Roll Up Piano - Yamano Digital & Portable 61 Keys Roll-Up Piano Electronic MIDI Keyboard with 16 MI

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List Price: $159.95
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• Can be operated with batteries ONLY. 4 AA Batteries INCLUDED (12 - 15 hours run time)
• Roll it up and put it inside the included pouch for easy storage or travel with ease with this 2 lbs piano
• Built in Speaker with Digital Volume Control; Plug in Jack for headphones or External Speakers or Amplifiers
• Features 128 Tone Reportoire, 100 Background Rhythms, 20 Demo Tunes and 16-note Polyphony
• NOW WITH SUSTAIN PEDAL! Full Size 61 Standard Keys (C2-C7) 5 Octave + 1 Key Keyboard with Standard MIDI Out - 16 Output Channel Design

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Thanks so much for the quick delivery and a wonderful product. Good working unit arrived. We are very pleased with our purchase. It was a total surprise and he is enjoying it immensely. This is a good tool to keep up the skills anytime, anywhere. It's a perfect gift! It's also so much fun to play & practice. He said the touch of the keys are great. The quality of the sound exceeded all of our expectations. Check out our roll up piano video!

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As I said in the title of this review, I wanted desperately to like this roll-up piano. A little background: I am a "real" degreed organist, but I am also on the road a lot for my primary job. As such, I really wanted something that was ultra-portable that I could put in my suitcase and take with me. Pianos in hotels are surprisingly hard to come by, and pipe organs in hotels are even more rare!

So though I did't have huge expectations, I decided to try one anyway, partially because Amazon's return policy is very good (thanks, Amazon). When I opened the box, I was impressed with the size, and it IS truly portable. It was nice to have 61 keys, which happens to be the same compass as the keyboards on a modern organ. The notes seemed to work pretty well, and it was great to be able to have lots of different voices, rhythms, etc. I was under the false impression that as long as I have been playing, I wouldn't need the tactile sensation of 3-D physical keys to play. I was wrong! I tried playing various pieces, including simple hymns, and I sounded like a beginning piano player. I couldn't play well at all. Nonetheless, I did have the impression that I could eventually get used to it and play OK. I would have been willing to wait longer and see.

But the clincher for me was the MIDI functionality. It did NOT work well at all. I plugged it into my computer to try it out with Hauptwerk virtual organ software. It did not send proper Note On / Note Off signals to the computer. Notes would frequently not play, or if they did play, they frequently stuck ON. I tried various settings in the software to tweak it for the Yamano input, but after quite a bit of tinkering, gave up. It does NOT work properly with MIDI. If it were cheaper, I would have kept it for my children to play with. It really was "fun," but definitely not good enough for the price for me to keep, and it did NOT work well enough for what I needed it for. It has been returned.

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I looked for a roll-up piano, after seeing one on an episode of House! I travel for my work frequently, and decided it would be great to have a portable keyboard to be able to keep practising when I travel. It's also an excellent way of relaxing in an hotel room after a busy day of meetings. What could be better, after dinner and a few laps in the hotel pool, than to play a little Bach or Beethoven.

Reading the reviews, this Yamano Hand Roll piano seemed to best option for a decent sized keyboard. But I have to see, it is really primitive technology. While it does indeed roll out to a decent size, the electronic unit is very clunky and the sounds are, shall we say, embarrassing. Worse still, its very temperamental. The sound just stops. I would have sent it back straight away, but then discovered that it still works with earphones. Which is in fact fine for what I want to use it for.

In conclusion, I would love to find a better quality roll-up piano that will fit in my hand luggage. Until then, I'll make do with this Yamano.

Oh, and one other thing. It's described as being 'digital'. You would think it would have a USB link to connect to a laptop, to use with Garage Band or similar. But no. The design seems to predate laptops.

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I am a musician, but I'm deployed to Afghanistan, and I miss all my instruments. Also, I wanted to work a specific music project for which I needed a piano. I bought this because it wouldn't take up too much space in my sleep area and I could use headphones with it. I keep it rolled up in its pouch tucked under my bunk when I don't use it, and I got a plank of wood and sawed off an end to make it the right size so I can play in my sleep area with my headphones and not bother my battle buddies. It feels great to have music in my life besides just listening on my iPod. So far, I haven't had any problems with it. It's a pretty neat music gadget when you can't really have a real kkeyboard or piano for whatever reason.

As a professional opera singer myself, I did buy this piano in absolute personal needs. I needed something very light and portable. Therefore I didn't expect much of function as a "PIANO". However, this piano is beyond my expectation.To me it works well. Of course, it does have silicone key board so touch is different from the real key board either regular or electric piano but I'd absolutely say it's tolerable. The sound is about the same with middle quality electric piano. Just take in consideration about the price I did buy in price of $69.99 and special fuction being portable ),I'd recommand this item to my coulleagues and friends with no hesitation.