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Topic: Has anyone bought one of those roll up piano soft keyboard?  (Read 5032 times)

Offline jimiboo

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 ;)  Has anyone bought one of those roll up piano soft keyboard?
like this :
https://www.dhgate.com/49-key-portable-roll-up-electronic-piano/p-ff80808127033f9d01271f598d4724df.html

i have get some answer from yahoo . but i want to know more...
the answer is :
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080604120348AAkS57o

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Re: Has anyone bought one of those roll up piano soft keyboard?
Reply #1 on: March 10, 2010, 05:19:00 AM
Personally I think it is a waste of money. If it was a full size keyboard then I might be more interested, if you could also have some pedal function then I would be even more interested. I like the idea of rolling up a keyboard though.
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Re: Has anyone bought one of those roll up piano soft keyboard?
Reply #2 on: March 10, 2010, 12:25:05 PM
Goodness gracious, what will they think of next, a fold-up Eigenharp?

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Re: Has anyone bought one of those roll up piano soft keyboard?
Reply #3 on: March 10, 2010, 03:26:04 PM
Haven't bought one, but I have tried one out before and found it terrible. The feel of the "keys" was totally wrong and I found it actually difficult to play.
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Re: Has anyone bought one of those roll up piano soft keyboard?
Reply #4 on: March 15, 2010, 04:25:03 PM
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Re: Has anyone bought one of those roll up piano soft keyboard?
Reply #5 on: March 15, 2010, 08:12:58 PM
Pst... What's the model on that M-Audio keyboard?
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Re: Has anyone bought one of those roll up piano soft keyboard?
Reply #6 on: March 15, 2010, 08:37:14 PM
See "roll-up piano?" topic under instruments section.
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Re: Has anyone bought one of those roll up piano soft keyboard?
Reply #7 on: March 15, 2010, 09:31:54 PM
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Re: Has anyone bought one of those roll up piano soft keyboard?
Reply #8 on: March 15, 2010, 11:46:22 PM
It's hard to find a little keyboard with full size keys.
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Re: Has anyone bought one of those roll up piano soft keyboard?
Reply #9 on: March 15, 2010, 11:58:25 PM
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Re: Has anyone bought one of those roll up piano soft keyboard?
Reply #10 on: March 16, 2010, 10:06:17 PM
And ones that produce their own sound?
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Re: Has anyone bought one of those roll up piano soft keyboard?
Reply #11 on: March 16, 2010, 10:31:40 PM
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Re: Has anyone bought one of those roll up piano soft keyboard?
Reply #12 on: March 16, 2010, 11:45:16 PM
I was looking for a small keyboard that produced its own tone.  I gave up though.
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Re: Has anyone bought one of those roll up piano soft keyboard?
Reply #13 on: March 16, 2010, 11:51:57 PM
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Re: Has anyone bought one of those roll up piano soft keyboard?
Reply #14 on: May 14, 2010, 11:59:56 PM
attractive sound actually - would have been a good idea for beginners etc. but COMPLETELY and TOTALLY unreliable.  Only one note in five actually plays  and that comes out too late usually

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Re: Has anyone bought one of those roll up piano soft keyboard?
Reply #15 on: June 22, 2010, 08:21:44 PM
My uncle bought one.  It's really hard to play because the touch is so different.  And, like mr j silverman said, completely and totally unreliable, plus the volume just cannot be controlled. 

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Re: Has anyone bought one of those roll up piano soft keyboard?
Reply #16 on: June 23, 2010, 01:49:28 AM
Volume as in keystrike velocity or there's no volume knob?

I was thinking it might be good for some kind of mental practice.  (No joking there.)
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Re: Has anyone bought one of those roll up piano soft keyboard?
Reply #17 on: October 29, 2011, 08:55:58 AM
That reminds me of a rollup computer keyboard I used in m cousin's house.
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Re: Has anyone bought one of those roll up piano soft keyboard?
Reply #18 on: October 29, 2011, 01:55:50 PM
It first was intended to be a travel toy only sold in Cracker Barrels and K-Marts. How'd it get so far?
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Re: Has anyone bought one of those roll up piano soft keyboard?
Reply #19 on: October 29, 2011, 06:08:24 PM
It's the same idea as the one that comes up on your computer screen to input notes on a staff or into a recording program. My seat was next to a  guy who brought one up to input some bass notes into a mix. The roll out one is like an external mouse, etc.

I can't imagine anyone thinking it was for actual playing.
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Re: Has anyone bought one of those roll up piano soft keyboard?
Reply #20 on: October 31, 2011, 11:17:43 AM
It's the same idea as the one that comes up on your computer screen to input notes on a staff or into a recording program. My seat was next to a  guy who brought one up to input some bass notes into a mix. The roll out one is like an external mouse, etc.
Honestly though, a two octave USB controller like korg nanokey (or, better, AKAI LPK25) would be more convenient than this for bass notes - at least no hard surface is needed. And quality of roll up (piano or computer) keyboards is doubtful: once I gave one a try in a shop, and despite it being brand new, a whole row of keys wasn't working.

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Re: Has anyone bought one of those roll up piano soft keyboard?
Reply #21 on: October 31, 2011, 06:47:25 PM
Since I have midi in/out from my key board I would use it. When I use one of those score writing programs, inputting the notes from a keyboard is a lot easier than clicking on the spot on the staff.
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