Most people would probably buy a stage piano for the piano sounds, and if that's what you want, that's what you get. There's not an incredible amount of variety, but the piano sounds are fantastic and the other sounds are pretty good too.

There aren't as many features as a workstation or something, but for a stage piano/midi controller, the features are very good. The ribbons are awesome as a midi controller, much more fun to use than a wheel.

The SP88 is very intuitive and very easy to play out of the box. The manual is well-written, so if you have any problems, you'll be able to figure them out quickly.

This keyboard is extremely durable and incredibly well made. I've heard of plenty of people who have spilled liquids in their SP88s and dropped them and not had any problems. The casing is made of metal, so I think it will last a very long time.

This is a VERY good buy and a better board than almost anything in its price range.

I haven't had to deal with customer support since I haven't had any real problems with the keyboard, but based on the strength of the manual, I'd assume that they're doing a good job helping their customers.

The stylish purple casing is very attractive and sleek, though that's really about it as far as the aesthetic appeal goes. The screen isn't that incredible, but it works well, and that's the important thing.

Classical Pianist, Keyboardist

Classical, Jazz, Prog Rock

40 years

Just about anything, middle of the road you might say.

Beatifully mellower than a korg's, vivaciously brighter than a yamaha's and just much realistic than a roland's, the piano sound in this product is the best one I've herd in the digital piano world. Of couse, there are better sounds in more advanced dig.pianos but these are much more expensive, so I am writing my comparision between the products of the same level (or the product's competence, if you like) I personally heared and played identical products of casio, yamaha, alesis, roland,gem and korg, but when I heard the kurz piano I said "this is the one, this works for me!" Is a real gig mosnter! and that explains it about all. I've never did a recording, thought, I imagine is at least as good as it is live. As a negative point I would say I would like if the "grand piano" were more sensitive, it has a low expressioness, the "stage piano" on the other hand is very sensitive but is not as thick as the grand piano, so some chords just don't stay sounding for much long. Other point is about the other sound but piano. The one or two ep's and one or two rhodes are good, the rest is not very usable. And i find only one organ to be of use,but would it hurt them to make all the organs and ep's sensitive? (some are not :( ). The strings are usable (when i say usable i mean they are not superb, or a sound revelation to the ears, but they are not lame either), and we know strings can be lame! The pads are nice too. But I personally were never insterested in many features or sounds but a good decent piano, and boy this baby has one! One piano on stage. I give a 10, because my paramethers are the products you could get by the same price and in terms of a piano sound this is the best!

It comes with the pedal (among with the dc.) It so cool to have it comming with the pedal! (and its a good black thick pedal). Now besides the accesories that may include, I dont think features are the strong of any dig.piano, i mean what could you possibly expect? to sample? to sequence? to fly directly to the stage? But I do have a features critic on this product, and it is about those fancy-wannabe ribbons. They seem just a waiste of about 10 cm of the width! well saying this may be a little too much since they do work on midi controlling, but it wouldnt hurt them too much either if they would aloud all of the organs and (why not) the eps to be affected by the ribbons! or to make one of the ribbons change the tune! like any regular ribbon.

Really simple and graphic interface when passing to one sound to another, sence each couple of sound has his own button (couple because they come two sounds per button, just press again and get the other spund). General basic settings, such as transposing,changing the tune or the sensitivity or adding much or less level of reverb is not very complicated. -Now I really want to add this obvservation, i didnt know if it belongs here or in "features", I think here is ok. I read somewhere the word "lightweight" as one of this piano's good things. L I E !!! BIG FAT LIE! This got to be THE most heavy dig.piano of all! The manual says 30 lbs, I dont know were they come up with that number because this baby weights at lest the double!

Sturdy as a tank. And I like to add I really like the feel of the keys, it is a very little bit light compared to a pianos feel but its very well made,the lower section is heavier than the upper, nice detail!

I believe its a good inversion for the quality, but for my personal economy it was not cheap at all!

I never needed support. Only once I asked about the ribbons by email because I thought they dindt work and they answered me just hours later.

Big, heavy sturdy and black. Its investor on a stage, good presence.

Professional musician, director of a tango orchestra, pianist on a latin jazz band and in a baroque orchestra. Sessionist, arran

Jazz, tango, latin,clasique,ethnic.

Playing 30+ years, play lead guitar also, professionally.

Country, Blues, Classic Rock, Disco, Middle of the Road.

I use it almost exclusively for the piano sound. And I am very happy with that. There have been a few occasions when I would like to have a Rhodes or B3 sound, and it's best to stay away from those on this instrument.

Great piano sounds, lame tonewheel organ and electric piano sounds. Very light action.

The keyboard itself has performed flawlessly on tons of gigs. However, I feel that Kurzweil should provide a more substantial power supply. The included one, which has an extremely thin, brittle cord, started to short out in a memorial service and nearly lost me $200.00!

Very inexpensive, nice sounding keyboard.

About as "Sexy" as a good fingernail clipper, but it does the job.

jazz/commercial

I am very unimpressed with the sounds on this keyboard. The grand piano is mediocre and that is probably the best sound on the board. There isn't one usable electric piano sound out of the 10. My old Roland XP10 has better ones. In addition there are these stupid ribbons in the place of modulation wheels that serve almost no purpose, They only function with a few of the sounds and are awkward to use. Kurzweil told me that they are for midi applications, which would be great if I could get the midi to function.

The ribbons in the place of modulation wheels is stupid and impractical, and only functions with 3 or 4 of the sounds on the thing.

Seems to be put together well but I've only had it for a couple of months and haven't used it on any gigs.

You get what you pay for. Spend a bit more money and get something good. Don't waste your time with this.

I contacted kurzweil about the midi not functioning at all. They told me to run a cable from the in on the keyboard to the out on the keyboard, and if I got a signal then there was nothing wrong with their keyboard. That doesn't help me considering every other midi instrument i've plugged in to my computer works perfectly instantly, without any tweaking. So I would say they were pretty unhelpful. They did respond to my email quickly however.

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jazz, classical, rock, pop

The samples are terrible. This, thankfully, is not what I bought or use the keyboard for.

The included sustain pedal is nice. It has good control of pedal and other MIDI controls but could definately be embellished upon.

The teeny LCD screen has some weird film on it.

I use this as a MIDI controller for a seperate rack-mount sound system and it works great. Its lightweight and easy to transport which is what I bought it for--and what I received!

I bought it because it is sleeker and more professional looking than other lightweight MIDI controllers.

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