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there's prob thousands upon thousands of reviews of the P125 - i have been playing the P125 for 2 months now. i started flowkey since 10/27 last year - took about a month off (various vacations) so i've been playing for about 6 months now. i'll never get a traditional teacher and i just use this as an exercise of the brain and hands. cuz i'm old and i needed to learn a new trick. so far have learned to play maybe 6 songs but i'm kind of dragging now cuz all i want to learn are the difficult songs so i'm taking my time to do that. anyway i was using a 90s casio ct-670 - 61 key keyboard for about 5 months - and then after i felt that i wanted to commit to it for longer term i went to purchase the Yamaha P125 - i had seen the P45 from a warehouse club - they both have the same action but not the same voices (instruments) i think the P125 is better in voices dept. i have never played a real acoustic piano and i didn't go into a store to test any of the other digital pianos out. i was deciding through online reviews between Yamaha, Roland, and perhaps Kawai - and Yamaha had a special going through 3/30 to receive a 50 dollar visa gift card with the purchase of a p125 - so i bought the Yamaha P125 digital piano only - i do not have the space for the stand. i got this on 3/13 and have been playing daily with the pandemic and all. i still need finger endurance, strength , and contortion abilities. playing the casio is so much different than playing a digital piano. after spending about a month or so with the yamaha i went back to the casio and it made casio seem like a toy. i am pretty happy with the yamaha p125 but the built in speakers could sound a little better - i mostly play with a pair of headphones - i don't want to have to subject my missus to my practice playing - i mean how many times does she want to hear me brutalize Yirumi "river flows in you" and Yann Teirsen comptine d'un autre été the original small version? i don't mind playing it over and over again. it sounds great on the headphones. i'm not going to go through the features and such there are a ton of reviews for this piano i had previously bought another sustain pedal - the one included is not so good - i actually don't even know if it works since i have been using another one from M-Audio. not having any experience with an acoustic piano i can't do a comparison between the 2 actions of the keys - but i think the yamaha is fine. it will be some time before (if the piano holds up) i would upgrade the piano to one that has better action. i recommend this for the beginner or if they need a practice piano to lieu of an acoustic piano. hope this helps. Edit 7-1-20. I noticed on a couple of occasions - 2 separate occasions— that there seemed to be a lag from when I press the keys and the sound was delayed. I hope this isn’t a sign of things to come. Just a few months old but played every day. The sound is good with the speakers if the volume is up at least half way up to 3/4 of the way up. It doesn’t sound too good if the volume is in the lower or decreased volume. Learning a lot with this digital piano. No regrets so far. 7/11/20 - edit - today this yamaha was exhibiting odd behavior. i had left it for just a moment - maybe 2-3 minutes. i come back and push on some keys and it was silent for about 30-40 seconds so i proceed to do what i would call the panacea for electronic devices - i turn it off - it didn't turn off and then suddenly all the keys i had pressed came to life at me - then it shut down. some kind of delayed response. not exactly what i expected from a yamaha product with an MSRP of a penny shy of $1000 dollars. but anyway it's still what i would call working. hope these are not a precursor to more serious issues. i cover it when i am not playing it - will update if something goes awry that needs me to invoke the 3 year warranty. 8/16/20. Piano is running well still. 9/24 piano is still going strong! Wow almost thanksgiving (11/23h- I’m still playing the piano! And this piano is still going! 3/17/21 - still playing this. Still working! 8/16/21 - still playing and it still working. 3/20/23 - still playing- I went through Faber books and still on flowkey. I can read music but still bad on rhythm but I need to practice a long bit to play but I make too many errors but bottom line is I am still having fun that’s why I got into it.