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I've been playing keyboards for 30 years, and this is the first time I've played a digital keyboard that feels GOOD. The action is comparable to a Rhodes piano with bump mod. You can feel the hammers moving, yet it's very light to the touch. This is what a weighted board should feel like, not those heavy, slow keys that many other manufacturers make.
I picked up this thing for $200, used & beat to hell. Seriously, it looks like someone threw it off the Sears Building and sailed it to Tokyo and back. But it still seems to be going strong.
I don't know if they keys are supposed to be like this, or if it's due to the condition, but they're really clunky & loud like a typewriter. I sorta like it that way because it feels mechanical. If you're used to playing acoustic & electro-acoustic pianos, this is the keyboard for you. And you can get it really cheap nowadays.
A word about the sounds (with the VE-RD1 expansion)... by today's standards they're not much to write home about, but I do like the piano better than anything I've heard in recent years. I don't like the new bright, tinkly digital pianos that are all the rage today. If you like your pianos to be dark & "wooden", this is a good one for you.
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