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Yamaha's P-145BT puts a graded-hammer 88-key board and a CFIIIS grand sample on any wide desk for $529.99; the stand, the half-damper pedal and wireless app control each cost extra.
A clip-on chromatic tuner that reads string vibration, calibrates from 415 to 466 Hz and hides a metronome on its side. Snark's own site gives it three sentences and no price; the manual and a retailer fill in the rest.
Kala's $99 concert model keeps the same mahogany build as its $69 soprano but adds an inch and a quarter of scale, six more frets and a body that fits adult hands better.
Kala's $69 soprano covers the parts that matter on a starter instrument, but the listing skips tuner hardware and box contents, so plan on a clip-on tuner and a gig bag from day one.
