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| List Price: | $899.99 |
| Price: | $599.99 |
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Product Description
The Williams Overture is a console style 88-Key digital piano with a sliding key-cover and full vanity panel. The Overture features an 88-note hammer-action keyboard with selectable touch response; sustain, sustenuto, and soft pedals; 64-note polyphony; 15 main voices and 128 General MIDI voices; 3 keyboard modes; effects; 2-track recording; and a built-metronome.The Overture is expertly designed and crafted to look and sound its best for years of musical enjoyment. With a dark wood grain finish the Overture has a distinctive look and style to match any home decor. Williams digital pianos have an uncompromising attention to detail that you will see and hear every time you sit at the keyboard.Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #8325 in Musical Instruments
- Brand: Williams
- Model: Overture
Features
- Console-style digital piano with sliding key-cover and full vanity panel.
- Dark Wood grain finish
- Keyboard: full size 88 Note, Hammer-action keyboard, with selectable touch response
- Pedals: Sustain, Sustenuto, Soft
- Polyphony: 64 notes maximum
Customer Reviews
Not Reviewed by a Professional
I'm certainly not a professional, however, I do know what a piano
is supposed to sound like, and I know the difference between a
Harpsichord, Organ, and a Harmonica: 'nuff said.
First of all I would like to say that the Williams Digital Piano is
by far the best instrument I have ever owned, next to my toy, an old
Casio keyboard that I owned for quite some time, I was happy to finally
sell that off in a garage sale. When I went hunting for another piano,
I took my Sony headphones and headed off to various stores with digital
pianos. This one by far sounded the closest to a real upright piano
(Well, the Yamaha was closer, but another 1K more expensive...), and it
had the features and look I was wanting.
Pros ---
1. The weighted digital piano keys mimic perfectly the
hammer-action of a real piano, and the sound is equally amazing. As I
said I tested it out in headphones, and even at home in total silence
the headphones are clear as anything and sound perfect. The built-in
speakers that are attached to the piano work equally as well. I
'tested' it note-for-note, unplugging my headphones and listening to
the built-in speakers, and I can safely say that I don't hear a
difference at all. No "fuzzy-sounds", no buzzing, no humming, etc.
Sounds nice.
2. After listening to several Harpsichord songs, I played a few
notes on the piano to compare. So far I can't tell the difference
between the notes played in the song and the ones I played on the
piano.
3. Same with the Organ and string setting, both sound equally
realistic and about as close to an acoustic piano as I'm going to get
without spending thousands of dollars.
4. I actually bought this piano online, yes, from Musicians Friend.
No, I am not an employee there, nor have I ever heard of it. I did call
them up to see how exactly it was going to be mailed. I mean, sure it
is less than 1K for the digital piano, but I wanted to make sure it
wasn't going to end up in several pieces on my doorstep. I have to say
the piano box arrived in no less than perfect condition. Go with
Musicians Friend if you are going to buy this!
Cons ---
1. Okay, so again I'm new at this. So, of COURSE I played the
Play-Along songs while I waited for my real books to arrive. One of the
irks I have is that when you use the digital piano to listen to the
play-along songs, be forewarned that it is MUCH louder than when you
are playing the piano normally. Also, if you are trying to play along,
you have to compensate the volume by turning it down to hear the song
correctly, but I also had a hard time hearing what I was playing on the
piano!
2. Same thing goes with the metronome. It is MUCH louder than the
'volume' of the piano. If I had to change something, it would be how
loud the Metronome sounds as compared to the piano. The volume, when
recording songs and playing them back, however, is at the 'same volume'
as the piano. Don't know if it is just my piano or what, but listening
to the Play-Along songs and using the metronome is quite annoying.
3. I'm a computer programmer. I bought this piano because it came
with a USB cable, anddd I thought I could use my computer knowledge to
retrieve the songs off of the Williams Digital Piano. Not-so-much.
There is no way to get the recorded songs off of the piano, the only
thing the USB cable does is transmit the MIDI messages to a computer if
you have the correct software installed. For me, kinda pointless.
Well, I think that about sums it up. Oh yeah, well, I don't think
that this is a "Con" per-se, however: this piano comes disassembled.
Which means that you have to assemble it. Fine, but the problem lies:
this piano does not have instructions included to tell you how to
assemble the piano. I, personally, was able to assemble is promptly.
However, at first it was irksome laying out all the pieces and figuring
out what goes where.