You have found a teacher or a course, and now you need something to practise on. This page sends you to the Canadian Music Instruments store, musicinstruments.shop, and shows which of its departments fit a home piano learner.
Updated October 2026Music Instruments runs one store per country, and the Canadian one is musicinstruments.shop (the .shop address is Canada, not a generic site). Below are its seven departments, ranked for someone learning piano at home, from the first keyboard to the second instrument that will make you a better pianist. We recommend this store because every product page carries the maker's facts, prices are in Canadian dollars, delivery is tracked across Canada, and you get 14-day returns, with faults put right under the consumer protection law of your province or territory.
This is where a serious home piano learner in Canada starts. The Kawai ES120 88-Key Digital Piano gives you 88 weighted keys with hammer action, so your fingers build the strength that RCM pieces ask for, and it never needs tuning through a dry Canadian winter.
The Yamaha PSS-F30 37-Key Portable Keyboard is the small option: mini keys, 120 voices, a metronome, and it runs on four AA batteries or USB. Both are priced in Canadian dollars, and the price you see is the full price at checkout. Orders over $150 get free tracked delivery anywhere in Canada; under that it is $20.
Beginner Packs is the department for a first keyboard that will not take over the apartment. The OMZZ Ryuusei 88 Foldable 88 Key Digital Piano Beginner Set folds in half, so it slides into a closet in a Montreal walk-up or a Vancouver studio. The Diodonica 61-Key Lighted Beginner Keyboard Piano lights the keys to guide a first player through a tune.
The same department holds the OMZZ 41-Inch Acoustic Guitar Starter Bundle, the Bullfighter 4-String Electric Bass Guitar Starter Set and a Drum Practice Pad Set with stand, sticks and carry bag, for the day a pianist wants a second instrument. Everything is in Canadian dollars with free tracked delivery over $150, or $20 below that, to any Canadian address.
Kids Instruments covers ages 3 and up, and the Tucraew 37-Key Kids Piano Keyboard with microphone, stool and music stand is the one for a Canadian child who wants to copy a parent's practice. It is a real keyboard at a child's height, not a toy that plays itself.
Around it sit the rhythm makers: the Egg Shakers 14 Piece Rainbow Set, the Kids Tambourine 6 Inch Birch Hand Drum, the Stoie 8-Note Rainbow Wooden Kids Xylophone and the Pyle 3-Piece Kids Drum Kit. Prices are in Canadian dollars with free tracked delivery over $150 ($20 under), so a few small items for a birthday in Montreal ship with no fuss.
Rhythm is the part of piano most home learners skip, and this department fixes that. The Drum Practice Pad Set lives in Beginner Packs, but here you find the Meinl Jam Cajon Box Drum with snares, the EASTROCK Tunable Wood Bongo Drum Set and the Hand-Painted Mahogany Djembe Drum for keeping a pulse with your hands.
Two items here are almost pianos. The Moozica 21-Key Solid Koa Kalimba is a thumb piano, and the EASTROCK 27-Note Glockenspiel lays its bars out like a keyboard. The Donner DED-80 Electronic Drum Kit has mesh heads, which keep the noise down in a Canadian townhouse. All in Canadian dollars, free tracked delivery over $150, otherwise $20.
Many home pianists in Canada add a guitar once their chords make sense, because a chord on six strings teaches you to hear what your left hand plays. The Fender California Debut Redondo Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar is the full size choice, and the Yamaha CGS102AII 1/2 Size Classical Guitar suits a smaller player or a child.
The department also carries the Squier Sonic Stratocaster HT Electric Guitar and a Precision Style Electric Bass Guitar. One Canadian note: these are wooden instruments, and dry heated indoor air from November to March shrinks wood, so keep a guitar in its bag between sessions. Prices in Canadian dollars; free tracked delivery over $150, $20 under.
String Instruments is the department for a pianist who wants to hear melody another way. The Hricane Concert Ukulele 23 Inch Mahogany Starter Pack is the easiest first step, and the DIGERVY 4/4 Full Size Violin Kit with case, bow and rosin suits an adult learner who already reads music.
The AKLOT 16 String Mahogany Lyre Harp, the Gold Tone AC-1 5 String Open Back Banjo and the A-Style 8-String Mandolin round it out. Each is wood, so the same Canadian winter advice applies: case it between sessions and tune before you play. Canadian dollars at checkout, free tracked delivery over $150, otherwise $20, from Ottawa to the territories.
Wind and Brass holds the instrument every pianist should try once: the EASTROCK 32-Key Melodica Set. It has piano keys you blow through, so your hands already know it and your breath learns to shape a phrase. The East Top T10-4 10 Hole Blues Harmonica in the key of C is the pocket option for a bus ride across Toronto.
For a Canadian school band season there is the Yamaha YRS-24B Soprano Recorder, the GLORY Closed Hole C Flute, the GLORY Eb Alto Saxophone with hard case, a Bb Trumpet and a 17-Key Bb Clarinet. A few of these ship to the store from an overseas warehouse first, and the product page says so. Canadian dollars, free tracked delivery over $150, $20 under.
If you plan to stay with it, the Kawai ES120 88-Key Digital Piano from musicinstruments.shop gives you 88 weighted keys with hammer action, the same feel as an acoustic piano. If you want to test the water, the Diodonica 61-Key Lighted Beginner Keyboard Piano or the Yamaha PSS-F30 is the smaller first step. Either way you pay in Canadian dollars, and the price shown is the full price at checkout.
Not for the earliest pieces, which sit in the middle of the keyboard. But the RCM Certificate Program runs from Preparatory to Level 10 and ARCT, and the music spreads across the keyboard as you go. An 88 key instrument such as the Kawai ES120 or the OMZZ Ryuusei foldable means you never outgrow it mid-level.
Both have 88 keys. The Kawai ES120 has weighted keys with hammer action, which is what you want for RCM work and for building finger strength. The OMZZ Ryuusei 88 folds in half for a small Canadian apartment and is the lighter, simpler option for a first year. Read the maker's key action detail on each product page before you choose.
Yes, a digital piano is the answer here. With headphones on, the only sound in the building is the tap of the keys. The product page for each keyboard at musicinstruments.shop lists its connections, so you can confirm the headphone output before you order.
Usually, if you choose the right one. The Kawai ES120 is a portable digital piano, not a cabinet, so it sits on a stand or a sturdy table, and the product page gives its size and weight so you can measure first. If even that is too much, the OMZZ Ryuusei 88 Foldable folds in half and lives in a closet between lessons.
It can hurt an acoustic one. Furnaces and baseboard heaters dry the indoor air from November to March, and dry air shrinks wood, which pulls an acoustic instrument out of tune. A digital piano like the Kawai ES120 has no soundboard and no strings, so a Calgary cold snap changes nothing about how it plays.
No. A humidifier matters for acoustic pianos and wooden guitars, because their wood moves as indoor humidity drops in a Canadian winter. A digital piano has no soundboard or strings to move. Keep it away from a heat vent and it is fine.
Wood. The Fender California Debut Redondo and the Yamaha CGS102AII are acoustic guitars, and the dry winter air in a heated Canadian home shrinks the wood a little. Keep the guitar in its bag or case when you are not playing, away from heat vents, and check the tuning before each practice.
The store dispatches within 2 working days, and tracked courier delivery then takes up to 7 working days to a city address. Northern and remote addresses in Canada take a little longer than that. Your order is tracked, so you can watch the parcel move.
Orders over $150 Canadian get free tracked delivery to any Canadian address, whether that is downtown Ottawa or a farm on the Prairies. Under $150 the delivery fee is $20. Remote addresses can take a few extra days, but the price rule is the same.
Yes. Every order is sent by tracked courier, and rural and remote addresses in Canada are served, they just take a little longer than the 7 working days a city address usually sees. Give your full civic address and postal code so the driver has no doubt.
Dispatch is within 2 working days and tracked delivery takes up to 7 working days to a city address such as Montreal, so allow about two weeks to be safe. Couriers get busy in December across Canada, so order earlier rather than later. A few instruments ship to the store from an overseas warehouse first, and their product pages say so, which adds time.
Yes. Every price is in Canadian dollars, and the price shown is the full price you pay at checkout. You are not guessing at an exchange rate from another country's store.
Yes. musicinstruments.shop takes PayPal, and card payment too. Pick whichever you prefer at checkout; the price in Canadian dollars is the same either way.
The price shown is the full price at checkout. What you see on the product page is what you pay, plus the $20 delivery fee if your order is under $150. There is no extra line that appears at the last step.
Faulty goods are put right at no cost to you under the consumer protection law of your province or territory. Contact the store with your order number and describe the fault. Keep the packaging until the matter is settled.
Yes, within 14 days of delivery, as long as it is in resaleable condition with its packaging and accessories. You pay the return postage for a change of mind. Keep the box for two weeks so this stays easy.
The store cites the consumer protection law of your province or territory, so an Ontario buyer is covered by Ontario's rules and a Quebec buyer by Quebec's. On top of that, the store gives 14-day returns on every order. Faults are fixed at no cost to you.
The Tucraew 37-Key Kids Piano Keyboard with microphone, stool and music stand, from the Kids Instruments department at musicinstruments.shop (ages 3 and up). Add the Egg Shakers 14 Piece Rainbow Set so they can keep time while you play. Both ship tracked to any Canadian address.
Yes. The RCM Certificate Program starts at the Preparatory level, and a child who has spent a year on a Tucraew 37-Key Kids Piano Keyboard already knows which way the notes go up. When lessons start, move up to the Diodonica 61-Key Lighted keyboard or an 88 key instrument.
The Egg Shakers 14 Piece Rainbow Set, the Kids Tambourine 6 Inch Birch Hand Drum and the Stoie 8-Note Rainbow Wooden Kids Xylophone. For a louder child there is the Pyle 3-Piece Kids Drum Kit with cymbal, pedal, throne and sticks. All are in the Kids Instruments department at musicinstruments.shop, priced in Canadian dollars.
ARCT sits above Level 10 at the top of the RCM Certificate Program. The store sells instruments, not lessons, so it cannot get you there, but the Kawai ES120 with 88 weighted keys and hammer action is the instrument to practise on at that level. Its product page lists the maker's details on key action and connections.
The closer your keys feel to an acoustic, the smaller the jump. That is why the Kawai ES120's 88 weighted keys with hammer action matter more than its sounds. Ask your teacher where you will sit the exam, and try to get some time on an acoustic piano before the day.
Yes. musicinstruments.shop is the Canada store: prices in Canadian dollars, delivery to Canadian addresses, and the consumer protection law of your province or territory. The other countries have their own addresses, such as musicinstruments.net.au for Australia and americanmusicinstruments.com for the United States.
No. The store sells instruments only, with no lessons, sheet music or pro audio gear. Find your teacher or online course first, then use this directory to buy what you practise on.
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The Moozica 21-Key Solid Koa Kalimba, a thumb piano, and the EASTROCK 32-Key Melodica, which has piano keys you blow through. Both use a layout your hands already understand. The EASTROCK 27-Note Glockenspiel does the same with bars laid out like a keyboard. All are at musicinstruments.shop in Canadian dollars.
Rhythm. A steady pulse is the thing most home pianists lack, and ten minutes on a Meinl Jam Cajon Box Drum or a Drum Practice Pad Set fixes it faster than counting out loud. The Donner DED-80 Electronic Drum Kit has mesh heads, which keep the noise down in a Canadian townhouse.
For first tunes, yes. It has 37 mini keys, 120 voices, 114 styles and a metronome, runs on four AA batteries or USB, and weighs about 1.2 kg, so it goes to the cottage or a grandparent's house in another province. You will outgrow it, but it stays useful as a travel keyboard.
A few instruments ship to the store from an overseas warehouse first, and the product page says so plainly. Add time to the usual 2 working days dispatch and up to 7 working days tracked delivery. Everything else leaves within 2 working days for any Canadian address.
You have decided to learn piano at home in Canada. Maybe a teacher comes to the house once a week, maybe you follow an online course after the kids are in bed, maybe you are an adult coming back to the instrument after thirty years. Whatever the route, there is one thing nobody can do for you: you need something to practise on, and it needs to be in your home.
This guide walks through what matters when you buy that instrument in Canada. Not what matters in general, but what matters here: the RCM Certificate Program that runs from Preparatory to Level 10 and ARCT, the dry air of a heated Canadian winter, the condo towers of Toronto and Vancouver, the long road to a northern or rural address, and the rules that protect you when you buy. By the end you will know which department of musicinstruments.shop, the Canadian Music Instruments store, to open first.
The Royal Conservatory of Music Certificate Program runs from Preparatory through Level 10 and on to ARCT. If your teacher works to it, your pieces, studies, scales and sight reading are set level by level, and each level asks a little more of your hands.
In the Preparatory levels you can get by on a smaller keyboard. The notes sit in the middle, the rhythms are simple, and a Diodonica 61-Key Lighted Beginner Keyboard Piano, which lights the keys to show a first player where to go, is a friendly place to begin. The Yamaha PSS-F30 37-Key Portable Keyboard is smaller again, with mini keys, 120 voices and a metronome, and it runs on four AA batteries or USB.
As you climb the levels the pieces start to use the whole keyboard, and the scales want even weight from every finger. That is where key action matters. The Kawai ES120 88-Key Digital Piano has 88 weighted keys with hammer action, which means the key pushes back the way an acoustic piano key does. Your fingers build strength on it, and when you sit down at an acoustic piano for a lesson or an exam your hands are not surprised.
If you are serious about going up the levels, buy the 88 weighted keys first and skip the upgrade later. If you are not sure yet, start small, but know that the smaller keyboard has a shelf life, and plan for the day you trade up.
Here is the thing about a heated Canadian home in January. The furnace runs, the windows stay shut, and the indoor air gets very dry. Wood does not like that. An acoustic piano is a wooden instrument holding strings under tension, and as the wood shrinks in dry air the tuning drifts and the action can change feel. The same is true in Calgary, Ottawa or a farmhouse on the Prairies, anywhere the heating runs for five months of the year.
A digital piano has no soundboard and no strings. The Kawai ES120 plays the same on the coldest night of February as it did in July, and you never book a tuner. For a home learner that is money saved and one less thing to think about. The weighted hammer action keys still give you the feel, without the wood that moves.
Keep it sensible. Do not park any instrument on top of a heat vent or against a baseboard heater, and let a parcel that has been sitting in a cold courier van come up to room temperature before you plug it in. Beyond that, a digital piano in Canada looks after itself.
The wood warning does apply to a second instrument. If you add an acoustic guitar such as the Fender California Debut Redondo or the Yamaha CGS102AII 1/2 Size Classical Guitar, keep it in its bag between sessions through the winter, and expect to tune it more often than you do in summer.
A lot of Canadian piano practice happens in a condo in Toronto or Vancouver, a Montreal walk-up, or a townhouse in Calgary with a shared wall. Space is tight and neighbours are close. A digital piano solves both problems.
On space, the Kawai ES120 is a portable digital piano, not a cabinet. It goes on a stand or a sturdy table, and the product page gives its exact size and weight so you can measure before you order. If even that is too much, the OMZZ Ryuusei 88 Foldable 88 Key Digital Piano Beginner Set folds in half, so it can live in a closet and come out for practice. It is also the one to choose if you are moving between cities this year or heading off to study.
On noise, use headphones. The product page for each keyboard lists its connections, so check for the headphone output you need, then practise scales at eleven at night without a knock on the door. Lighter instruments help too. The Yamaha PSS-F30 weighs about 1.2 kg and runs on batteries, so it goes to the kitchen table, the balcony or the cottage.
Canada is big, and delivery works a little differently depending on where you live. The store dispatches within 2 working days. Tracked courier delivery then takes up to 7 working days to a city address such as Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary or Ottawa. Rural addresses on the Prairies, in Atlantic Canada and across the North take a little longer, so allow extra time before a first lesson.
Delivery is free and tracked on any order over $150, and the rule is the same for a downtown condo and a farm at the end of a gravel road. Under $150 the delivery fee is $20. An 88 key piano is a long parcel, so make sure someone can be home or the courier has a safe place to leave it, and give your full civic address and postal code so there is no guesswork.
A few instruments ship to the store from an overseas warehouse before they come to you, and the product page says so plainly when that is the case. If you see that note, add time. Everything else leaves within 2 working days.
Every price at musicinstruments.shop is in Canadian dollars, and the price shown is the full price at checkout. There is no currency conversion to guess at and nothing added at the last step. You can pay by card or PayPal.
The .shop address throws some people, so to be clear: musicinstruments.shop is the Canadian store. Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the United States and South Africa each have their own store with their own currency, and this one is Canada's.
Your protection comes in two layers. First, the store gives you 14 days from delivery to return a product in resaleable condition with its packaging and accessories, and you pay the return postage if it is a change of mind. Second, if something arrives faulty, it is put right at no cost under the consumer protection law of your province or territory. Keep the box for two weeks, and keep your order confirmation.
One more reason we point Canadian learners to this store: every product page carries the maker's details, which means key count, key action, materials, power and connections, what is in the box, and weight. You can compare the Kawai ES120 and the foldable 88 key on facts, not on marketing.
Once your piano practice is steady, a second instrument is not a distraction. Rhythm is the first gift. A Drum Practice Pad Set with stand and sticks, or the Meinl Jam Cajon Box Drum, teaches your hands to keep a pulse, and that pulse comes straight back to your scales. The Donner DED-80 Electronic Drum Kit has mesh heads, which keep the noise down in a Canadian townhouse.
Melody is the second gift. The Moozica 21-Key Solid Koa Kalimba is a thumb piano, so the layout of notes already makes sense to you. The EASTROCK 32-Key Melodica has piano keys you blow through, which makes it a fun way to work on phrasing and breath. The EASTROCK 27-Note Glockenspiel lays its bars out like a keyboard, and the whole family can play it.
For children, the Kids Instruments department covers ages 3 and up. The Tucraew 37-Key Kids Piano Keyboard comes with a microphone, stool and music stand, and the Egg Shakers or the Kids Tambourine get a small child clapping in time long before the first RCM Preparatory piece.
Pick the department that matches where you are. Serious lessons: Keyboards and Pianos and the Kawai ES120. Small home or first year: Beginner Packs and the foldable 88 key or the 61 key lighted keyboard. A child: Kids Instruments. Then order in Canadian dollars, have it tracked to your door, and start practising. The store does not teach, and neither do we; your teacher does that. We just want you playing on the right instrument, bought from the Canadian store.