Digital pianos
Every piano here has 88 weighted keys, which is the line that separates a piano from a keyboard. What separates these three is what is in the box and whether the instrument can be moved.
The specification sheets are close enough that the box contents decide this category. A piano without a pedal is a piano you cannot play properly, and a piano without an adapter is furniture until a parcel arrives.
The Casio CDP-S110 is first because it includes the SP-3 pedal, the music rest and the power adapter, and because at 99 mm deep and 10.5 kg it fits on a desk and can be carried by one person.
The Roland FP-10 is here for one specification the others do not state: Roland describes a low-noise key mechanism. Headphones silence the speakers, not the keys, and in a flat with thin floors the mechanical noise of the action is what the neighbour hears.
The Yamaha ARIUS YDP-105 is the answer when the piano has a permanent home. The stand is the instrument, three pedals are built in, and nothing moves while you play — which no X-frame stand fully achieves.
We would not buy 88 unweighted keys and call it a piano. That is a different instrument with its own merits, and it is covered in the keyboard guide.
88 weighted keys · 10 sounds · pedal and stand included
A slim 88-key board with Casio’s Scaled Hammer Action II and, unusually at this price, the SP-3 pedal, music rest and power adapter already in the box. Ten sounds rather than hundreds — the money went into the keys.
Best for: A first weighted piano where the pedal and adapter should not be a second order.
≈ 300 €
88 keys · SuperNATURAL · headphone output
Roland’s entry into the FP series: 88 keys with an ivory-feel surface, the SuperNATURAL engine, and a keyboard mechanism Roland describes as quiet in itself — the detail that decides whether a flat-dweller can practise at night.
Best for: Someone who will practise mostly in headphones and wants the action to be the strong part.
≈ $500 / £390 / 400 €
88 GHS keys · three pedals · console cabinet
A console piano rather than a portable one: 88 Graded Hammer Standard keys, three pedals and a cabinet that stays where you put it. Yamaha also fits a volume limiter, which sets a ceiling on output.
Best for: A permanent practice piano in a room where it can stay assembled.
≈ 700 €
From about €250 for a slim portable with a hammer action, and from about €700 for a console instrument with three pedals. Below €250 the action is what gets cut, and the action is the instrument.
For piano repertoire, eventually yes. Seventy-six covers most of it and 61 runs out; but the deciding factor at this level is the action, not the count — 88 unweighted keys teach less than 61 weighted ones would.
Prices quoted in these summaries are dated readings. The live price is shown next to each product.
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