Well, I just welcomed a new baby into the household, my 5th keyboard...and can this baby sing! Picked up my PSR2100 at Sam Ash last night. Now to start making music! BTW, I took a piano student of mine along and he bought a Yammie digital piano! (PF1000)- great keyboard too! Oh what fun!

Tim

Can you compare the Grand piano on both keyboards for us. Isn't the PF1000 a very expensive, home, weighted keyboard with similarity to the PSR2100, but with a better sounding Piano tone? Is the piano really better?
Starkeeper

Starkeeper,

I think the PF1000 is a PSR2000 with 88 hammer action keys and a better sound system. In the on-screen demo I noticed it refered to itself as a Clavinova, even tho it is not 'officially' in that line. My friend paid $3000. I know Clavinovas can go for a lot more. As far as the piano chip goes, I'd say it is identical to the PSR2000 piano, possibly the same as the 2100...not sure, since I was not able to do a true comparison in a noisy store. The only way I could do a true A-B is to take my 2100 over to his house.
I personally own a Roland KR-7 digital piano.(see my review at HarmonyCentral) I must say the Roland and the Yamaha are both great-sounding. If I had to do it all over again, I might have purchased a Clavinova instead of the Roland KR-7. I can live with either piano chip on either unit. I think the Clav has better styles and voices(strings, organs, woodwinds - I love Yamaha's sop.sax) And one thing that really impresses me with Yamaha is the extensive online support for their keyboards.
But I'm stuck with the KR until its paid off...and that's OK with me. I'll NEVER find the PERFECT keyboard. There's always a trade-off in some feature or other.

I guess that was a long answer to a short question. Sorry for the rambling.

Tim

According to the spec the arranger of the PF-1000 has only 32 polyphony. Then there are a separate 64 polyphony for the 21 natural vocies.

Tim--you're gonna' have a lot of fun! One of the things I would strongly suggest is going through the turtorial at www.psrtutorial.com . You'll find lots of great styles and more information about how to play that board than you could ever imagine.

Cheers,

Gary

The PF1000 has a tripple sampled acoustic piano which is not in the PSR2100. The interface and sequencing is just like the PSR2100 but the polyphony is a bit wierd because you don't have the full 64 voices like the PSR2100 but more like the PSR1100.
Yamaha has just come out with a new digital piano. I got them in today. They look just like the P80 but are called the P90 and they have the triple sampled piano and all the other sounds of the PF500 and the P2250 piano. This new piano sells for $1295.00 list and a street price around $1095.00. A killer combination would be a P90 on the bottom and a PSR2100 on top... And the price would be less than the PF1000! Although the PF1000 is nice, most of my customers don't like playing the organ sounds and strings, etc. on a 88 key hammer action so having 2 keyboards and spending around $2400.00 for both rather than the $2795.00 price for 1 PF1000 is probably for most a better way to go.
George Kaye
Kaye's Music Scene
Reseda, California
818-881-5566