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Make learning the piano easy and fun with Giovanni's Roll Out Keyboard - the portable piano that can play anywhere. Everyone can have fun with the Giovanni Roll Out Keyboard while discovering the easy-to-learn Gini Learning... See more » Make learning the piano easy and fun with Giovanni's Roll Out Keyboard - the portable piano that can play anywhere. Everyone can have fun with the Giovanni Roll Out Keyboard while discovering the easy-to-learn Gini Learning Method. What is it? A portable keyboard/synthesizer with a rubber keyboard that can be rolled up. Major Claims: * Fun, compact and convenient * SensiTouch Keys for True Piano Feeling * 200 Sounds This product is about as portable as a keyboard can be. Traditional keyboards, even the smallest ones made, if they offer four full octaves of standard sized piano keys as this product does, can be rather large and arent something you can easily put into a purse or backpack. This one can. Its most unique feature is that the keyboard itself is a sheet of rubber that rolls around the main computer unit to about the size of a book when not in use. When played, the keyboard takes up the same surface area as would four octaves of piano keys, plus the computer unit attached to the end of the right side. The system comes with the keyboard, a microphone, headphones, an overlay for the keyboard with the notes written on them for learning, two CDs, sheet music, a learning guide, an operators manual, and a carrying bag for the keyboard. It was indeed quite entertaining to play with. Its internal speaker isnt a professional sound system, and that was to be understood, but it was perfectly adequate to hear what was being played, as illustrated in our video. The system offers external outputs, including a MIDI output as well as headphone jacks, to play the piano through a computer system, synthesizer, or stereo. The product does have 200 possible sounds, but that includes a library of 100 voices (or instruments) and 100 rhythms. Any rhythm accompaniment can be applied to any of the voices, so technically thats 10,000 different combinations. It also has additional effects such as Reverb, Vibrato, and Sustain. Rhythm accompaniment also has a tempo adjusting and synchronizing capability. All in all, this product was observed to be a very full featured keyboard for its price. The least expensive keyboards that offer at least four octaves of keys typically start at twice as expensive as this particular product, and can average hundreds, if not over a thousand dollars or more. As to this products claim of having a true piano feeling this statement is true only in the sense of the keys being the same size as standard piano keys. That is, if you play the piano and the muscle memory in your fingers is trained to play particular chords, runs, or for example a left hand thumb and pinky octave, your fingers will find the right keys at the right distances from each other. However, the keys themselves feel nothing whatsoever like a real piano keys. As expected, they feel like pressing a flat piece of rubber, not a smooth piece of white ivory or ebony that depresses below the surface of the rest of the keys, sensitive to attack velocity with which its stuck, with the ability to control volume, intensity, sustain, dynamics, etc. There are some electronic keyboards and synthesizers that do have true piano feel in their keys, inclusive of weighting, attack velocity sensitivity, etc. but they are typically quite expensive professional keyboards. We did observe one other performance aspect of this product that is worth noting. It is very important that the product be placed on a hard surface for it to work properly. When placed on a table with a thick tablecloth on it, some of the contacts in the keyboard didnt register when the keys were pressed. But when it was placed on a hard surface, such as the glass tabletop in our video, it worked just fine. This is an understandable observation, given that the rubber keyboard is a series of contact switches that are normally in the off position, and when pressed, make contact and are on. If there isnt sufficient resistance from beneath the keyboard, proper contact pressure cant be made. Much of the materials that come with this product are for learning to play the piano, and no See less »

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