Willfate said:
the other near to $2000 are better den P70?
You mention $$ is not 1st priority. If that's true, how far can you stretch your budget? You should try Jazzfish's P120 before considering the P70. If your budget is higher, there are more options.
All the models I recommended are weighted keys. Roland keys are also very good. In terms of touch, Yamaha is best, Roland second, then comes the rest. In terms of piano sound, Roland first, Yamaha second, then the rest. Of course, these are very subjective and you really have to try out yourself. But most people who are pianists will generally agree with this.
In the end, you have to try them out and see for yourself. I always say that in the end, the thing that helps you make up your mind is the "X" factor.
Before we discuss about digital piano pedals, we may need to clarify slightly on what pedals do. On the upright piano, we usually have 2-3 pedals. The right is the damper or sustain pedal - self-explanatory. Left pedal is the una corda (soft pedal) - moves the hammer closer to the strings so it gets softer. The middle pedal is the practice pedal - moves a felt in between the hammers and strings so you get a greatly muted sound.
On the grand piano, we usually have 2-3 pedals. Right - damper. Left - soft (moves the hammers slightly to the left so it hits 2 stings instead of 3, making it softer). Middle - sostenuto (when pressed down, it holds the notes your fingers are already pressing, then other notes after that are not sustained - very good for impossible stretches like Debussy work etc).
Most budget digital pianos comes with 1 pedal port (ie the damper pedal). Yamaha P70 has a half-damper pedal function (but must buy their FC-3 foot pedal). Higher end models usually have 2 pedal ports (damper and an assignable soft/sostenuto). They also have a 3rd port which is an expression pedal port. If you think about it, there's really not much need for a soft pedal in a digital piano. Most keyboards (if not all) simply decrease the volume of the sound when one step on the soft pedal. This can be easily done by just lowering the volume fader. In actual fact, pressing the soft pedal not only changes the volume but also the timbre of the piano sound - this change is not captured by keyboards being limited by the amount of RAM. Only samplers have that capability. So soft/sostenuto pedals are only useful if you want to play with samplers. For digital pianos/synths etc, we don't use the soft pedal often. However, we do use it as a switch pedal which when assigned, can be used to trigger a number of things - this applies more to synths and outboard gears, not so much with digital pianos. Sostenuto is not commonly used since we don't usually play Debussy on our digital pianos (although
I do!). So...damper pedal is sufficient most of the time.
Sounds like the best fit.
