Touch Response on Yamaha e373 - a demonstration

This video demonstrates the four touch response settings on the Yamaha PSR e-373 keyboard: 1) soft 2) medium 3) hard and 4) fixed. I use a piece by Schumann to demonstrate these four types. The touch response facility makes a keyboard 'feel' more like a piano and is essential. A bad choice of touch response can make a good performance difficult eg using no 4 setting (fixed) for classical lyrical piece eg Chopin.

[@majortom-ey7yj]

thank you. Which of these four touch sensitivity settings is closest to emulating a piano with weighted keys?

[@ecclestonpianoteacher9892]

Thanks for your comment. If you try out LOTS of acoustic pianos (upright and grand), as well as good digital pianos (with weighted keys), you will discover that there is an astonishing variety of weightings. So its really difficult to give you an answer! Lighter touch for younger players; heavier for more advanced tends to be an approach. Sorry not to give a straight forward answer! Regards Graham

[@judesantillan]

thank for this one

[@ecclestonpianoteacher9892]

You're very welcome! Graham

[@miyablack5523]

good video. what kind of classical pieces that I can play on this keyboard as it has only 61 keys

[@ecclestonpianoteacher9892]

Thanks for your comment. Most Baroque keyboard music eg all of Bach's music (eg 48 preludes & Fugues but they may be too tricky); generally speaking most pieces in the "Classics to Moderns" series for piano up to book 3 and probably some in bks 4, 5 and 6 as well. These books are available on Ebay and Amazon: usually reasonably priced. Regards Graham