U2 upright, I will agree that the speakers themselves are poor quality but coming out of my Gallien-Krueger backline 110 bass amp, you'd think I was playing a high-end Roland, an amplifier with a mixer is the key to a perfect sounding keyboard no matter how cheap and flimsy it may appear to be in sound without amplification, and I've had my Williams piano for 7 years now and it still plays just as beautifully and flawlessly as it did the day I bought it
