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4.5
This was a replacement for the 88-key Lagrima keyboard I bought back in 2020. While the Lagrima was an excellent keyboard, in my opinion, I really put it through its paces -- oftentimes practicing up to four hours a day, every day. When I began rigorously practicing with the Hanon exercises everyday, I think it was just too much for the Lagrima, and it started with the 'A' major key going super loud, and then the 'A' in the bass cleft going super low, and then 'F' on the seventh octave going super loud as well, and then eventually I decided it was time for a replacement.This was on sale the day I started searching and had basically everything I wanted (though I was looking for a 101-key digital piano, I was fine with an 88-key replacement). It came down between this and a wooden-key Yamaha. I ended up going with this one because, again, it was on sale. Otherwise it was the same price as the Yamaha I was eyeing.The first thing I noticed that was different between this and the Lagrima is that this has far heavier weighted keys. The Lagrima also had weighted keys, but nowhere near as heavy as UISCOM Keyboard. Also, this thankfully came with three pedals, which I was desperately looking for out of my next digital piano; but unlike the Lagrima, they are also much heavier.Essentially it took me about a month to get acclimated to the weight changes, and re-practice a lot of basic exercises to get he tone and timing right with the sounds and melodies of some preferred songs.That being said, this sounds very close to a real life piano in terms of the grand piano instrument. Like most other digital keyboards, you have about 127 different instruments to choose from, and a number of different effects you can use to alter their tone and sound. As stated, the grand piano sounds amazing, and with the weighted keys, it will definitely feel like playing a real piano.The downside, however, is that many of the other instruments (save for the xylophone, marimba, and bell instruments) sound very... artificial. The Lagrima, in my opinion, had much better sounding synthetic electric piano instruments, and several other instruments that sounded more natural. I may have to mess around some more with the instructions and the instrument tones, but I'm not a fan as of the writing of this review.But I'm not too fussed given that the grand piano (the default instrument) sounds so good that I don't really feel compelled much to use anything else. Most of my favorite songs sound really good on this keyboard and it has such a high-quality design. Hopefully it lasts longer than the Lagrima.
