Features include 88 keys, Disk drive, Pedal & contemporary stand. Simply put, it's a piano at a Portable Keyboard price. Other features include touch-sensitive keys, General MIDI compatibility, and Yamaha's impressive YES II, a wonderful set of music training functions, which makes learning music incredibly easy.

This keyboard is packed with functions and features designed specifically for the new piano user. Included with the DGX500 is a furniture-type stand that completes its piano image.

3.5" Floppy Disk Drive
The DGX500 has a 3.5" disk drive allowing it to communicate with the world. You can download a song file from the literally thousands of songs on the Internet onto a 3.5" disk in your computer, then take the same disk, insert it into the instrument and play the song.

Yamaha Education Suite
The DGX500 comes with 100 built-in songs with Songbook. But if you've never played before, where do you start? Well, if learning to play music is important to you, the Yamaha Education Suite II, a wonderful set of music training functions, makes learning music incredibly easy. Seven types of lessons are available as well as a convenient chord dictionary.

Three keyboard lessons for each hand
Timing mode: You can play the melody or chord by pressing any key using the correct timing.
Waiting mode: Playback pauses until you find and play the correct chord or melody note.
Minus One mode: Mute the left-hand, right-hand, or both parts of a song and play along nonstop.

Lesson Grading… read more - monitors your progress as you practice each lesson.

Chord Dictionary - shows you how to play chords and tells you which chords you are playing by displaying the notes and chord name on the LCD screen. read less