Music Instruments: Guitars, Volins & Accessories
Even throwing a Squier neck on this bad boy would greatly improve things. I really don’t think anyone would regret purchasing this instrument at the end of the day. If you like to experiment with instrument sounds and recordings on a digital piano, consider the Casio CDP-S360.
The Casio CDP-S160 doesn’t quite capture the subtleties of a grand piano as well as the Roland FP-10 does, but it comes close—and its physical controls are easier to use. The CDP-S160 also includes useful teacher-and-student features, such as a duet mode for playing a lesson together. It has only 10 sounds, but the acoustic-piano and electric-piano simulations are very good, and the jazz-organ sound is one of the best we’ve heard in a digital piano. The Alesis Recital Pro is by far the easiest to use of the digital pianos we tested, which may be especially important for beginners. Despite being the least expensive of our picks, it offers a digital display plus a duet mode for a student and a teacher to play together. It doesn’t sound or feel as realistic as our other picks, but it’s still a great choice for the price.
It’s amazing for less than $100 you can get a playable guitar let alone a great guitar. I would price this guitar in or around the $500.00 range. Ordered a guitar, and after reading negative reviews about their scamming habits, cancelled my order. I talked to a team at glarry, and they confirmed my order was cancelled before the order shipped and that I would be entitled to a full refund. However, the company never refunded me whatsoever and I had to contest the charge to get a refund.
The Recital Pro typically sells for hundreds less than the FP-10, and that savings is somewhat evident in the quality of the sounds that this piano produces. Thanks to its intuitive button design and LCD readout, this keyboard is the easiest to use of our picks. However, it doesn’t come with a sustain pedal, so it requires an extra purchase of about $20 to make it fully functional.
A good digital piano offers the most practical way to learn how to play piano. Compared with an acoustic piano, a digital piano is less expensive, more compact, more portable, more affordable, and more versatile—and it never needs tuning. The best digital pianos feel and sound so much like the real thing that students will easily transition to an acoustic piano. Among budget models priced around $600 or less, the Roland FP-10 comes closest to the sound and touch of a real grand piano, which is why we recommend it as the ideal way to begin your (or your child’s) journey with music. The physical controls on the Roland FP-10 leave much to be desired.
It also has built-in Bluetooth support for connecting wirelessly to a phone or tablet running Roland’s Piano Partner 2 app. However, its physical controls aren’t intuitive, and it offers only 15 sounds—that’s enough for most students, but performers and recording hobbyists may want more. My experience with Glarry has been outstanding until now. Clearly you shouldn’t expect a 2 thousand Euro Original P-Bass, but after setting up the GP 4-string that I bought from Glarry for 88 Euros it plays unexpectedly and surprisingly well. My name is Baron Anastis, I am a professional bass player and vocalist.
The FP-10 lacks a digital display, and making adjustments manually is less intuitive on this piano than it is on our runner-up pick, the Casio CDP-S160. It displays volume via a series of lights that slowly get brighter and fill up as you press the button to make the volume louder, which is considerably less accurate and slower than turning the knob on the Casio model. Even the owner manual doesn’t explain most of these features; you’ll need to keep the separate FP-10 reference manual on hand to figure them out. Roland’s Piano Partner 2 app makes these functions easier to adjust and allows precise tempo settings, but for day-to-day use most students probably won’t want to go to the trouble of opening the app. The Casio CDP-S360 is similar to our runner-up, the CDP-S160, in sound and feel, but it gives you a lot more features for not a lot more money.
I would have felt better if they took my money and not sent the piece of crap at all. I bought a Banjo Guitar and the instrument was unplayable. Strings were 1cm above the frets after maximum truss rod adjustment. I had to cut down the bridge and the nut just to be able to play a chord.
This is where the guitar really shines, it is easily the best $60 guitar I have ever played or ever expect to play. And that fact is really important to understanding how to grade this guitar. Not at all, beginners are better off spending double for a decent Squier, Epiphone, or whatever and actually getting an instrument that stays in tune or sounds like a classic guitar. Absolutely, it’s an excellent guitar for you to practice guitar tech work on, such as re-wiring pickups, setting up a neck, intonating a guitar, changing tuners, etc. And while doing that, you can build a great throw around guitar or backup instrument, by just changing a few small things.
Right off the bat, the fret work was much better than I anticipated and the neck came with a thin finish, even though I was told the necks came raw. Aside from these two pleasant surprises, one thing that shocked me was how thick the neck was. I mean in all honesty, this was the largest guitar neck I have ever played. It was necessarily uncomfortable for me, and my bass playing roommate loved it for a guitar, but I feel beginners would really struggle with learning on this instrument. We immediately notified the company via the customer service email address, they asked for pictures which were immediately provided, and we never heard from them again. I asked for a return authorization or a return shippng label and didn’t receive anything.
