Kawai MP-11 SE

Eu só necessitava da parte midi do teclado, portanto todas as outras opções dele em termos do som interno etc não me dizem grande coisas pois só uso como controlador midi. Comprei poque o kawai vpc1 tinha uma acção demasiado pesada e artificial e vários problemas de comunicação do pedal com o computador. O teclado deste MP11 SE é superior ao kawai vpc1. Não é Noite para o Dia mas é uma diferença (para melhor) muito substancial. Também estamos a falar de um teclado (kawai vpc1) que era uma referência no mercado. Se lançarem o vpc2 trocaria por este. São modelos muito pesados e não andaria com eles na estrada sem roadies. a qualidade de construção não tenho nada a apontar e do que testei (não muito) dos sons internos, tem qualidade mas não muita diversiade - como é um teclado mais focado na qualidade em piano, a parte da programação também está muito mais virada para esse campo. Mas mais uma vez volto a repetir - não era isso que me interessava. Portanto cumpre as funções que precisava dele - devia/podia ter uma opção de desligar as luzes todas porque ficava mais classy como o kawai vpc1, mas não se pode ter tudo.

I am using this piano for a practicing and in my home studio as a main source of piano sound and midi controller.
In my opinion, it has the best hammer action You can get on a market these days. I work as a professional pianist and keyboard player over 15 years and tried many top end stage pianos from Nord, Yamaha and Roland, So far this is the closest touch to real piano I ever played.

Sounds of pianos are beautifull, warm, just the noise of pedals by factory settings is too loud, but no big deal, you can change it in settings and save the preset. And same with the metronome, by factory settings is crazy loud.

The built quality is great, there are no cheap plastics, but solid metal and wood. The bad thing is that make this piano togather with a hammer action very heavy, I cant cary the piano on a gig just by myself, You need an another person to help you.

Handling is not a strongest point of this piano, but still ok, for expample if you want to play audio file from your USB stick, You may think You put USB Stick inside and press the button USB and find your file, but not,You have to press Record and do some steps to load the song, I had to google it to find out, it isnt intuitive.

Summary it is a great good looking Stage piano, and if you have somebody to help you to carry it, or You use keyboard mainly in studio or home as myself, it is a great choice!!!

I will preface this review by saying that the piano itself is superb as a substitute to a real acoustic / grand piano. The action is excellent, and it feels very pleasant to play. However, what makes the action so good also makes it fallible and thus feels like purchasing a long-term problem.
My own MP11SE displayed early issues only 18 months after purchasing it, and the support I received both from Kawai and Thomann was very disappointing.
After reaching out to Thomann about my piano’s issues, they arranged for a technician to come see the piano.

He replaced all the slip tapes in my piano and he was very pleasant. However, his visit fixed one problem and left several more.
Two keys now have friction against each other (caused by the wood they are built with having splinters), and it is quite distracting to hear it each time I play a piece which involves those keys.
I let the technician know immediately while he was at my house and he told me that "slight noises are part of the normal operation of a piano" and while I agree somewhat, the noise wasn't there before.
Furthermore, after practicing a section marked "pianissimo" I noticed a high D was significantly heavier to press than the other keys. This prompted a more thorough inspection, and I found that in total three keys were affected. Their action is evidently deteriorated, and they are hard to press and slow to return to their original position. This is extremely concerning and incompatible with proper expression of dynamics in certain pieces.
I reached out to Kawai, who conveniently referred me back to my dealer (Thomann).
I reached out to Thomann, who told me that they wouldn’t be able to have a solution before I was due to relocate. Bear in mind that between the original outreach for the piano’s issues and today, almost three months have passed. Three months in which my piano significantly deteriorated due to the actions taken by the official channels, only 18 months after purchasing the piano.
In summary, the piano is excellent but it comes with a fair amount of headaches that owners will have to be prepared to deal with. Naturally, no one who spends this amount of money on proper equipment wants to have these problems, so buyers beware.