My Uncle Gus gave me a
Yamaha YPT-300 keyboard for Christmas. He bought it for my late Aunt Judy. It has 1 broken key (low C) and was missing the sheet music rest. He also gave me a keyboard stand that was missing a screw at the bottom.
Otherwise is a pretty cool keyboard with a bunch of features: MIDI controls, built in speakers, 32 voice polyphony, ability to connect a sustain pedal, and at least 128 voices and beats, plus 4 built-in drumkits. Sound is definitely not bad. My bro and nephew and I had a lot of fun jamming on Christmas Eve.
Found and ordered the
sheet music rest today ($25 including shipping on Full Compass) and also spent
$25 for a replacement key set from Keyboard Kountry ($25 including shipping) .
So I will need to replace the low C key. Found some good YouTube videos on how to do this:
Video 1:
https://youtu.be/q_oUbYPFTqk
Video 2:
https://youtu.be/_uToVbDDVC0
There's a bit of yellowing on the keys, so I'm considering doing some
Retrobrite peroxide treatment on them, we'll see how it goes.
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Ed Note 2024-01-19: I was able to complete the key replacement repair in September 2020, using the above videos for reference. It went pretty well, no major gotchas, and I took my own videos of the process. The key alignment was a tiny bit off, but not enough so to warrant additional replacement. Wasn't too hard to do. Never did the Retrobrite treatment although I'm sure it would help.