Roland HP203

Description

A great family piano for beginners or advanced players. The Roland HP203 digital piano has everything you needm, including a great piano sound, realistic touch and hundreds of instrument sounds to play around with – all at a reasonable price.

The Roland HP203 is discontinued. Check out the new model HP603

 

Specifications:

Roland HP203 ERW (rosewood) and HP203 EMP (maple) digital piano. New PHA-II keyboard, 88 touch sensitive piano keys, graded hammer action, 306 sounds, 128 voice polyphony, LED-display, transposer, dual function, split function, reverb, string resonance, damper resonance, 3 track recorder with a 30,000 note memory, internal song memory for ca 99 songs midifile format 0, wave player from external memory, metronome 65 internal songs, V-Link, 3 pedals, Line IN on the frontside and backside, Line-OUT, Midi IN/OUT, 2 headphone jacks, USB to device jack, USB to host jack, 2×30 Watt speakers, dimensions L x D x H in mm: 1387 x 422 x 1036. Weight: 56kg, colour: dark rosewood.

 

 

Roland HP203 Reviews

The sound quality is warm and full on all the main instrumental sounds (I haven’t played about with the other 200 or so) and I felt that the sound on the HP203 was better than the Yamaha models costing four times as much.  I felt they lacked a natural, emotional sound (they seemed too perfect and manufactured a little).

The keys feel nicely weighted and are responsive and accurate to play.  They do not feel exactly like a ‘real’ piano but I’ve yet to play a digital that does.
The pedals have good feel and are not too strenuous on your ankles although I felt that when you release the pedal the sound can sometimes stop a little abruptly (cancelling the illusion of an acoustic sound).

I have been learning a slow(ish) piece by Japanese composer/performer Tempei Nakamura called ‘Ichigo Ichie’ and through the Roland it sounds even more emotive than when I play it on the acoustic pianos at my schools (although most of them are quite old and not expertly cared for).

In conclusion, I would like to say that I am thoroughly satisfied by my choice of piano and am glad that I did not just go for the Yamaha because it was a Yamaha.  Having said that, my review is purely personal so the next person who plays it might hate the sound of the Roland completely.
I hope this is of some help to someone.

Thanks for your assistance in the matter Mr Howard.  I had a good read through your check list etc before going to music shop.

D. Park BEd(hons) music.