Yamaha P-250 keyboard features and reviews

Yamaha’s website claims:

If you play music for a living, you deserve a digital piano that offers the finest selection of acoustic pianos, organs, electric pianos and other essential keyboard sounds. You deserve a hammer-action keyboard that’s so smooth and responsive it feels just like a real piano.

You deserve comprehensive master controller functions and full XG MIDI implementation for connecting to computers, synth modules and other equipment in your musical arsenal. You deserve the P-250.

The P-250 boasts:

• 88-note Graded Hammer-Effect Keyboard (developed with Yamaha’s 100+ years’ experience in acoustic piano design)
• Dynamic Stereo Sampling Layers: Four layers of sampling, 128 note polyphony.
• Four pedalling modes: sostenuto, soft, sustain and expression.
• Ultra Expressive Voices: 48MB wave ROM.
• 5-band equaliser
• Full-function 16-track MIDI sequencer
• USB-to-host-PC system
• Built-in speaker system
• Pitch-bend and modulation wheels

Reviews

The Yamaha Keyboard Guide gives a favourable review of the P250. Notable points are the ’superb’ graded hammer action keys - heavier in the bass and lighter in the treble registers as per an acoustic grand piano - the ‘phenomenal’ sound, through built-in speakers that ‘don’t disappoint’, and the 128-note polyphony that means notes will rarely, if ever, cut out. The only downside is the weight, but this goes with the territory of genuine-action keys.

Harmony Central shares user reviews of the P250. One reader prefers the sounds of the P-60, though the action is better on the P-250.

Do you own the P-250? What do you think? Leave a comment below.