Digital Pianos have always been popular with piano students, families, professional musicians, studios, piano teachers, and others for many years as a great way to enjoy piano playing as the newer models have really gotten much better in realism and quality. Some of them are truly amazing. Now due to Covid-19 and the extreme restrictions our country has had on traveling and life in general, people have become more isolated than ever before and have been looking for something good do do in their homes other than playing on their iPads, computers, or watching more endless TV or videos. With that in mind, digital pianos have become been more popular over the last 6 months than ever before. In fact the digital piano manufactures cannot keep up with worldwide demand and in the US some newer digital piano models are backordered up to 2 months or more until factories can catch up with the demand and we are not sure that will happen anytime soon.
People in the music industry that are "in the know" are already talking about it and are worried. On-line sales have risen dramatically for all kinds of consumer products because we are all indoors more and are looking for more and better things to do, for us and our children. With a huge surge of on-line shopping and demand now and for this upcoming season for products that have to do with your "home" in some way such as entertainment and household goods like TV's, furniture, bicycles, construction materials, appliances, digital pianos, etc, you will likely not be able to get what you want or when you want it. Black Friday, Super Monday, whatever sales come up, don't expect to get what you want when you want it or even get it at all. Waiting for a "lower price?" The real question is "will you be able to get one at all at any price?" That's what the suppliers and manufacturers are worried about and then that trickles down to the consumer.
