As far as piano goes a keyboard can be a great friend
Yamaha PSR E333 61-Key Mid-Level Portable Keyboard | Musician's Friend
The PSR-E333 features a touch sensitive keyboard. It has 497 dynamic, high quality, natural sounding voices, 106 accompaniment styles and 102 built-in songs. Music database provides one touch set-up of the keyboard, to play the selected songs. The Easy Recording feature lets you record up to five of your original songs. You can save them into the onboard memory: great for practicing and composing.