Roland RP-400 88-Key SuperNATURAL Digital Piano

A Premium Piano Experience For Young Families

Compact, attractive, and filled with Roland's award-winning features, the RP400 is the ideal choice for a young family looking to bring a quality piano into their home. With its premium sound and touch, the affordable RP400 presents a solid musical foundation for children and adults as they learn to play. In addition, onboard rhythm accompaniments offer a fun way to build timing skills while experiencing a full ensemble sound that automatically follows chords played on the keyboard. Players can also enjoy the unique sound field of an acoustic piano during private practice sessions, thanks to the innovative Headphones 3D Ambience effect. Also included in the RP401R are many extras to engage young students and encourage regular practice, such as a wide selection of instrument tones beyond the piano and support for free Roland piano apps for the iPhone and iPad.

A Solid Investment For Music Development
With Roland's highly respected sound, action, technology features, and build quality, the RP-400 brings professional-level performance at a very attractive price. This handsome instrument is a perfect choice for a young family on a budget, or a piano educator looking for a quality instrument for their lesson studio. The compact design combines space-saving efficiency with traditional appointments, including an integrated music rack and a retractable lid that covers the keyboard when not in use.

Premium Tone And Touch For Learning Piano The Right Way
The RP-400 features superior quality that easily outranks other instruments in its price class, providing a bedrock foundation that will last through many years of musical growth and piano enjoyment. Roland's renowned SuperNATURAL Piano sound engine delivers the rich, expressive sound of an acoustic grand, offering an authentic piano experience that inspires young students to practice and learn.

The newly developed PHA-4 Standard Keyboard inherits the functions, appearance, and Ivory Feel texture of keyboards found in our flagship instruments, and includes the very latest sensing technology to take full advantage of SuperNATURAL Piano's enormous tonal range. The RP-400 also has three integrated pedals like an acoustic grand, including a Progressive Damper Action pedal that offers continuous response for traditional playing techniques.

Free Roland Apps Help Motivate Kids To Play The Piano
Roland's free apps for Apple iOS devices provide a unique way to motivate a child's interest in playing and practice. With the Air Performer app, they can play along with favorite songs in the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch wirelessly through the RP-400's sound system. The Piano Partner app for iPad includes Flash Card, an interactive music program that kids will love, plus an intuitive graphical interface for selecting tones and songs in the RP-400. Flash Card develops listening and reading skills in a fun way by challenging the student to identify notes shown on the iPad's display and sounded from the piano, with awards given after five challenges. Piano Partner also includes DigiScore Lite, which displays the RP-400's onboard songs as sheet music on your iPad. Available from the Apple App Store, these apps make it easy to use today's mobile technology to energize a child's piano development.

Enhanced Learning and Enjoyment Through Digital Technology
For most modern families, the powerful digital technologies inside the RP-400 provide numerous practical benefits over any acoustic piano. First and foremost, the digital RP-400 never needs tuning and always sounds perfect, eliminating the annual costs that come with regular maintenance for an acoustic piano. Convenient features for practice and fun include a built-in metronome, a recorder for capturing and sharing performances, and a Twin Piano mode that splits the keyboard so that two people can play side by side.

You can easily adjust the volume of the piano's speakers, and there's even a Volume Limit function for setting a maximum level to keep your kids from playing too loudly. Another major benefit of a digital piano is the ability to use headphones to practice without disturbing others; the RP-400's unique Headphones 3D Ambience effect greatly enriches the piano experience during these private sessions, making it feel as though the sound is emanating from the instrument itself.