What I like about the Yamaha PSR range, in particular the PSR 3000, is the sound quality and a huge range of “voices” – these are synthetic sounds that even the most critical of music lovers would be hard-pressed to distinguish from the real thing. For example, grand piano, electric pianos, "live" and "cool" nylon guitar, tenor sax, alto sax, baritone sax. Pan flutes and a large range of different flutes and wood-wind instruments. Far too many others to list here… These sounds are so authentic, that you can hear for example, the wind as it is blown into a wind instrument and the subtle sound of the fingers being applied to the strings on the frets of a string instrument. These authentic sounds come about because the keys are “touch sensitive”. That means, that just like a conventional acoustic piano, the harder you press and hit the keys more expression and volume you get out of the tone. At around £1,000 the PSR 3000, is the penultimate in professional keyboards, known also as work-stations, the Tyros being the Yamaha’s flagship costing from around £2,000 to just over £3,000. As a trained musician, I find the PSR 3000 more than adequate for my needs, but it can also be a excellent instrument for beginners too, as on the mounted colour TFT screen, the user can select from a variety of songs, have the instrument play them and have the music score play along and watch a “bouncing ball” indicate what notes are being played and even permit the player to play along with it. An excellent way to practice.