Piano Stickers for 49/61 Key Keyboard, Transparent, Laminated, Ultra Thin to the touch, Removable. 36 stickers for the white keys. Made in the UK. PS1C 61.

Excellent! I am a complete beginner and was glad they came with clear instructions (there was also a link to the website which offered further reassurance that I was placing the stickers on the correct keys for my 61-key keyboard). They were easy to fit (I used tweezers just to hold them steady when I was making sure they were straight on the key) and VERY good quality, I can tell they are going to last and not fade or fall off. It is worth paying a little extra for these compared to others which aren't such good quality. They will make learning so much easier. I have a second-hand keyboard that I cleaned up really well and they look fantastic on the white keys. Thank you very much.

What can I say other than these are a great tool for the absolute beginner or someone like me that has minimum keyboard knowledge. For me, the most useful part of these stickers is the way they show the relevant note on the music score itself as well as the note 'value'. Sure they are expensive - as a set of transfers - but they are good quality,. easy to apply and really useful for learning. And, once no longer needed (I wish), they can be removed easily with no marks left on the keyboard. Overall, a very good buy.

Keyboard: Axus AXP25 digital keyboard.I'm pretty much a complete beginner at keyboards. I started learning a few years ago, but then Life intervened, and when (the TV being so lousy recently) I thought I'd give it another go, I hauled my old one out of the back of my closet, only to find something had killed it. Recalling how my back used to ache after sitting playing at the dining table, I decided I'd better do the thing properly this time.I bought the keyboard from Norton's Instruments. Actually it was a set: keyboard, X-frame support and headphones. It arrived promptly and was well packed, but it turned out that the headphones had been left out. I sent a them message via the Amazon system, and received an email the next day apologising for the oversight and telling me that the headphones had been put in the post to me that day. They arrived two days later, and I'm sure my neighbours would like to join in thanking Norton for their prompt response! Based on this experience, I'd have no hesitation in recommending Norton's Instruments.The headphones are the over-the-ear type, comfortable to wear, and sound ok.The X-frame stand has three different height settings: the highest for someone standing at the keyboard to play, and the lowest for someone seated. The middle setting I'm not sure: perhaps intended for someone seated on a tall stool? Anyway, the lowest setting works for me, an average guy just short of six foot. It's a solid and sturdy bit of kit, and the spring-bolt action securely locks the frame at the chosen height setting.The Keyboard:Like I said, I'm a beginner, so I don't know anything about MIDI, and I haven't experimented with the transposition or recording features, so they're not reviewed.1: The good:It's an instrument, so it won't ever thank you for falling downstairs or something like that, but physically it seems robust enough: nothing seems obviously shoddy or flimsy.I was fairly happy with my old keyboard, but remembered how the notes sounded the same whether I played the keys firmly or softly, and was sure that learning to "add expression" later was going to mean un-learning a bunch of bad habits.A single glance at the cost of "hammer action" keyboards was enough to decide me that the cheaper "touch sensitive" keyboards were for me. So far I've been very impressed: the instrument really does feel different and more responsive, which is sometimes good and sometimes bad - when I'm playing notes with my little finger they often sound unintentionally softer, so I'm confirmed in my notion that this instrument will allow me to get away with fewer bad habits. The touch sensitivity is turned on and off by a button on the face, and is available for all the voices, whether they would "naturally" have this, (like piano,) or not (the way organs don't.)Reading the blurb on Amazon, I'd dismissed the little display panel set in the centre of the fascia as a gimmick, but actually I'm finding it surprisingly useful. It not only lists the current voice and style (accompaniment rhythm), but also the notes I'm playing, in stave notation (as whole notes, or breves). This is useful when I'm looking at the music but what I'm playing sounds wrong: I can glance down at the display and see if it's meant to sound that way or not.It says it has 300 voices, but quite a few of them sound very similar to me. (Maybe that's my uneducated ear, though.) The piano and organ voices are the best, I think - some of the organ chords are just *lush,* - woodwinds and reeds sound okay-ish, but I thought the plucked strings (e.g. guitar and banjo) were unconvincing. I like the different ways to select voices: either by entering the voice number, or by using the "knob selector:" turn it one click clockwise to advance to the next voice, or anti-clockwise for the previous voice. The voice ranges are printed on the fascia (e.g. 040-062 - Mallet) so it's easy to type in the number to jump to the right range of voices and then just turn the knob to find the precise one you want.There's a handy master volume knob that makes it easy to be good and not blast your eardrums (or other people's,) and there are the usual accompaniment options like synchro start, fade in, fill etc. It boasts 200 styles, and looking through the list at the back of the manual, they certainly do seem to have everything covered.2: The not-so-good:The on/off switch is on the back of the instrument, behind the music rest. It's not like the face of the instrument is so crowded with switches they couldn't have found space for it: why put it in such an awkward place? Lazy thinking, I suspect.The keyboard has 100 tunes built in, together with a lesson function to help you learn to play them. Frankly, I don't know why they bothered. I suspect that the major selection criterion was "royalty free", so it's the usual selection of folksy "Turkey in the straw", "Yankee Doodle," "Jingle Bells" and the like - nothing that even the blue-rinse and stretch pants brigade would ask for by name. Worse than the selection, though, is the execution: all of the ones I've listened to were played in this flat, mechanical, thump-thump-thump style that is just, frankly, boring. If I did want to play any of those tunes, I'd want to learn to play them better than that. (In fairness I should say that I haven't listened to them all: I got heartily bored by the first few, but persevered until at least half way through.)The blurb advertises the keyboard as "dual voice" - I'd thought that meant that when the keyboard is split, you could assign separate voices to the melody and accompaniment sections, but what it actually means is that you can have two voices sounding simultaneously when you play the keys. I'm not sure how much use this will be, but like I said, I'm a beginner. I suspect the main usefulness is that you can store two voices and recall either with a single button touch, so you can switch voices easily in mid-performance. I haven't experimented with this.I was disappointed to discover that when the keyboard is split, then the accompaniment (left hand) side has only a single, fixed voice. It's ok: a sort of bland, synth-ey acoustic, but it doesn't show off the instrument to its best. Maybe it's an internal design limitation rather than a dumb marketing choice, I dunno. It's turned out to be a blessing in disguise though: since the only way to turn on one-finger chords (called ABC for "Auto Bass Chords") is to have the keyboard split, it's meant that I'm learning to play chords properly (OK, at present mostly improperly!) from the get-go.For most accompaniment styles, the intro, fill, and "auto (accompaniment) start" work with the keyboard split or unsplit. Only the twenty "piano accompaniment" styles *require* that single finger (ABC) chords be switched on, and for these styles the left hand side of the keyboard is dumb/unvoiced, with the chords changing the key of the accompaniment.And 3 - the "what were they thinking???":The built-in metronome. Metronomes are simple, right? You set the tempo, and they go tick-tick-tick-tick-tick so you can concentrate on playing the piece at the correct speed and getting the duration of individual notes right. But not this metronome. Some clown thought it would be improved by having a different sound for the first beat in the bar. So this metronome, playing 4/4 time, goes *ching*-tuk-tuk-tuk-*ching*-tuk-tuk-tuk.It's not only really, really distracting, like a little song instead of a background tick, but it makes the metronome far more difficult to use. You can't just get the feel of the rhythm and start playing; you have to get the feel, and then anticipate the exact, correct moment to start playing. And when you get it wrong; as, it being practice, you inevitably do: it's much harder to get back in rhythm since you're now out of sync with metronome in terms of where the start of the bar is.No, you can't turn this "feature" off.Worse yet, if you're attempting to play in 3/4, (waltz) time, then the "ting" is still in 4/4 time, and so the "encouragement to emphasis" progresses through the bar instead of remaining on the first beat. I've bought myself a separate metronome, and I suspect you'll have to, as well. I sincerely hope that whichever IDIOT suggested this "improvement" gets her backside kicked around the Axus car park a few times.Once you've learned the fingering and are bringing yourself up to speed, you can use the relevant accompaniment (style), since you can set the accompaniment's tempo, but I find it's far too distracting in the earlier stages of learning a song.Summary and conclusions:Overall, I'm very pleased with this instrument. It's well-made, and despite a few lazy or unfortunate marketing choices (or design limitations, perhaps) I like it, and I'm enjoying learning to play it. Increasingly I use it simply as a piano, or as an organ and neither bother with the less than satisfactory voices like wind and brass, nor miss them. But if you want an instrument with a built-in lesson function I can't recommend it. Better to buy an instruction book of tunes for beginners that you *do* want to play (I'm using The Complete Keyboard Player, Book 1 by Kenneth Baker) - and buy a metronome, too.

Excellent....just what it said on the tin. Arrived quickly. I haven't stuck the stickers on yet, as it's a Christmas present. I can imagine as a novice piano player myself, it will be really helpful in learning the scales and where to place the fingers. When the prying eyes and inquisitive questions stop, I might get the opportunity to put the stickers on. Until then its after Christmas.

Excellent and so simple to fit and cheap at the price.

I bought these to help my son to play keyboards. They went on very easily and are clear. I had to remove one that was a bit skew and it peeled off easily and then when positioned stuck back down. These are very handy for anyone learning to play. Happy to recommend these.

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It's ok for beginners but not the best sound when the volume is on maximum.