Kids Keyboard Piano, 37 Key Portable Electronic Piano for Kids, Digital Music Piano Keyboard Educational Toys for 3 4 5 6 7 8 Year Old Girls Boys (Black)

Grandson Loves This!
Great keyboard – they have multiple options. For the same price you can get the one with the microphone.

a toy for kids
I previously read through the reviews for this item and another item that was similar, same color, came with more keys, features, and was only $5 more expensive. That particular item had some reviews about the fire and smoke due to the charging set up and the batteries. So, to stay on the safe side, I chose this item.First, my daughter wanted some keyboard in pink color and had something to do with a princess. Those were the key decision points. There are not many alternatives in pink color, other than the previously mentioned bigger one that has smoke-fire problem. I knew this item sounded like a toy, came with tiny keys, and was actually a toy.Pros:* It is cheap. If your kid grows tired of it, then you save the money that you would have spent on a instrument quality item.* Some reviews stated it had one speaker working. Actually both speakers are working with the one I got.* It has a built in battery, thus your kid can carry it around* It is very small and lightweight. So it is not a problem for a 6 yrs old to move it around.* It has a small detachable microphoneCons:* It is a toy (what should you expect)* Built in batteries give me the creeps as they may catch fire or smoke. Just in case, we charge it on granite counter-top.* Keys are super tiny. As the father, I cannot play something for my daughter. I used to play a large size keyboard with full size keys (yamaha psr 4500) when i was 11 years old.* Microphone and charging cable are toy quality, doesn’t look quite durable.* When switched on, the sound setting defaults to MAX. That is too loud.All in all, you get your money’s worth. I hope it lasts 2 months and some more. It is something you can use to keep the kids busy during the covid-19 school break and see if they have interest in music without investing in something expensive

Great Starter
I think this was a good starter keyboard for a child, however it does die way too easily and almost doesn’t work at all without being plugged up.

Cute, kind of charming, but musically defective!
Just got it today. It’s cute and kind of charming, but it plays many chords incorrectly. This explanation may require a bit of musical theory knowledge of chords, but I’ll summarize it here and give a fuller explanation in later paragraphs.Here’s the problem – play a major chord in the root position (1-3-5) – it plays correctly. Play a major chord in the first inversion (3-5-1) – it adds a minor 10th (3-5-1-b10). Play a major chord in the second inversion (5-1-3) – it plays correctly.For the minor chords, it does something similar, but messes up the second inversion instead of the first inversion.Will a three-year-old who’s not a Mozart prodigy care? Probably not. The harmony issues are a little advanced for someone more likely to be drawn to the frog, bird, duck, and dog sounds.But, here’s why it matters to a musician or someone wanting to use this as a convenient study tool:We have a full-size acoustic upright piano. My wife plays well, but only by reading notation on the staff. She does not yet improvise and is beginning to learn more about music theory – particularly chords and inversions. She wanted a small keyboard she could play at the kitchen counter with the idea of using it to learn and practice chord inversions without sitting at the full-size piano. Once she had that knowledge, she planned to save the keyboard and give it to our young grandson when he’s a little older.But when I started testing the keyboard, I ran through the inversions and realized that something was seriously wrong with the sounds. If you are familiar with the notes of a piano keyboard but not so familiar with the numeric notation above, here’s how it works on this keyboard:The C major chord has the notes C, E, and G. If you play those notes in order from left-to-right on the keyboard, and hold them down together, you are playing the C major chord in root position. If you then hold down E, G, and C from left-to-right, you are playing the C major chord in the first inversion. In this inversion the E and G are in the same place as when you played in root position, but in the first inversion the C note is played an octave above the C in root position. BUT – if you do this on this keyboard, it adds an additional note to the three you are holding down. In this case, it adds the Eb above the C you are playing. So you are hearing E, G, C, Eb. It’s no longer a C major chord. Like I said above, it mangles the second inversion of a minor chord, too.Since hearing what you are playing is part of learning about the keys you are playing, this is not a practical way to use this device. On another note (heh-heh), at first I though it might be fun to bring it along to a campfire jam and play a few chords along with the guitars and mandolins and so forth. Not now. (Unless I want to use if for well-timed duck quacks and such!)Too bad, since so many other aspects are pretty decent. It has 8 rhythm patterns with a tempo control. It would be neat to be able to practice chord progressions along with the beats, but you’d have to give up a third of your three-note chord options.Anyway, our grandson is still too young for this, so this one will be returned.