Mrsrobinson23

Well either way regarding the wood grain like texture, the kids didn't like it and it was too different than the baby grand they play at their teachers home and they've had the opportunity to play on a $200k Steinway at recitals too. They're currently refusing to even practice on this thing because they hate it so much, so it has to go even if it wasn't for the sound glitch. They weren't just a bit of a matte non slip kind of texture, they had a wood grain look to them. And they require more effort to push than any piano we tried at the store.

Thanks for the advice. There's two D &E's in the lower half that seem to cause it, even at half volume. My kids HATE the faux ivory feel to these keys too. We didn't get to test it before getting it. Hubby thinks I'm just being picky and silly, but it's several hundred dollars. It's such a pain returning the whole stand and bench etc that came with it. (they were from Costco, maybe the ones Costco carries are exclusive to them and not up to par??) We went to a local place and tested out a few models costing a bit more. A kawai kdp 90 which they really liked but I hated the cabinet. A P115 Yamaha I think it was, and a little Roland model as well (which had the same faux ivory grain they don't like at all). The rest were over 1500 which I'm not willing to spend on a piece of electronics considering the level my kids play at. I think I will order a kawai ES100 today as our replacement since the stand is nicer looking than the KDP90. The salesman said it will have the same feel as the KDP90

We owned a px130 for 3 years. After two, the speakers started to rattle horribly, buzz, etc. Then some keys started to sound like they hissed and some made a chirp noise. It was mostly everything below middle c that caused the speakers to go crazy, even if the he volume was at half. We took it in for warranty repair and Casio refused to fix it saying noise on a digital piano is normal. I should add that this rural repair shop had a stack of Casio keyboards in their entrance waiting for repair. Luckily the store had a great policy and took it back for credit. now I just got a px 160 as a replacement, I just don't want to spend much more than this on something for three little ones to learn on and possibly destroy, yet I need the headphone option and like this minimalist look so I'm sticking with digital. But right out of the box this one is having sort of similar speaker problems. Three keys in particular make the speakers or something inside buzz really bad, but it can be heard in the lower half of the keyboard. I don't play piano, but it's the C D E below middle C that are the worst, playing two notes at a time is worse than one. It's really annoying, and super distracting for the kids. The old piano was definitely a speaker issue, and this one seems more like something inside is causing the noise more? The speakers vibrating maybe make something inside rattle...but it's odd that a couple keys are so much worse than the rest. I also noticed that the higher notes seem to play louder, maybe that's a feature?? And the keys are so much stiffer than on the 130. I'm not sure the kids have the finger strength for it honestly. I played for 20 minutes to test it (I can fumble through the kids' faber level 2 books, so nothing intense) and I can tell the tendons in my fingers going into my wrists are messed up from doing so. I LOVE the simplistic look of this piano, but I'm going to have to find something else unless you guys who actually play piano and have played many keyboards can tell me that distracting noises are to be expected. I took off the music holder and everything to see if the buzz was something external. There's no buzz when I use headphones.