advice on buying a keyboard

[Erica H 007]

Hello everyone,

I've played piano since...umm pretty much forever and I played up into college and everything. Now that I'm done with college I live in an apartment and I seem to be going through piano-playing withdrawl. I don't want a piano in the small apartment because I don't want to upset neighbors, so I was thinking of getting a keyboard. Thing is, I really have no idea what kind to get. I do know that I would *like* to have these requirements:

1) At least 63 keys
2) A headphone jack so I can play as loud as I want
3) A stand

It shouldn't be too difficult to get one since I don't want much in it, but I want to save enough money as possible and still have the quality.

Any suggestions?

[Ned]

I've yet to find an electronic keyboard instrument or keyboard controller that feels anything like a real piano keyboard. The closest so far is my Motif8, which takes up just as much space as an upright would.

Since headphones can damage your ears at much lower sound pressure levels than conventional speakers, I'm fairly dubious about this "as loud as I want" phrase. Headphones should be used at low levels only.

I'm thinking tentatively of getting a Hamilton Baldwin, which is a soft piano to begin with, putting pillows underneath the lid, and draping a quilt over the piano.

[Erica H 007]

I didn't mean that I could listen at such a high decibel that I would go deaf, I just meant so that my boyfriend in the next room or my neighbors on the next wall couldn't hear anything and I could play as I pleased

I also don't think I could afford an entire piano, nor a huge keyboard, so I guess it's back to the drawing board.