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Tramping on. Roland booth from local Eurhythmics. Also a lot of keyboards. I jump to vacant Juno-G and try some patches though sustain pedal is missing :(. Well, good enough for live use, provided the synthesizer is superlight. The housing painted in old-Roland way gives a mixed plastic feeling though.

A couple minutes at Roland RD-700 SX digital piano – again no way. Maybe I'm getting old, need fresh air, walks and some fresh looks and keyboard opinions. But there's something new nearby – it's a digital piano Roland EP-880 – something that reminds Roland EP-76, but with 88 hammer action keys, speakers. Looks like a PRIVIA competitor has come?

All the original Casio PRIVIAs are at the corresponding booth, no new models indexed x20 here. But there's a new brand on the market here. A bunch of interactive synthesizers and even one digital piano is marketed under Medeli. The name  for piano is SP-1 and his blood brother I saw some time ago on the eBay.de. Internal speakers, 150 sounds, interesting screen displaying clefs and notes pressed, keyboard splits. The action is rather slow, no comparison to Casio, but the good is that it has even dynamics between the black and white keys (seems to be). Priced $600 in Ukraine it will have good chances.

OK, let's move to the next hall.