Kawai MP-11 SE 5-stars Reviews

Just love it and I play it all night long.

I've had this for a few years now and I continue to love the sampes, the tuch and the experience when playing.

I play classical music on it exclusively and there are a lot of "tunable' features in this keyboard for me that I love.

I think the touch is better than many acoustical uprights (and a few grands) and it's easy to forget it's digital. It's not perfect, but it's also not corrupting my technique so when I do play an acoustical pianos, I feel in control still.

It's very heavy. Portability heavy is relative. Get a really good stand.

Build is superb. I've not had any issues (yet) with action of UI functionality.

I really, really wish the knobs on the console were rotary encoders and NOT potentiometers - or that somehow it was possible to rotate them through and past 360 degrees... You can set the pots in one menu with terrific accuracy, but move to another menu and then pots are all rotated in the wrong positions. This was not a deal breaker for me (and it should not be for you), but it is annoying to have a problem like this, both at this price point, and with all the amazing design and engineering Kawai put into making everything else outstanding.

Just WOW

Impressive piece of gear!!!!

A thing of beauty

This keyboard has the look, sound and feel of something that has been created to be as good as it can possibly be at what it does.

Nice realistic action and good depth of sound

Prompt delivery and excellent customer service.

The quality of sound and feel is as expected and as reviewed - feels realistic to play and lovely warmth to lower notes.

Purchased for home piano playing only, not for performing or variety of SFX. Chose a stage piano because able to move it easily or pack away if needed - space is limited. The piano is quite heavy compared to other stage models and takes two people to move. But I feel this is worth it for the realistic feel and excellent grand piano sound quality at this price range. Good value for money.

Best non-acoustic piano to learn and practice

After trying many brands and models, I finally got to this one and the keybed is the best I could find in a digital piano. I'm playing piano as a hobby but I could see that the time spent playing has increased greatly since I got this. Highly recommended!

Magnificent !

A grand piano in portable form. Get it.

It's heavy, but that's the one and only drawback. Get it !

Still the best on the market

Great piano feel on this keyboard and the new triple pedal is noiseless.

Exceeds all expectations

excellent instrument with a great variety in settings including brilliant and sharp to mellower/ lounge-ier piano sounds even though the namesake Shigeru setting is actually really all I need. I may imagine this but it sounds very kawai-esque, which was quite the transition from having played on yamaha stage pianos. It took some getting used to but I mean - that's to be expected when getting a new instrument I think.

It comes with the usual other instrument settings, the strings are "okay" (to be fair, i have yet to find one setting that could do a string section any justice so I might be biased here, it's still one of the better ones but yeah, that is literally the only part I'd not expect too much of) but every (other) setting is tastefully made and usable. There are even some fun ones that can be layered or used with a split keyboard which is great for layering tracks. I personally mainly use the piano sounds but I can imagine someone enjoying the other ones as well.

The keyboard plays naturally and the combination of different sounds and the option to change the responsiveness of the keys allows to completely transform the playing experience.

Downsides:

Pressing the sustain-pedal creates a shattering sound that is virtually only audible using headphones but still irritating. I haven't found a way yet to turn it off. At 34kg it is quite heavy and cases take some time to manufacture.

The multitude of ways to tweak the different settings is at first quite overwhelming but the price point should have indicated already that this instrument would be overkill for a beginner anyway.