{"id":225267,"date":"2021-04-12T22:33:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T19:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/a-joyful-way-to-learn-the-piano-and-so-much-more\/"},"modified":"2021-04-12T22:33:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T19:33:56","slug":"a-joyful-way-to-learn-the-piano-and-so-much-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-joyful-way-to-learn-the-piano-and-so-much-more\/","title":{"rendered":"#A joyful way to learn the piano \u2014 and so much more"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#A joyful way to learn the piano \u2014 and so much more<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

Learning to play the piano can sometimes feel impossible, taking hours of practice and consistent dedication \u2014 especially without a teacher to guide you. Roli, the company whose original claim to fame was an expressive digital \u2018Seaboard\u2018 that allows for multiple degrees of expression, thinks its Lumi\u00a0Keys<\/a>\u00a0can help. A small modular digital piano\u00a0with light-up keys, the $299 Lumi promises to be one of the most intuitive ways of getting started playing the keyboard.<\/p>\n

It all starts with those pretty colors. The Lumi is far from the first digital piano to use lights to guide players to their next notes, but I\u2019ve never seen a treatment quite so colorful. More importantly, these colors are more than just a gimmick.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve got to take a moment to just admire the hardware here. The rainbow keys could\u2019ve easily looked chintzy, but the colors are bright and vibrant and evenly distributed throughout the keys in a way that is mesmerizing. The keys are smaller than a standard piano\u2019s \u2014 Roli claims they are a better fit for the average hand. While I can\u2019t verify that, I didn\u2019t find it an issue regularly switching between the Lumi and my full-size weighted keyboard.<\/p>\n

I like how the keys feel to play too, though Roli is a little misleading when they say the keys have 92% of the plunge depth of a grand piano. This is because the keys work in a two-step process: there\u2019s an initial portion of shallow travel<\/a>, followed by a stiffer portion that registers aftertouch. The net effect is to give the keys shallower travel than you might expect.<\/p>\n

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On the other hand, I app<\/a>reciate that Roli took the care to make the keys playable throughout the entire key length. Many keyboards are hard to play towards the tippy top of the keys, but the Lumi remains comfortable when playing those tricky passages.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>You can get an idea of the Lumi\u2019s plunge depth from the side, as well as get a look at its connectors for attaching other Roli Blocks devices.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Point is; I think the skills you learn with the Lumi should be fully translatable to other keyboards. It\u2019s not a full-size weighted piano, but I don\u2019t imagine most people considering a Lumi are also planning to play Liszt at the Philharmonic anytime soon.<\/p>\n

Besides, the Lumi can do some stuff a regular piano \u2014 or even the vast majority of digital keyboards \u2014 can\u2019t. Aside form the Lumi\u2019s modular design and fancy colors, the keys also support polyphonic aftertouch.<\/p>\n

A typical digital keyboard just records the velocity with which you hit the notes. More advanced models can also detect the pressure you place on the keys after initial contact, and some others detect the speed with which you release the keys.<\/p>\n

The Lumi takes things a step further by allowing you to actually shift individual keys slightly side to side \u2014 kind of like vibrato on a stringed instrument \u2014 in order to bend pitches. This allows for a degree of expression that\u2019s not really possible with most other digital keyboards, especially if you\u2019re trying to replicate non-keyboard instruments. I mean, just check this out:<\/p>\n