Kawai's Smallest Pianos, Compared!
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- čas přidán 20. 03. 2021
- People enjoyed my review I did a few months ago about Kawai's tiny upright piano, so I bought two toy grand pianos for my own enjoyment and decided to make a video showcasing and comparing all three. Like professional instruments or even real acoustic pianos, they are all slightly different and have their benefits and drawbacks, with differences in tone, sustain, build quality, and playability. I hope you enjoy!
Making unbiased reviews for over 10 years: / thepianoforever
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Finally - a piano in my price range! 😊
Im a guitarist, that doesnt play piano,
And i watch most of your videos. So articulate and informative without being verbose, that i truly belive a mechanic or concreter woukd enjoy your videos.
As a mechanic, I can confirm that XD
It‘s so cool you‘re testing from steinway d to those tiny little toy pianos. After watching so many of your interesting and helpful reviews I was able to find the perfect grand for me and bought a Kawai GX6 in a perfect condition. ... I love your videos and your very positive mind. Thank you an keep on! 👍
Sounds fantastic James, your studio is really coming along nicely. Always a joy to watch your videos, you really put your heart and soul into everything you do!!!
Best wishes,
Brad from Long Island
Glad you enjoy it!
I have to say that they’re “かわいい”
Love these, so much fun and it’s always cool too see new surroundings 😎 great job 👏
Glad you enjoyed!
I'm so glad I came across this video! Thank you.
Professional, informative, articulate as always.
Much appreciated!
Dude your videos are literally the best on youtube...
When I saw your white Kawai ES 520 piano I immediately looked on Amazon to find out Kawai pianos in general and saw that they also sell mini pianos. Then I came back to CZcams and saw that you also had this video.
The clicking sound of the keys is louder than the music coming out of them 😂😂
This guy tries to reduce the noise althoug he doesn't demonstrate the final result in the video: czcams.com/video/22ExIuPJGcs/video.html
Just ordered my own grand! Gonna take forever to get here (by November 1st), but I’m super excited.
Hi!
I'm really suprised that Kawai makes pianos in this size! Imagine other brands, like Steinway making toys like this...
That would be cool!
They would probably be over priced🎹🎶
It's brilliant marketing really, they'll have a whole generation of players with a fondness for their brand.
Food for thought.
I'd love to see a review of high-end digital pianos, such as a comparison of the new Yamaha CLP785 and a Kawaii CA99. Although the Kawaii calls itself a hybrid, it seems a marketing label more than a technical distinction. Both are relatively close in price range and they both represent the flagship models of instruments which strive to emulate a real grand acoustic piano. Thanks.
$100 for the "cheap" one. $200 for the other two. Junior better take good care of this.
"It's a wonderful day in the neighborhood...."
Kinda of a cool little musical collecting item. I can see how people get into them. I enjoyed the sound of all of them.
They are fun to play around with.
Hey I'd like to ask how will you find the melody of the song just basing on the sheet music. I am new to music so I don't know much of it
So cute the pianos and reviews for those! 😹
Cute sparkling music.
Very informative and helpful as always, thank you! I’m curious; in your video about the upright you miked it from the back and cut way down on the key noise, would the same thing be possible with the grand?
For this video I decided that I would use just one U87 from overhead to record all three. I could have worked with every instrument to try to get the very best sound, but this video was an overview rather than a in depth review of each piano.
hi can you please
mention link that we can buy these
They sound like music boxes!
Or church bells. Here in The Netherlands some church bells do full symphonies at times. :P
It's nice and calming, also good for some bednight tunes, has that dreamy- and pleasantness to it.
Actually suprisingly less gimmicky than expected.
They are in fact addictive.
nice as always
Thanks again!
Oh, that was what you talked about. I love these pianos. They are cute and sound nice. The upright was already nice to play but this grand sounds good. A little loud keyboard that’s for sure but who cares. It’s a toypiano with a great sound. Oh I like the room you are in. Studio B can be somewhat harder in sound but the toys sound good in it. Even your harpsichord will sound great in it. I didn’t hear you play it for a while. Maybe once play it together with the toypiano? Thank you for sharing and playing. Like it!
I can see the better grand being great on someone’s coffee table. Nice look to play or not. I also like that you took a serious look at these.
Hi James. I would love to hear you insight about the Roland LX708.... Please!
I’m just here because I like seeing people playing tiny pianos :]
Hi! Could you make a review of Juno DS88?
Amazing, I like that studio B
Studio B is a place just to chill with music.
The upright sound seems prettier and more resonant, while the grand one has better action.
Hi James! I was wondering if your test tune featured in so many of your reviews is available to buy in sheet music form. I love it, and I'd love to learn it. Have you made a tutorial video for it?
Hello James,
I am in Canada. Are these pianos still available for sale.
Have you any idea how I can buy one?
Many thanks.
Saw Cateen play on his toy pianos.
I bought mine online, they're not cheap lol.
can anyone tell me the name of all three of them and how to buy them in india
I can't find the black Grand toy piano that you say is the best. Can you help me find that one please? I want to get one for my baby grandson who is obsessed with musical instruments. I don't want his parents to buy something crappy that won't further his musical development. Can you help me find these kawaii pianos- I can not find the last one you recommend as the best one on any of the websites I looked at. Thanks so much!
Finally a grand piano i can afford
Where can I cop these
After the 10th time I saw this video, I decided to get one for myself. Let's wait for it to arrive
18:05 what is this song's name? so cute and I've heard it before but can't remember the name
Its the opening theme to the anime “The Helpful Fox Senko-san”
Or review the Kawai MR380! Can probably find it on Kijiji, the only real thing you can find online is the user manual. It's very hard to come by it seems, and it's over 10 years old!
Lucy: *insults Beethoven for the 230th time*
Schroeder: 5:38
I wish I could like this more than once
Sounds like something in a Christmas song. Pleasing to the ear.
What's the tune at 17.50??
haha great fun and quite surprising that some serious music is coming out of these toy pianos - yet I prefer my "real" Kawai upright built around 1972 ^^ - gtx from the Lake of Constance
Do you recommend the Kawai toy piano or the schoenhut ones?
The Kawai always.
Fun video of a giant calling perfectly normal sized piano's toys. Very cool.
Big thanks
Schroeder did pretty good with a piano like those, never let your self be limited by the number of keys . . . ;)
I did a video on the Schroeder model.
@@ThePianoforever And I really should have remembered that . . . that was a fun video.
Schroeder’s “toy” piano is a cartoon though. I’m pretty sure he isn’t playing real toy piano music on it when he is playing it.
@@alsatusmd1A13 and apparently no real black keys (just painted on....), and yet he can play Beethoven's entire piano repertoire......almost.
I really like how your voice sounds, compared to studio A
The sound is great!
Very cool for sure.
The playmobil piano would play the first part of Für Elise! I have one of them too, but the battery is indeed very dead
You should review the Casio CT-X700, it's the one I have and it's very uhhh... not fun for me to play. It's ~$175
Interesting to compare 12:22 with 19:01
Hey, where do u buy that? I wanna buy too
I purchased mine on Ebay.
Nothing beats the Korg tinyPiano. That thing still impresses me in videos.
My understanding is the Korg is a mini electric keyboard and does not have hammers.
@@ThePianoforever True, but if I had very young kiddies, the Korg is the direction I would lean.
Fascinating instruments, but not actually pianos. At least, if one defines "piano" to mean "short for 'piano-forte' or 'soft-loud', meaning any musical instrument which makes sound by using felt hammers to strike tensioned strings with variable force so as to be able to play either piano or forte". Which raises the question: What are the smallest _actual_ pianos made? Certainly there are uprights and baby grands; but surely there are even smaller pianos out there somewhere? Any real pianos approaching the size of these toy ones? How small do real pianos get?
True, these are not pianos - I disclosed this in my original video about the Kawai upright haha. The smallest true piano would likely also be made by Kawai, oddly enough, in the 1940's I believe. These tiny upright pianos, made for children, had true wire strings, felt hammers, felt dampers, a wooden action, a rudimentary cast iron harp, and even a vintage-style music rest. Other similar models were made by other companies too.
It may not be technically a "Piano", but it is a Hammerklavier.
The "Big?" grand needs some felt under the keys. It sounds like it was crossed with an
old mechanical typewriter. Any thought of doing some modding?
Hey, it's piano day. Aren't you doing any video for us?
I have been super busy as of late with school. I hope to work out a new solution soon. There are only so many hours in a day and I am having a tough time balancing both school and CZcams and a moment to rest in the middle.
They sound much more like a celesta than a piano.
It's true!
These are all really portable pianos
It is good decision for 80% popular songs
So kawaii!
19:26
I still wouldn't be able to afford them 😂
Maybe one day I will find a free one to review.
Why doesn't Steinway like you?
Well, if I find a Steinway I like I say so, but if I find one I don't....
66.6k subs lmaoo
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Can you please do the inovus i 88 vs Donner dep-20
I should do that comparison.