P-121 BK : My saviour

I’ve been playing for 3 years. Bought a good piano (Roland HP704) for my living room, but was struggling to find a good instrument for my bedroom and on the road (not giggs, vacations for example). I want to play every day, everywhere. I first looked at a lightweight keyboard and bought it (Roland GO), but there was an enormous gap between my weighted, graded and ivory finished keys and a plastic thing which was easy to carry but, for me, hard to play. Actually, I hated it :)

So after long consideration, I finally found an instrument which I hoped fulfilled my needs and wound bridge the gap. After a week I can say: it does! The absolute positive about this keyboard is the action. It feels much more like a high end keyboard. Of course, everything is plastic, but the feel of the keys is excellent. That comes with a price: the piano itself looks a bit bulky and is quite heavy. You can carry it around, but I don’t think I’ll get it on a train.

Since I’m mainly key action and piano focused, I didn’t look at all the features in depth. And to be honest, it is hard to access all the features intuitively. I would say this is the downside of this piano. If you need a user manual to operate it, it is not user friendly. A small screen to access all features would have been better. Having said that, the piano has enough features. All the basic interfaces and functions are present. There is even a pedal included, but it is really light and feels more like a switch. But it works and it’s kind that they have included one.

So, in short:

Pro:

- GHS keyboard action is nice!

- sounds good

- portable, but...

Con:

- ...a bit bulky

- features need a manual

- pedal not the best