Music Keyboard Yamaha PSR F51. Full Review. Is it Good?

Today we are analyzing a 61-key Yamaha keyboard in the PSR range. The Yamaha PSR E and F Series are a series of keyboards designed for beginners and people who want to experiment with a keyboard and a multitude of sounds without great pretensions. Then there’s the more professional PSR S series.

The Yamaha PSR F51 is the evolution of the Yamaha PSR F50 and they are the same, simply a change of acronyms.

It is a very inexpensive keyboard with 120 different piano and other instrument sounds and 32-voice polyphony. Polyphony is the number of notes that can sound at once. If you are playing on top of accompaniment also consumes the polyphonic memory but with 32 you have plenty for an initial level. We’ll tell you where to buy it, but keep reading that the review continues.

Where to Buy Yamaha PSR F51? (if Yamaha PSR 263 has better price the link will redirect you to this item)

Amazon

  • Free Shipping and the possibility of shipping in one day with Amazon Premium.
  • Full Guarantee but they are no experts in music equipment
  • A leader in fast shipments.
  • The price change a lot daily.
  • The best option in USA and worldwide

Apart from all that amount of sounds the Yamaha PSR F51 includes:

  • Pantalla LCD que mejora la usabilidad y el cambiar de funciones.
  • Efecto Reverb y Chorus (más brillo, como tocar en un iglesia)
  • Metronome and headphone output
  • Duet mode para tocar dos personas a la vez.
  • Power supply included.

I’m sure you’ll be interested in…

Advantages of the PSR F51

No doubt price below 100 € and portability as it only weighs 3.4 kg which makes you can take it to acoustic tests with other instruments that do not sound much like a guitar. In that case, it’s a good choice as a secondary keyboard. As mentioned above, it is battery operated and also comes with a power cord.

It has a headphone output so you can play silently and plug it into a small amplifier with minijack input.

It has two 2.5 W speakers but they are not very powerful either. We leave you a video so you can hear how it sounds and then we tell you its limitations:

Limitations of the Yamaha PSR F51

The Yamaha PSR F51 keyboard serves as a secondary keyboard for composing and practicing harmony. To make chords and see how they sound.

It is also suitable for having fun but you have to bear in mind that it is not suitable for learning. A piano needs at least to have sensitivity in the keys to regulate the volume, sustain pedal input to sustain the sound of the note in time (and this does not have it).

The Yamaha PSR F51 doesn’t even have a sensitivity (although you do have sensitivity and Hammer Action).

If your budget is about 100 € and you want a child to use it to learn this is not the option. But you have options with a sensitive keyboard and sustain pedal that also has MIDI to connect to the computer between 100 and 150 €.

Check out the Yamaha PSR E363 or the Casio CTK 3500 for a very similar price. Both keyboards feature sensitivity, sustain pedal input, and MIDI for connection to the computer.

MIDI is important because it lets you do things like record what you play in a program and then exports it to a score with a single click with any music production software.

On the other hand, if you want to study piano more seriously with a piano with Hammer Action (weight on the keys) at the end of the article we link our ranking with the best digital pianos of the moment in relation quality-price.

Yamaha PSR F50 vs Yamaha PSR F51

Nothing significant, it’s just a re-launch with aesthetic changes.

Where to buy it?

As we said before this keyboard you will find it at the best price in Amazon. If you are not happy you can return it without any problem and the logistics are the best. The keyboard always arrives without problems. Thomann and Woodbrass don’t sell it because they prefer models like the CTK 3500 and PSR E363.

If it’s worth it with this great keyboard although we leave you some very interesting post if you want more features and possibilities:

For a similar price you have the following pianos and keyboards:

 

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Jaime Echagüe

Hi! I'm Jaime Echagüe, a musician and an authentic fan of musical instruments. With this blog I want to give general information about musical instruments in an easy, direct and honest way. I hope you enjoy my website and that you find it very useful.

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