Eighty-eight keys, and what they weigh · review
The least expensive 88-key instrument on this shelf, and the only one with wireless MIDI — but with 800 tones and 600 rhythms it is an arranger in a piano aisle, and this page says so first.
What it amounts to Eighty-eight semi-weighted keys, wireless MIDI and a pedal in the box for under two hundred dollars. With 600 rhythms it is an arranger wearing a piano’s key count, and nothing about its polyphony, weight or speakers is published.
Eighty-eight semi-weighted, touch-sensitive keys. Wireless MIDI and wireless audio, plus USB-MIDI. Eight hundred tones, 600 rhythms, 80 demo songs, dual tone layering. An LED display, a metronome and chord modes. A sustain pedal, a music stand and key stickers in the box.
Two of those deserve the attention.
Wireless MIDI is the one nothing else on this shelf has. It means the keyboard talks to a tablet or a laptop without a cable across the room, which on an 88-key instrument that lives against a wall is a real convenience. USB-MIDI is there too, so the wire is an option rather than a requirement.
Six hundred rhythms is the one that decides what this instrument is. An arranger plays a backing band: a style, a chord, and the drums and bass follow. That is a different machine from a piano, and the keyboards shelf on this site is where they normally sit — with their own pages explaining Smart Chord, accompaniment styles and polyphony. What puts this listing in the piano aisle is the 88 semi-weighted keys, and the key count is real.
So the honest framing is this: an arranger with a piano’s keybed, at the lowest price on this shelf.
Semi-weighted is the middle rung and Vediya says so plainly rather than claiming a hammer action. Two pianos on this shelf publish a hammer action and one of those is graded — heavier at the bass end as on an acoustic. Semi-weighted adds resistance to a synth key; it is better than a spring and it is not a mechanism.
What is absent is every figure. No polyphony — which no piano on this shelf publishes, and the page for one of them notes the same silence. No weight, and the product record holds nothing either. No speaker power. On an instrument with 800 tones, how many of them can sound at once is the question that decides whether a sustained passage drops notes, and nothing answers it.
Read on the day this page was built: $168 at the American Amazon shop.
Read from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and price both move without notice.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 2026-10-07. The live price is at the top of the page.
| Keys | 88, semi-weighted and touch-sensitive. Not a hammer action — one piano on this shelf publishes one and another publishes a graded one |
|---|---|
| Connectivity | Wireless MIDI and wireless audio, plus USB-MIDI output — the only wireless MIDI on this shelf |
| Sounds | 800 tones, 600 rhythms and 80 demo songs, with dual tone layering. The piano on this shelf with a hammer action publishes ten sounds and calls it a deliberate choice |
| Display | An LED display, with a metronome and chord modes |
| Included | A sustain pedal, a music stand and key stickers |
| What it is | With 600 rhythms and chord modes this is an arranger: it plays a backing band. The keyboards shelf on this site is where that kind of instrument normally sits |
| Polyphony | Vediya puts nothing in writing on this. No piano on this shelf publishes one |
| Weight | Vediya puts nothing in writing on this, and the product record holds no figure |
| Speakers | Vediya puts nothing in writing on this. |
| Manufacturer reference | VE203 |
| Amazon reference | B0G7YX95KL |
| EAN | 0754131194168 |
It is the difference between a keyboard and a piano, and the pages on this shelf say so repeatedly. A hammer action has a real mechanism with mass, so the key resists and returns like an acoustic one; semi-weighted adds a spring or a weight to a synth key, which is better than nothing and does not teach the same touch. Two pianos on this shelf publish a hammer action, one of them graded — heavier at the bass end. This publishes semi-weighted, which is honest and is the middle rung.
By its own specification it is an arranger with 88 keys. Eight hundred tones, 600 rhythms, chord modes — that is a machine for playing songs with a band behind you, and the keyboards shelf on this site is full of them. The piano on this shelf with the best action publishes ten sounds and its page calls the short list a deliberate choice. Both are valid instruments; they are not the same purchase, and the 88 semi-weighted keys here are what put this listing in the piano aisle.
Shown because the accessory names this instrument itself.
Details checked on October 7, 2026.
A beginner who wants 88 keys, a backing band and a pedal in one order, and has not yet decided whether they want a piano.
Specifications: the manufacturer sheet for musical instruments and gear and the matching Amazon product page. Prices and availability: Keepa. Every figure on this page names its source.
88 touch-sensitive keys · 480 sounds · full accessory bundle
Not a weighted piano and not sold as one: 88 full-size touch-sensitive keys, 480 sounds, and a bundle that includes the stand, pedal, headphones, bag and adapter. The most complete box in this group.
Best for: A first instrument for someone who is not yet sure they will keep playing.
≈ $190
88 weighted keys · 10 sounds · pedal and stand included
A slim 88-key board with Casio’s Scaled Hammer Action II and, unusually at this price, the SP-3 pedal, music rest and power adapter already in the box. Ten sounds rather than hundreds — the money went into the keys.
Best for: A first weighted piano where the pedal and adapter should not be a second order.
≈ $820
88 keys with touch response · 13 hours on batteries · 23.1 lb · stand and bench in the bundle
A bundle rather than an instrument alone: the CDP-S160 with a stand, a bench, a pedal, a music stand, an adapter and headphones — and the only piano here to publish a battery life and a weight.
Best for: A first piano that has to arrive complete, stand and bench included, and be carried occasionally.
