Yamaha CLP-745 B

I'm still at the early stage of my piano journey, coming late to party in my retirement years! Having outgrown my 'beginners' Korg B2 (a great starter piano) I researched my options and the Yamaha CLP-745 ('B'lack) ticked all the boxes in terms of features, piano keyboard 'feel' and price. The service from Thomann has been excellent; I used the online chat facility to get pre-sales advice. Delivery to the UK was about one week, note that I did not get a phone call to agree a day and so it was fortunate that I was in on the day that I received a message stating it would be delivered that morning.
My only disappointment is the sound from the built-in speakers, it does not do the piano justice and there is a huge difference to the superb sound when using headphones. I've subsequently discovered that this poor sound is common across many electronic pianos, the advice being to purchase 'near-field active monitors' if you don't want to realy on headphone use.

We'd done our homework to the highest standard before choosing this particular piano – watched numerous video tutorials and sample plays, read many reviews and went over few dozen of forums.
Two of our younger kids started piano classes last year using older digital keyboard (Casio LK-270, also bought from THOMANN back in 2009) which is still ok to use but we decided to upgrade it to a more descent one and after approx. six month of research we had to choose between 3 YAMAHA's: CLP-735/745/775.
All three are great and probably best on the market. And it was difficult for us to choose which one would suit best, so ended up with middle option.
We have instrument less than a week but even at this stage we believe that choice was right. Out teacher also impressed with the sound quality and all functions that come with it.
Recommended to all – you won’t be disappointed.
Thank you THOMANN team.