This digital piano has some very clever controls technology connections

The second-hand Yamaha P–45 that I just bought has controls that work in much the same way (but unfortunately no una corda pedal).

I've been researching digital pianos to purchase lately and love your deep dives into topics, please keep this one going!

Oh OF COURSE he’s a ragtime aficionado. It all makes sense!

Your digital piano doesn't go out of tune? I need one of those. Just paid a guy $500 in Google Play cards to tune my digital piano. It was over the phone, though, so it was easy. Just needed to install some somewhere on my computer.

original instrument's mechanisms *do*.(that, and the fact Vocaloid was demo technology never intended for distribution until the public demanded it).

when i was a kid i played piano classically, grades and all. but because we were poor the best thing i could have at home was a digital weighted piano like this (which was still $$$ really). but after many years of playing it got to a point where my teacher told me i had to pretty much switch to a real piano to get to that next level (professional) and really, my parent didnt want a 300kg instrument that cost thousands of dollars and so i stopped pursuing it as a career. rip

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Stop talking and play it!

im so glad someone mentioned "skeuomorphism" cause i felt like i was the only one who knew and miss what that is

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Also, godammitallsomuch

“Clutch pedal” whew! that was a knee slapper.

Since you are more technically oriented than the typical musician, here is a conundrum: one of the most important parts of a digital piano is to measure the force exerted on the keys. However, no producer will guarantee you or even state how precise that mechanism actually works or how uniform it is across all keys…. I probably never encountered any keyboard/digital piano where not a few keys were out of line with the rest, ie. reported significantly higher or lower MIDI velocities than their surrounding keys when depressing them exactly the same in tandem (like 10-20% off). Since I discovered this and the fact that noone cares, the entire digital piano business is just a USP crankout business for me, completely hollow, with noone really acting professionally. Find me a mechanism to reliably test the velocity response! The most central part of a digital piano and there is no way to validate or calibrate it. Even better: many compact pianos have a folded action and hence the contacts are buried deep inside it. If you wanna fix them, have fun disassembling the entire keyboard…….. it's ridiculous. Funny thing is: if you bring this up with people on classical piano forums, they start saying stuff like "doesn't matter if you don't feel it". And that's coming from classic guys who otherwise are obsessed about perfection in every way imaginable when it comes to performance………………. btw. I just gave you a potential way to extort or destroy the digital piano industry, at least in the medium priced segments where they don't use optical sensors.

"Sixty nine" nice

pls cover other cool things like electric pianos ( like the rhodes ) or other cool things like synths and mellotrons pls they r so cooooooool

Alec: This keyboard is missing sympathetic vibrations.
Ghost Host: I think I can help those materialize.

"it will revert, back to what it was"

wow such a great

Does this piano have upgradable firmware, and if so, could Yamaha fix the sustain pedal if they wanted to?

"Every piano has some version of this keyboard." — What about genuine alternative piano layouts, like those using the harmonic table note layout? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_table_note_layout

I would call it "diano", short for DIital pIANO.