Casio AP-620 Celviano Digital Piano with Matching Bench Review

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(More customer reviews)We purchased our AP-620 from a local music store about a month ago. Our sons have been taking lessons for a few years now and don't seem to be loosing interest in continuing with it, so we decided tho upgrade from the cheapo $100 electronic keyboard we had to something closer to a real piano. We also wanted something that would look nice in our living room.
They compared the feel of the Celviano AP-420's keyboard to the comparable Yamaha digital piano. While both were nice, they prefered the lighter feel of the Celviano to the somewhat heavier key action on the Yamaha.
We decided to go with the AP-620 because while I'm not a musician, I am a tech/gadget person. For the extra $300, I liked all of the other instruments/sounds, rhythms, SD slot, having dedicated buttons for the features rather than holding down a function button and pressing a key on the keyboard, LCD screen, and more powerful amplifier. I also preferred the black of the AP-620 over the brown of the AP-420. However, the key action and standard piano sounds are identical between the 420 and the 620.
Assembly was pretty straight-forward, and took about 1.5 hours taking a leisurely approach and having the kids help. The keyboard portion comes full assembled, and you just need a screwdriver to assemble the stand and bench. The stand is made from the typical particle board w/wood vaneer that most furniture is made from today, with some metal crossbeams to add support and secure the front legs. Given the materials, the quality was high, with no warping or sepatation of the vaneer from the wood, no noticable gaps once the stand was assembled, as well as being quite sturdy once everything was screwed down.
The bench is all metal, with an easily adjustable height for the seat portion. This was a nice extra, as it really helps to enforce a more correct posture than the lightweight, non-adjustable folding bench we had before.
The sound of this digital piano is light-years better than the inexpensive keyboard we had before - to my untrained ear it is indistiguisable from a real piano. It is much more pleasant to listen to the kids practicing on it instead of the old keyboard which made everything sound like a bad ringtone. It makes the investment in lessons more worthwhile that they can actually practice the more nuanced parts of playing the piano rather than just getting the right notes.
Overall, I'm very happy with this purchase, and we've seen nearly a doubling in the amount of practice or just learning new songs since we've moved up to this full sized piano with a keyboard that actually feels like a real piano keyboard, as well as sounding like a real piano.
I'll also upload some pictures that show the unassembled stand, the expansion ports underneath the piano, the piano itself, and the contols for all of its features.

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