The Yamaha YPT-280 is a versatile, portable keyboard designed for beginners. With high-quality sounds, built-in lessons, and intuitive features, it’s perfect for learning, practicing, and creating music anywhere, anytime.

• Extensive sound library. 410 high-quality voices and 150 auto-accompaniment styles.
• Built-in songs. 122 songs with an easy downloadable songbook for practice and play.
• Step-by-step learning. The 3-step lesson function helps you improve at your own pace.
• One-touch harmony. Smart Chord lets you play full chords with a single finger.
• Fun learning. Quiz mode makes ear training engaging and interactive.
• Play together. Duo mode splits the keyboard for two players at once.
• Capture your music. Built-in recording function to save and review your performance.
• External audio input. The AUX IN jack lets you connect and play along with other audio.
• Clear, powerful sound. Dual 12cm stereo speakers with 2.5W + 2.5W output.
• Portable performance. Runs on six AA batteries for music anywhere.

Fun for every play

Alongside its rich piano tones, this keyboard features a wide range of realistic instrument voices—from guitars and bass to percussion, drums, and fun sound effects like barking dogs and meowing cats. Choose your favorite sounds for practice or performance and experience the expressive power of Yamaha’s built-in grand piano voice.

Makes practicing fun

This keyboard offers fun sound-guessing quizzes to sharpen your ear, along with built-in songs and lesson features to support your learning at any level. It even includes a performance grading function to help you track progress and improve your skills—all while having fun!

Play with a backing band

The keyboard features a Smart Chord function that lets you play full, harmonious chords with a single finger. Its Style function adds automatic rhythm and bass accompaniment, triggered by just the root note. Even when playing solo, you’ll feel like you’re performing with a full band!