Roland FP-10 88-Key Digital Keyboard Bluetooth

I’m just starting to learn piano, but I grew up with acoustic pianos at home, so I know what they feel like and sound like. Does this feel like an acoustic piano? No, but it has the best action and feeling I’ve ever felt in a non-acoustic piano. Playing this feels simply amazing. It is an absolute joy on the fingers, no joke. I could play this for hours just because it feels good. It makes you want to keep playing it.

Even though the action doesn’t exactly feel like a real acoustic, it is still utterly spectacular, and the material of the keys is shockingly good. The material, like the action, is still not quite like a real acoustic, but once again the material is the best I’ve ever felt in a digital piano, by far. For the money, this is a shockingly good piano.

I can’t stress enough how good it feels to play, how good the material and action feels. I seriously didn’t even know they made digital pianos that were this good. This feels extremely high quality, and is an absolute joy to play. For a beginner like me, I wouldn’t want anything else. It blows me away despite not quite being exactly like a real acoustic.

The built-in piano sounds are okay for a beginner piano, but nothing special. For me, that’s not a concern because I’m using this primarily as a midi keyboard hooked up to my computer or to a midi synthesizer. With the built-in piano sounds, it does sound realistic at the high and low ends of the keyboard, but the middle sounds very mediocre. It also doesn’t have the booming room filling kind of sound that a real acoustic has. It sounds like a digital piano. But if you’re hooking this up to your computer or to a synthesizer, then it doesn’t matter. If I had to make one suggestion for improvement, it would be to have just one digital piano sound, but make it simply incredible.

Having said all that, I want to circle back to how good it feels to play. The material and action feel as close to an acoustic as anything I’ve ever felt in a digital piano. The action is simply a joy, I can’t get over how good it feels. Don’t go in to it expecting it to feel like an acoustic piano though, it doesn’t quite feel like that. But it is the nicest feeling digital piano I’ve ever experienced in my life. As a digital piano, it is obscenely high quality feeling. It feels like a serious instrument. By the way, the keys are perfectly quiet, despite some rumors to the contrary. If you’re using it as a midi keyboard like me, you’ll absolutely adore it because the action is better than any other keyboard on the market at this price.

As a digital piano, compared to other digital pianos, this is probably the nicest one on the market for this price. It just feels superb and extremely well made. It feels so good on my fingers that it makes me just want to keep playing. For use as a midi keyboard, this blows everything else out of the water. If you’re an experienced musician, clearly you’ll probably want to spend $2500 or more, but if you’re beginner like me, look no further.

Ho sempre voluto imparare a suonare il pianoforte e questo strumento mi sta dando la possibilità di farlo. I tasti pesati che ho sono fantastici e sono graduali come quelli di un pianoforte vero. Arriva con il pedale incluso che ho una cosa da non sottovalutare e il leggio porta spartiti. Presenta l’applicazione con diverse funzionalità di personalizzazione a partire da suoni e a finire anche alla brillantezza del suono stesso. Con l’applicazione possibile imparare il pianoforte tramite dei libri digitali che sono all’interno previo pagamento dell’abbonamento e diversi esercizi sul riconoscimento delle note per allenare l’orecchio. Chiama l’applicazione permette anche di registrare ciò che si suona, però purtroppo non permette di esportare il suono in mp3. Quindi per registrare è sempre necessario avere un programma che si può adattare a questa esigenza. Supporta sia il MIDI Bluetooth che il MIDI via cavo.

Che dire ottimi sono i campionati e ottima costruzione, a questo prezzo difficile trovare di meglio.

Aggiornamento dopo un mese:

Questa tastiera è a mani basse il bestbuy a questo prezzo. Superlativo, i suoni che ha dentro sono bellissimi e l’app è molto funzionale.

8/23/23
Just got it last night and I was surprised. It’s heavy, very heavy.
Took it out the box, set it up and realized I definitely need a piano stand. It’s large and heavy.
Hooking it up to my ipad was a breeze, download the app, hit the connect button and tada, done.
I was surprised that the keys felt weighted and took a some effort to push down – like a real piano. I’m pretty happy that it’s so similar to a full piano. The keys feel great on the hands and not cheap or flimsy, this is definitely a quality build.

I’m a brand new learner and I have not played or used it much so I will update after 6 months or so. I’m on a journey to play Clair de Lune.

This digital piano has passed my expectations so far. It is light and small enough for the user to pick up and store in the closet after practice, which in my case is a big plus.

The key covering is really nice to the touch, much better than the plastic coverings on other keyboards and even on concert pianos.
Although the “action feel” is not 100% exactly like on a real piano, it has enough realistic weight and resistance one needs to develop strength and dexterity, so the transition to a real piano only will need small adaptations. The “Heaviness” of the keys can be adjusted! The default is the “Medium” weight; I recommend the “Heavy” setting as this comes closest to a real Grand Piano. To find out how to do that you’ll need to download the REFERENCE MANUAL.

With broad dynamic range headphones the sound is really good; with the built-in speakers however it is somewhat “nasal”. Furthermore, the sound “dulls” when adjusting the key weight to “heavy” and especially to “extra heavy” (therefore the 4 stars for sound quality), so I would not recommend to get this piano for serious recording or concert use i.e., although the “voicing’ of this piano (brightness, reverb) can be custom adjusted, independent of the 4 general piano sound settings it has.

UPDATE: Both piano sound complexity and realism (not speaker sound quality) and action feel are good enough for using the Roland FP10 as a practice instrument for piano players. This has been my experience in recent months and is also corroborated by reviews on YouTube.

Tuning pitch (but not temperament!) and key transposition are adjustable as well, and all custom adjustments can be saved. Again, it is important to have the reference manual for doing that; the user’s manual that comes with the instrument does not explain how to do custom adjustments! Those functions however are the ones that take this digital piano beyond “entry level”.

It is NOT necessary to connect the piano to the Bluetooth to make it work, or for any of the mentioned custom adjustments, and I haven’t ventured so far at this point. I will update once I have.

The cons I found is that 1) there is no jack outlet for headphones in the FRONT of the instrument, 2) the Metronome does not have a graded slider, knob, or display with the standard numbers of beats per minute we find on a traditional metronome. UPDATE: The DEFAULT beat rate is 120 BPM. Pressing the +10 or -10 and +1 or -1 keys changes the beating rate; it takes some math to set the desired rate. 3) The FP10 has no on board recording feature; if you need one better get the FP30.

Also, I recommend to get a better quality sustain pedal right away when ordering this piano, as the provided pedal switch is a real pain to work with because it is too light, and slides away under the foot.

Other than that I haven’t found any problems. I will keep this review updated if anything else comes up.

I am a retired classical concert organist who recently decided to take up piano playing again; but have no space even for a small acoustical or standalone digital piano. I am happy to have this portable practice instrument at home, and consider that the price is right for what this piano is. Very satisfied so far!

This is recommended by the piano teacher. It comes with a foot pedal. It fits the stand I had from my previously purchase of a keyboard. It has Bluetooth capability, but I couldn’t figure out how to connect it to a Bluetooth headset. It does have a jacket for wired connection, but it is not the typical 3.5mm one. I ended up using a converter piece that I had from the keyboard purchase to convert it to the standard 3.5 mm to connect. But overall, it’s a great piano for beginners.