As the title says - getting the required angle to use the music rest means the piano has to be several inches away from the wall. I have a toddler running around, and need to manage cables and other hazards. And besides, having the piano pushed up to the wall just looks neater. Anybody have any suggestions for an alternative music rest or other solution?

hello again~

right as I was about to get a $250 weighted piano on Amazon, I found out somewhere else that someone is selling a Kawai ES110 for $550.

Is it worth it? I've been practicing the piano for 7 months but still don't have one myself. Not planning to do much apart from practicing it and playing it for fun, but I've been advised to get a weighted keys one. In the long run I do have in mind getting a proper one, though.

So, I wanted to get rid of my wobbly X stand and buy a proper one for the Kawai ES110. I looked one up and it was priced at 99€ for the original HML 1 stand from Kawai.

I then decided to build one.

The wood was only 9€ at "Bauhaus". The side panels are 19mm thick MDF and the middle bar is 16mm MDF.

The measurements are the following:

2 times 665mm*290mm

1 time 1274mm*200mm

I then bought a paint roller for 1,99€ and white paint for 8€. It is glued together at the edges of the long mid-bar with normal wood glue. I freaking love how it looks and how easy it is to build! Oh and it has felt feet.

Here is a picture!

https://preview.redd.it/yfv5hp07hif41.jpg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4d69cd865412a15384ce58d78724e8eee4110dca

I would like to know your current opinion on which keyboard would be a better choice for a complete beginner. All threads that I can find, that compare these two models are a few years old.

Both are available to me in Europe at a nearly identical price.

While the Kawai ES110 is the older model, the good about it is that it comes included with a quality pedal, much higher polyphony (192 compared to Rolands 96), and has great piano sound, but I have found reviews, where many complain about bad build quality and loud action. Also, the main way to connect to a PC is through Bluetooth MIDI, but to connect it with a cable, one needs to buy an additional USB to MIDI cable.

Roland FP-10 (which is still available to me in Europe) comes with a very basic ON/OFF pedal, that will need to be upgraded down the line, and has, what is described as the best action at this price point with PHA-4 Standard, and can be connected to a PC easily with a USB cable. But there are many complaints online over Roland clicky keys (which seem to appear everywhere where PHA-4 is used) and very heavy action.

The sound quality of both can be heard in this comparison from Merriam Music (the tested Roland is FP-30, the older model, before the release of FP-30X, and quite similar to the FP-10):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO8eUinFl3o

I can not test either, as they will be ordered online. I would like to ask for help deciding. If anybody has any experience with either of these two digital pianos, which would be a better buy in 2022?

I am wanting to upgrade to a better digital piano. The es-110 and es-120 both seem like incredible options. I currently have a Donner DEP-20 and while it is good for the price, the actions feels cluncky and not very responsive. I am wondering which piano would be a better option. I also have a triple pedal stand for the Donner and am curious as to if it would work with the es-110 or es-120.

So the Kawai ES120 launched a few months ago and slowly there are more reviews coming online.

My question - Does anyone else think the ES120 sounds way worse and more artificial than the 5 year old ES110? Is it just my ears ?! I would have thought Kawai would use exactly the same samples but just add a few more new piano options to the ES120 but it seems they’ve completely changed the new piano samples and they’re all really really bright almost artificial sounding. There are no music stores anywhere near where I live let alone having kawai in stock so I can’t test out the real thing for myself!

Hi everyone,

I've had my piano for several years now and I'm overall very happy with it. However, it now suddenly has befome unplayable.

The issue is very simple: all of the A, C# and F keys are now way louder than the rest, sounding also at a fixed volume. The rest of the keys still work perfectly.

I've seen some posts where people suggest that the problem is the contact under the key, but considering that the issue happens in ALL octaves, I doubt this is the case.

Anyone has experienced this before? Should I try opening it and cleaning the connections?

Thank you very much in advance,

Toni

Hi, I'm a cheap guy and looking for a reliable digital piano. I don't care much about the best sounding or best piano feel in the price range but my main concern is reliability and durability. In my third world country, returns is very, very difficult. Shops here almost never honor warranty. That's normal here and that's not my concern. Will the Kawai ES110 last lots of years? Like even 10 years maybe with average usage everyday? I see a lot of videos and forum posts about this model with keys failing, speaker problems and other qc issues. Or is it better for me to buy a cheaper one like the Casio CDP-135 simply because I don't see anyone posting about its reliability?

On Kawai ES-110, when releasing a key after bottoming it out, there is this bouncing like a trampoline. The problem with that is that when you need to hover in the same area for repeated presses, like with Bach's Prelude in C, it feels completely off. In addition to this, I can feel the same "trembling" feedback when bottoming them out. Very flimsy feeling. Not the weight, that is fine.

Like in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxLIMcmz0f0

I don't think the bounce is on purpose to imitate some acoustic piano action because no grand piano action that I have seen behaves like this, the keys just return normally to their position. However, all of the Kawai DPs seem to do this.

So why no one mentions this as a downside, since it alters the feel of the keyboard so much? Also it adds some extra to the noise it makes. Or is this like very common for any DP to the point that it's not worth mentioning?

And are there any recommendations of better DPs around this price that sound as good? I already tried Roland FP-10, the action was so-so (too much lateral movement in keys), but the sound was...meh so I returned it. Yamaha's P125 also has a few unsavory downsides.

Im not really familiar with this brand but I heard many good things about this piano and the es 100. However, I cant decide whether I wanna buy the kawai or something from yamaha like the p-45 or the 115. Im also considering roland fp 30 as well.

I can't find anything on Google

Im having a hard time deciding which piano to get as reviews said es110 action felt "bouncier/looser" and is said to pretty loud while fp10 felt "muddy" and more fatiguing. Cant afford Es120 and similar models as they are too expensive and not really a fan buying used stuff, should i get the es60 instead since its new? Any details about how the action feels?

I was trying a Roland FP-30x digital piano and a Kawai ES-110. Both seemed good. I liked the Kawai's light action, but don't like the ES-110's connectivity. There's a new model, the ES-120, that offers more modern connectivity options. But not one store where I live (and there are quite a few) has it, or even knows when they're getting it.

I just was curious as to your experience, and how it compares to the ES-110: action, quality, etc. I'd be primarily buying it as a controller for PianoTeq, so the bells and whistles are less important to me...

(It is available from an online store in another country, but I'm not keen to buy it without trying it. Also if I needed warranty repairs, I believe they said I would have to ship it back to one of their 'facilities' for service, whereas if I buy local, I can have it serviced locally.)