This directory points home piano learners to one Music Instruments store in each of seven countries. Each store lists the maker's facts on every product page, prices in your own currency and sends by tracked courier. Pick your country below and you are two clicks from the right keyboard or digital piano.
Updated October 2026Home Piano Lessons is a small directory, not a shop. We looked at how the Music Instruments stores in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, the United States and South Africa treat a beginner, and these are the seven stores we recommend. Each country page explains what that store offers a home learner and links straight to it.
musicinstruments.net.au prices in Australian dollars with GST included, and tracked delivery is free on orders over $150. Many Australian learners work towards AMEB grades. A digital piano needs no tuning through a hot inland summer or a humid northern wet season.
View the Australia guide →musicinstruments.co.nz prices in New Zealand dollars with GST included, and tracked delivery is free over $175. Damp winters in many New Zealand homes are no problem for a digital piano. Learners here sit ABRSM, Trinity or NZMEB exams.
View the New Zealand guide →musicinstrumentscompany.co.uk prices in pounds with VAT included, and tracked delivery is free over £100. In a terraced house or a flat, weighted keys and a headphone socket matter, and the product pages list both. ABRSM and Trinity Grades 1 to 8 are the usual path.
View the United Kingdom guide →musicinstruments.irish prices in euro with VAT included, and tracked delivery is free over €120. The EU 14-day right of withdrawal sits on top of the store's own returns policy. Irish learners often work towards RIAM local centre exams.
View the Ireland guide →musicinstruments.shop prices in Canadian dollars, and the price shown is the full price at checkout. Tracked delivery is free over $150. Dry winter indoor air is hard on acoustic instruments, one more reason learners on the RCM Certificate Program often start on a digital piano.
View the Canada guide →americanmusicinstruments.com prices in US dollars with no sales tax added, and tracked delivery is free over $150. There is no single national exam board in the United States, though the RCM Certificate Program is available. A digital piano with headphones suits apartment living.
View the United States guide →musicinstruments.co.za prices in rand, and the price shown is the full price at checkout. Tracked delivery is free over R750, and payment is by card only. During load shedding, a battery or USB-powered keyboard keeps practice going.
View the South Africa guide →Each product page lists what the maker says: key count or size, key and tuning, materials, power and connections, what is in the box, and weight. You compare two keyboards on facts, not on sales talk.
Each store prices in its own country's money. Where tax applies it is already in the price, and in Canada, the United States and South Africa the price shown is what you pay at checkout. No surprise at the last step.
Orders leave within 2 working days. Tracked courier delivery then takes up to 7 working days, a little longer to regional and remote addresses. Every store has a free-delivery threshold, shown on its country page here.
You have 14 days from delivery to return a product in resaleable condition with its packaging and accessories. Faulty goods are put right at no cost under the consumer law of your own country.
The same five piano choices sit in every store: the Kawai ES120 with 88 weighted keys, a foldable 88 key piano for small homes, a 61 key lighted keyboard, the Yamaha PSS-F30 on batteries, and a 37 key kids piano for ages 3 and up.
The same 43 products in every store cover drums, guitars, ukuleles, violins, recorders and more. A pianist can add a second instrument, and a sibling can start on something of their own, from one order.
For the first few months, 61 keys is plenty. Most beginner pieces sit in the middle of the keyboard, and a 61 key instrument covers five octaves. A 37 key keyboard works for a small child or a first try. If you already know you will keep going, start on 88 keys and you will never run out.
Pieces grow into the low bass and the high treble by the second or third year, and a 61 key keyboard runs out of notes. Weighted keys also teach you to control how loud or soft each note is. The Kawai ES120 has 88 weighted keys with hammer action for exactly that stage.
Weighted keys push back against your finger like the keys of an acoustic piano, because there is a hammer action behind them. Unweighted keys are light and springy. Unweighted is fine for learning notes and rhythm. Weighted is what you need for touch, dynamics and anything you might one day play on a real piano.
That is exactly what it is for. The OMZZ Ryuusei 88 foldable digital piano gives you the full 88 key range and folds in half when you are done. It suits a flat, a shared house or a bedroom with no room for a fixed stand. Check the product page for the maker's weight and what is in the box.
Children and absolute beginners. The Diodonica 61 key lighted beginner keyboard lights up the keys to guide you through a song, so you can play something that sounds like music in the first week. It takes the fear out of starting. Adults who have never read music like it for the same reason.
It is a good first keyboard for someone who wants something small and portable. It has 37 mini keys, 120 voices, 114 styles and a metronome, weighs about 1.2 kg, and runs on four AA batteries or USB. It can live on the kitchen table and go back in a drawer. A learner will outgrow it, but it is a low-risk way to find out if piano sticks.
The kids instruments in the stores are listed for ages 3 and up. The Tucraew 37 key kids piano keyboard comes with a microphone, a stool and a music stand, so a small child has a complete set-up at the right height. At that age the goal is play, not practice. Short sessions and lots of singing along work best.
On a digital piano or keyboard with a headphone socket, yes. Plug in and the room stays quiet while you hear every note. Check the power and connections line on the product page to see what sort of headphone socket a model has. It is the single best reason to choose digital over acoustic in a shared home.
Some do and some do not, so never assume. Every product page lists what is in the box as the maker ships it, and that is the line to read. If a stand or pedal is not listed, it is not included. The same page shows the connections, so you can see if a pedal can be plugged in later.
Short and often beats long and rare. Ten to fifteen minutes a day is a good start for a child, and twenty to thirty minutes a day for an adult. Daily contact with the keys matters more than the total hours. A metronome, built into keyboards like the Yamaha PSS-F30, keeps the practice honest.
When you start to feel the limits. You run out of keys at the top or bottom of a piece, you want a soft note and get the same volume every time, or your teacher starts talking about touch. For many home learners that comes in the second year. The Kawai ES120 is the step up every store carries.
Home Piano Lessons does not sell anything. We looked at how the Music Instruments stores treat a home learner, and we recommend one store for each of seven countries. Pick your country page, read about that store's departments, and follow the links to the real product pages.
Because a piano learner needs local prices, local delivery and local consumer law, and one store per country gives you all of them. You pay in your own currency with no surprise at checkout. Delivery is tracked. If anything goes wrong, the consumer law of your own country applies.
Every Music Instruments product page lists the details the maker publishes: size or key count, key and tuning, materials, power and connections, what is in the box, and weight. There is no sales talk in that list. It lets you compare two keyboards on the same facts and decide for yourself.
Within 2 working days of your order, at every store. A few instruments ship to the store from an overseas warehouse first, and those product pages say so before you buy. If timing matters, read the product page and allow for that extra step.
Tracked courier delivery takes up to 7 working days after dispatch, a little longer to regional and remote addresses. You get tracking, so you can see where the parcel is. Each store has its own free-delivery threshold, shown on the country pages here.
A few instruments are held in an overseas warehouse and travel to the store before they travel to you. The product page says so plainly, so you can choose a different model if you need it sooner. Most products do not have this extra step.
You have 14 days from delivery to return a product in resaleable condition with its packaging and accessories. If you have simply changed your mind, you pay the return postage. Keep the box for those first two weeks. It makes a return simple if you need one.
The store puts it right at no cost to you, under the consumer law of your country. That is separate from the 14-day change-of-mind window. Contact the store you bought from, through the details on its site, and describe the fault.
A pianist plays two hands with two different patterns, and the whole thing falls apart if the pulse wanders. Percussion builds a steady pulse in the body. A drum practice pad set, a cajon or a pair of bongos lets you work on rhythm away from the keyboard and bring it back stronger.
For small children, egg shakers and a tambourine teach a steady beat through play. The rainbow wooden xylophone is a tiny keyboard laid out in colours, so a child learns high and low notes by sight. Older children and adults can move to a drum practice pad set or a cajon box drum.
A soprano ukulele has four strings and simple chord shapes, so a child learns how chords are built by ear and by hand. That knowledge comes straight back to the piano. It is light, easy to carry and quick to tune, and the stores list a sapele soprano ukulele in the kids department.
Yes. A recorder teaches breath, phrasing and how to read a single line of music, all of which help a young pianist. It is small and very easy to carry to school. The Yamaha soprano recorder sits in each store's Wind and Brass department.
Music Instruments is a brand of Caruso Consulting Co Ltd, a Christian-led family business whose CEO, Renoo Caruso, preaches in Thailand. The Australian store trades through BuyFactory Direct Pty Ltd. The brand hub is musicinstruments.company.
Through the brand hub link. Go to https://www.trustpilot.com/evaluate/musicinstruments.company and write about the store you bought from. Honest reviews, good or bad, help the next home learner choose.
No. The Music Instruments stores sell instruments only. They do not sell lessons, sheet music or pro audio gear. Your teacher, your app or your lesson book is your own choice, and the store stays out of it.
No. A digital piano or keyboard holds its pitch in any weather, so it never needs a tuner. That matters in a damp winter or a dry heated room, where an acoustic piano drifts. It is one reason most home learners today start on digital.
A sustain pedal lets notes ring on after you lift your fingers, and most lesson books introduce it within the first year. Some products include one and some do not, so check the what-is-in-the-box line and the connections line on the product page. If there is a pedal socket, you can add one later.
No. Most people learn to read music at the keyboard, not before. A lighted 61 key keyboard helps by showing you which key to press while you learn the notes on the page. Start with the instrument and the reading follows.
Yes, and many do. The lighted keys show you where to put your fingers while you learn to read notes. Plan to move to 88 weighted keys once pieces grow past five octaves and your teacher asks for touch and dynamics. If you already know you will keep at it, start on the Kawai ES120 or the foldable 88 instead.
Most people who want to learn piano at home get stuck before they play a note. The shop pages all look the same, the key counts are confusing, and nobody tells you which one is right for a beginner in a spare room. This guide walks you through the choices in plain words. It applies to every country the directory covers, so when you are done, pick your country page and go straight to the store.
A full piano has 88 keys. A beginner does not need all of them on day one, and for the first few months most pieces sit in the middle of the keyboard. A 61 key keyboard covers five octaves, which is plenty for scales and for the songs in a first lesson book. A 37 key keyboard covers three octaves and suits a small child or a first try at the instrument.
So why does everyone end up talking about 88 keys? Because the music grows. By the second or third year, pieces reach into the low bass and the high treble. A player who learned on 61 keys hits the edge of the keyboard and has to work out where the missing notes would be. Starting on 88 keys avoids that, and the foldable 88 key piano means you can have the full range without the full footprint.
The bigger question is whether the keys are weighted. An acoustic piano has a hammer behind every key, and the key pushes back against your finger. Weighted keys on a digital piano copy that feel. Unweighted keys, sometimes called synth action, are light and springy. They are fine for learning notes and rhythm, and for a child whose fingers are still small. A player who wants to control how loud or soft a note is, and who may one day sit an exam or play a real piano, needs weighted keys. The Kawai ES120 has 88 weighted keys with hammer action, which is why it sits at the top of every store's piano range.
Every Music Instruments store carries the same five piano options, and each one answers a different need. The Yamaha PSS-F30 is the smallest. It has 37 mini keys, 120 voices, 114 styles and a built-in metronome, runs on four AA batteries or USB, and weighs about 1.2 kg. It is a first keyboard that can sit on the kitchen table and go back in a drawer when dinner is served.
The Tucraew 37 key kids piano is made for children aged 3 and up. It comes with a microphone, a stool and a music stand, so a small child has a complete little set-up at the right height. The Diodonica 61 key lighted beginner keyboard lights up the keys to guide a first player through a song. That takes the fear out of the first week for a child, or for an adult who has never read a note of music.
The OMZZ Ryuusei foldable 88 key digital piano folds in half. It gives a full 88 key range to someone in a flat, a shared house or a bedroom with no room for a stand. And the Kawai ES120 88 key digital piano is the serious choice: 88 weighted keys with hammer action, for a learner who intends to stick with lessons for years.
Which one is right depends on who is playing and how much room you have. A child under six: the kids piano. A child or an adult who wants help finding the notes: the 61 key lighted keyboard. Anyone short on space who still wants the full range: the foldable 88. Anyone who is sure they will keep going, or who already has a teacher: the Kawai ES120.
A piano learner needs a steady surface at the right height and a comfortable seat. That is where stands and stools come in. Some products in the range include a stand or a stool and some do not, so read the what-is-in-the-box line on each product page before you order. It lists exactly what the maker ships, and nothing more.
The same goes for a sustain pedal. A sustain pedal lets notes ring on after you lift your fingers, and most lesson books introduce it in the first year. Check the box listing and the power and connections line to see if a pedal is included and whether there is a socket for one. Do not assume. The product page tells you.
Headphones are the quiet hero of home practice. Plug in and you can run scales at eleven at night without a word from the neighbours or a sleeping toddler. Look at the connections line on the product page to see what sort of headphone socket, if any, a keyboard has. A digital piano also never needs tuning, which matters in a damp winter or a dry heated room where an acoustic piano would drift out of pitch.
Short and often beats long and rare. For a child, ten to fifteen minutes a day is a good start. For an adult, twenty to thirty minutes a day does more than two hours on a Sunday. The point is to touch the keys every day so the hands remember what the head learned. A metronome, built into keyboards like the Yamaha PSS-F30, keeps that daily practice honest.
At some point a keyboard learner starts to feel the limits. You run out of keys at the top or bottom of a piece. You want a note to be soft and the keyboard gives you the same volume every time. Your teacher mentions dynamics and touch. These are the signs that it is time to move from an unweighted keyboard to a weighted digital piano. For many home learners that moment comes somewhere in the second year, and the Kawai ES120 is the step up the stores carry.
If you are an adult who has decided to learn and you know you will keep at it, there is a case for skipping the keyboard stage and starting on weighted keys. You learn touch from the first lesson instead of relearning it later. If space is the problem, the foldable 88 key piano solves it without giving up the full range.
Piano teachers spend a lot of time on rhythm, and for good reason. A pianist plays two hands at once, each with its own pattern, and the whole thing falls apart if the pulse wanders. Percussion builds that pulse in the body. Shaking an egg shaker on the beat or tapping a tambourine along to a song teaches a child to feel a steady count long before they read a time signature.
That is why every store carries a Drums and Percussion department alongside the pianos. A drum practice pad set with sticks, a cajon box drum you sit on, a pair of bongos or a djembe lets a learner work on rhythm away from the keyboard. The kids section has egg shakers, a tambourine and a rainbow xylophone, which is itself a tiny keyboard laid out in colours.
A second instrument helps in other ways too. A soprano ukulele for kids has four strings and simple chords, so a child learns how chords work by ear and brings that back to the piano. A recorder, like the Yamaha soprano recorder in the Wind and Brass department, teaches breath, phrasing and reading a single line of music. Neither one replaces piano practice. Both make it easier.
Home Piano Lessons does not sell anything. It is a directory. We looked at how the Music Instruments stores treat a home learner, and we recommend one store for each of seven countries: Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, the United States and South Africa. Each country page describes that store's departments and links to the real product pages.
We chose these stores for a few plain reasons. Every product page lists the maker's own details: size or key count, key and tuning, materials, power and connections, what is in the box, and weight. Prices are in your own currency and the price shown is what you pay. Orders are dispatched within 2 working days, and tracked courier delivery then takes up to 7 working days, a little longer to regional and remote addresses. A few instruments ship to the store from an overseas warehouse first, and those product pages say so.
Returns are simple. You have 14 days from delivery to return a product in resaleable condition with its packaging and accessories, and you pay the return postage if you have changed your mind. If something arrives faulty, the store puts it right at no cost under the consumer law of your country. The stores sell instruments only, not lessons or sheet music, so your teacher or your lesson book stays your own choice.
Music Instruments is a brand of Caruso Consulting Co Ltd, a Christian-led family business whose CEO, Renoo Caruso, preaches in Thailand. The brand hub is musicinstruments.company, and if a store has served you well, the hub carries a Trustpilot link where you can say so. Pick your country below, and happy practising.