Casio CDP-S100BKC5 Full Weighted Hammer Action Digital Piano

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It has to be said that we have always liked the physical feel of the keys, which, while they are plastic, don't feel slippery. With USB and an audio input, you can listen, learn and play music from your smartphone or tablet (cable required). Beginners will genuinely have a blast playing, and more importantly, learning on these two digital pianos.

A platform for who wants to learns the basics of playing piano, guitar, drum masters’ technique, etc.This hampers the otherwise excellent playing experience and feels like a sacrifice that ends up hurting the CDP-S100.

Even though Lucas highlights the relative short key pivot length, again at my level of skill I can pretty easily play up high in the white keys.The low polyphony count isn’t that bad for beginners since most of the elementary pieces they will play won’t need a whole lot. The back-firing speakers are quite powerful for the size and sound excellent, with no distortion, even at max volume, delivering a clean, wide soundscape. The CDP-S100 includes helpful guides on the keyboard to assist with navigation and setting changes, so the main advantage of using the app is that you can always see the tempo of your metronome. The CDP-S100 has a maximum polyphony of 64 notes, which sufficiently covers all song types, whether classical songs or modern ballads. The same build quality can be found in the volume knob, which stays in place and does not wiggle around.

This uses Roland’s well-received PHA-4 Standard key action, which is used in other mid-range keyboards and has Roland’s SuperNATURAL piano modeling technology behind the piano sounds, delivering a more realistic sound to my ears. Introductions are limited to motor finance, CarMoney Limited will pay us a fixed commission per paid out deal. What I mean by ‘ping’ is that the quality of the sound and the speakers on lower end models struggle to maintain the richness you get with expensive models and real acoustic pianos. I never liked key combinations for accessing features and functions and will take dedicated keys any day.The CDP S100 is one of the most compact digital pianos, measuring just 9 inches wide (or deep) and almost 4 inches thick. Essentially, the sound palette on offer is decent enough for practice purposes, with attention clearly given to the piano tones.