Electric Keyboard/synth suggestion
 

Hello,
I'm a trumpet player and my son plays piano. He is 14 and has been playing and taking lessons for about 8 years. He has a regular gig playing organ at the church on Sundays. I want to buy him a keyboard/Synth for Christmas. Something with weighted keys or the touch of a real piano. I don't know if I need 88 keys or not. I also was wondering if they have foot pedal attachments like the ones on organs? I want to spend about $2500. Does anybody have any suggestions? Thank you.

weighted keys are hard to find in a keyboard, althout 2500 can get you a pretty decent keyboard. The keyboard i have is more for like rock band purposes, same with alot of people here, although im sure somebody has something your looking for. I suggest going to like music123.com and finding a keyboard that has the things you want in it then check out some customer reviews.

Get a Moog or a Korg.

sounds like this guy wants something a bit classical. imo korgs are great for dance and electro. yamaha and roland both make great stage pianos (i'm assuming thats more the thing that you want.

Well Moogs are great for classical parts and solos, this is why many of da prog bands use them.

But Moogs are strictly about the synth, so if you want something with a more authentic keyboard sound then Yamaha would be the right choice. I'd say try them both out and see which you like best.

I'd say if you're going to spend in that price range, you should go for a Korg Triton... I wanted one of those for the longest time and has the perfect sensitivity and everything to function as a piano, tons of piano and organ modules, and if he's fourteen he'll probably appreciate all the other nifty stuff. Plus, they're really easy to hook up to the computer so you can record his playing or whatever.

And most MIDI-compatible keyboards should have foot pedal inputs.

About the pedals, I think you can get electronic pedals that you can plug into the keyboard/ electronic piano. But I think it's only the sustain pedal, since demand for the left foot pedal is in low demand 'cause it doesn't really do 'out.