Used Roland KR15 in polished black

The KR-15 Mini-grand piano in polished black with moving keys.


Used Roland KR15 in polished black
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KR-15: Digital Intelligent Mini-Grand Piano with moving keys

The KR-15 offers endless piano performance and practice enjoyment. For starters, it boasts Roland’s unique DigiScore display with user-friendly touch screen. It can also be connected to an external monitor for more display options. A range of Vocal Effects make singing, performing and practicing a dream. And each sound is delivered through the impressive new Advanced Acoustic sound system. This beautiful instrument is available in a polished ebony or polished mahogany finish.

• Intelligent mini-grand piano with newly-developed stereo-sampled piano sounds and 128 voice polyphony
• User-friendly control panel with large color touchscreen display
• GM2/GS/XG Lite compatible sound set with over 673 instrument sounds including 16 drum sets and sound effects
• Organ footage allows various organ sounds at different pitches
• Reverb, Chorus, Sympathetic Resonance, Rotary and 45 other effects; Advanced 3D with Surround, Physical Damper Simulation
• Hundreds of internal music styles: onboard Style Orchestrator and Style Converter (plus 32 music styles on disk)
• 140 x 4 Music Assistant sets
• Built-in 3.5" FDD: 16-track sequencer with Music Tutor Interactive for playing back SMF’s in all popular music file formats
• Song Stylist, Session Partner
• "Wonderland" interactive music game for children
• "DigiScore" music, lyric, chord and fingering in LCD display
• Microphone input with Echo, Voice Transformer, Vocal Keyboard, Harmonist
• Built-in 3.5" floppy disk drive
• Stereo sound system with resonating soundboard
Elegant mini-grand cabinet with polished ebony and polished mahogany finishes and sliding keyboard cover

Advanced New Player Piano Functions
Roland’s Intelligent Grand Series houses the most advanced, most powerful player piano functions there have ever been..

Pleasing to Every Sense
Roland has combined the best of everything—the finest materials and most advanced sound technology—to make the Intelligent Grand Series appealing to all the senses. Automatic keyboard movement: the life of the party
The superbly crafted KR-17M and KR-15M incorporate an exciting automatic keyboard movement mechanism that makes them the ideal instruments for parties—whether at a lounge, at a hall or in your living room. Simply select a Standard MIDI File (SMF) or other music file for playback, and let your guests enjoy watch-ing the keys as they automatically “play” the music. You can enjoy a multi-genre automatic keyboard performance with some of the rich selection of preset songs, or by playing any of the vast library of commercially-avail- able SMF data. Just play these, and the keys will auto- matically start moving with the song. And not only with piano music: the automatic keyboard works with many of the onboard instrument tones too. Just choose your favorite instrument and watch the keyboard go. Everyone loves to watch a player piano in action. Especially one as beautiful as a Roland Intelligent Grand. It’ll be the life of the party.
Easy remote control
You can start or stop the music, choose songs, adjust the volume or mute it, and control effects and other functions from a distance with the stylish remote for the KR-17M and
KR-15M. By attaching an external display to either of these pianos, you can easily scroll through, read and select from the onscreen menus, even from across the room. It’s ideal for parties: you control the background

The best ever Vocal Effects
The KR-17M, KR-15M and KR-15 come with Roland’s newest advanced Vocal Effects — Echo, high- quality Harmonist, Voice Transformer and more. They’re the ideal partners for beautiful and enjoyable singing. Simply attach a microphone, apply the Vocal Effects, and get ready for some entertainment. For example, using Voice Transformer, you can transform a woman’s voice into that of a man, or change the voice to sound like a cartoon character. The high- quality Harmonist effect lets you add harmonies to your singing, for a realistic live backing chorus. The numerous Vocal Effects bring a whole new dimension of fun to the party. You’ll love it!
External display for more playing options
By connecting your own external display or TV monitor* to the KR-17M or KR-15M, you can look at the large menus and icons from a distance, and select functions with the remote. On these two models, and on the KR-15 as well, when set up at a party, you and your guests can enjoy a larger, full-color score display of up to 16 measures. Or display the lyrics on the external monitor, and add your favorite bitmap background to suit your mood.
*Requires commercially-available PC-to-TV scan converter. TV monitor must be equipped with video input jack.

The most responsive piano touch possible in a digital instrument
The keyboard on the KR-17M, KR-15M and KR-15 perfectly simulates the feel of an acoustic grand piano. It’s Roland’s unique, advanced Progressive Hammer-Action Keyboard with Escapement, which gives you the same natural, responsive touch and playing performance as an acoustic grand. This mechanism faithfully reproduces the escapement characteristics of a grand piano, with the slight “click” feel to the keys. And because it uses hammers rather than springs, the keyboard realistically delivers every quality you’d demand from a world-class acoustic grand piano keyboard: a heavier touch in the lower range and lighter touch in the upper range; a lighter touch resistance on soft pianissimo passages and stronger touch resistance on fortissimo passages; and a vast touch difference between pianissimo and fortissimo, for a greater richness of expression. Its natural feel will let you express every delicate nuance of your fingers.

Perfect acoustic grand piano sound
The Intelligent Grand Series incorporates the very latest advances in stereo sampling and digital sound technology that Roland has made through
decades of meticulously studying and reproducing every detail and nuance of piano sound.
Designed specially for the KR-17M, but also incorporated into the KR-15, the Advanced 3D Surround sound system delivers dynamic, resonant sound of almost unbelievable presence. When external speakers are connected to these instruments, the sound takes on a three-dimensional quality that envelops the player and everyone else in the room. The piano sound comes from the piano itself, while the accompanying parts come from the external speakers, making it
sound just like you’re playing live, surrounded by a band or orchestra. And because the reverb parts are also delivered through the external speakers, you’ll feel enveloped in the rich, vibrant sound of a concert hall performance. Your Intelligent Grand will produce the most over- whelming presence and the most astonishing depth of sound you’ve ever experienced from a digital piano.
music — and the mood — without ever leaving fort of your sofa...or your conversation.

Built-in versatile CD drive
The built-in CD drive on the KR-17M and KR-15M comprises one of the finest and most luxurious music playback systems on earth. Not only can you play SMF data from floppy disks, you can also use the onboard CD drive to play SMF data recorded on CDs, so you’ll never run out of songs to enjoy. And since the automatic keyboard function works with SMF music data, the keys move right along with the music. With your PC, create your own disc of favorite songs in SMF, and play it back with the built-in drive. By filling up the CD to capacity, you can keep your Intelligent Grand playing for hours. You can even insert your favorite audio CDs and enjoy listening to them too. The music is delivered through the instrument’s stunning sound system — with a quality that will leave everyone speechless.

The Amazing DigiScoreTM: the Features Never End
The KR-17M, KR-15M and KR-15 also offer the best of Roland’s other famous digital features to bring even more life to your playing. Full-color touchscreen display
The full-color, easy- to-read, central touch- screen with six main control buttons gives you immediate command of all major functions, and makes using the KR-17M, KR-15M and KR-15 delightfully simple. Roland’s remarkable DigiScore and its one-of- a-kind features bring you exciting, almost endless, new musical possibilities.

Roland’s unique “Score Display”
On the KR-17M, KR-15M and KR-15, pushing the “Score Display” button brings up on the DigiScore*1 onscreen display the scores from preset songs, Standard MIDI Files, or songs you record yourself using the onboard recorder. You can choose to display the staff along with the note name, finger number*2,
chord name*3, or lyrics. Or, you can display the right-hand part or left-hand part only. An even larger score can be shown when the instrument is connected to an external display.
*1 DigiScore can be used with any of the onboard preset songs, and with SMF data. In order to improve readability, DigiScore notation may differ slightly from standard sheet music. DigiScore cannot display notes smaller than sixteenths, or display grace notes
*2 The finger number display can only be used with some of the preset practice songs Finger numbers are merely suggestions.
*3 The chord name display can only be used with some of the preset songs, and with songs that include chord information on the “Sixty Favorite Selections” floppy disk, as well as with songs that are made by using the chord sequencer function.

“Touch the Notes”
With the remarkable “Touch the Notes” function, just touch any note on the DigiScore touch- screen, and the instrument will play that note. On the KR-17M and KR-15M, it will also move the corresponding key on the automatic keyboard. For more information please contact Keysound on 0116-2541053 in Leicester. Drag your finger over a phrase or series of notes to high- light them, and the key- board plays back the phrase immediately, let- ting you check the notes both visually and aurally.

“Replay” pedal
Press the left pedal during playback, and the music stops. Release the pedal, and playback resumes from the start of that measure, so you can try that phrase again. Pressing the pedal repeatedly rewinds playback one mea- sure at a time. You never need to take your hands off the keyboard, so you can stay focused on your lessons.
Using “Touch the Notes” and “Replay” together is a great way to practice. With the “Replay” pedal pressed, use the “Touch the Notes” function to listen to and check the sound of the note or phrase you missed. It’s an effective way to make practicing more fun—and make your piano playing richer than ever.

“Select/Listen to a Song”
There are over 170 onboard preset songs — from classic to popular — built into the KR-17M, KR-15M and KR-15. The scores for all songs appear right on the screen. You can simply listen to the presets and play along, or practice either hand’s part independently, repeat certain parts, record and play back your performance, or much more.
Perfect accompaniment with the “Music Assistant” The Intelligent Grand Series comes with advanced,
easy-to-use auto-accompaniment features. You just play simple chords with your left hand, and the accompaniment automatically follows your lead on the melody, in your choice of several music genres. Your performance becomes much more exciting and entertaining. The “Music Assistant” is ideal too. Its intuitive, auto-accompaniment setup feature will choose a music style, tone, tempo etc. that best suits the song you want to play. You can also change the accompaniment to different musical styles such as Latin or jazz, and add fancy introductions and endings to create a rousing performance.

“Select Various Tones” for an exciting performance The KR-17M, KR-15M and KR-15 put over 600
instrument sounds at your fingertips, grouped into easily- selectable categories: piano, organ, violin, guitar, saxophone, drums, and others. The expressive “Touch EX” tones deliver tonal variations when you hit the keys at different strengths. “Pedal EX” tones change the sound and expression when you press down the pedal. There is also a Layer function to layer two tones on top of each other, and a Split mode to select a different tone for each hand.

“Song Stylist:” music arranging fun
With just a few touches to the “Song Stylist” menus, you can instantly rearrange many of the onboard songs to a different style: jazz, rock, classical, and others. By using the Music Style buttons on the panel, you can create a vast number of different arrangements for each song. Your Intelligent Grand comes with the Sixty Favorite Selections score book featuring a disk incorporating 60 songs. Each music file contains chord information, and is specially customized for the DigiScore, so you can enjoy the “Song Stylist” function with all the songs in the book. You’ll never run out of options.

“Session Partner:” your own personal band With this feature, you
can choose up to five virtual band members, and set their playing patterns and styles. Then you just play freely any way you want, even with both hands. Whatever kind of music you play, your own personal backing band will be right behind you.
Keyboard 88 keys (Progressive Hammer-Action Keyboard with Escapement)
Touch Sensitivity 100 levels
Keyboard Modes Whole, Split (adjustable split point), Layer, Arranger, Piano Style Arranger, Manual, Drums / SFX
Max. Polyphony 128 voices
Tones 6 groups 691 variations (including 16 drum sets, 2 SFX sets)
Temperament 8 types, selectable tonic
Transposition Key Transposition (-6-+5 semitone steps), Playback Transposition (-24-+24 semitone steps)
Effects Reverb (16 types, 127 levels), Chorus (8 types, 127 levels), Sympathetic Resonance, Rotary and 45 other types, Advanced 3D with Surround, Physical Damper Simulation (Advanced Resonance)
Equalizer 5 bands, Master level
Music Styles 6 groups 228 styles x 4 types (Style Orchestrator)
Music Assistant Over 140 sets x 4 presets
Programmable Music Styles Style Converter / Style Composer
Melody Intelligence 24 types
User Programs Internal: 36 Disk: Max. 99 sets
Tempo Quarter note = 20 to 250
Beat 2/2, 0/4, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/4, 7/4, 3/8, 6/8, 9/8, 12/8
Volume 10 levels
Metronome Pattern
11 patterns
Metronome Sound 8 types
Rhythm Pattern 59 patterns
Tracks 5 tracks / 16 tracks
Song 1 song
Recording Method Realtime (Replace, Mix, Auto Punch In, Manual Punch In, Loop, Tempo), Step (Chord Sequencer), Beat Map
Edit Copy, Quantize, Delete, Insert, Erase, Transpose, Part Exchange, Note Edit, PC Edit
Touch the Notes, Replay, Select Various Tones, Song Stylist, Session Partner, Wonderland/Game, Quick Tour, Audition, Panel Lock
Playable Software Song: Standard MIDI Files (Format 0/1), Roland Original Format (i-Format), Music Style: MSA, MSD, MSE
Save Song: Standard MIDI Files (Format 0), Roland Original Format (i-Format), Music Style: MSE
Internal Songs Over 170 songs
User Memory Max. 200 songs on Favorites, Max. 99 User Styles, Max. 99 User Program Sets
DigiScore Yes Score Display: Grand Staff / G Clef staff / F claf staff, with note name/ lyrics / chords / fingering
Rated Power Output 70 W x 2
Speakers 20 cm x 2, 5 cm x 2
Display Bouncing Beat Indicator, Graphical Color LCD 320 x 240 dot (backlit LCD)
Language English / Japanese / German / French / Spanish
Lyrics Yes (built-in/external display, MIDI output)
Control Volume, Brilliance, Volume Balance, Contrast, Mic Volume
Pedals Damper Pedal (half-pedal recognition), Soft Pedal (half-pedal recognition, 36 functions assignable), Sostenuto Pedal (36 functions assignable)
Vocal Effects Echo, Voice Transformer, Vocal Keyboard, Harmonist
Connectors Output jacks (L/Mono, R), AUX Output jacks (L/Mono, R), Input jacks (L/Mono, R), Mic Input jack, Headphones jack (Stereo) x 2, MIDI In connector, MIDI Out connector, Computer connector, Pedal connector (8-pin DIN type), Expression Pedal connector, Ext Display connector (15-pin D-Sub type)
Power Supply AC 117 V / AC 230 V / AC 240 V
Power Consumption 180 W
Cabinet Finish Polished Ebony
Accessories Quick Start, Owner's Manual, Roland 60 Classical Piano Masterpieces, Sixty Favorite Selections, AC cord, Maintenance Kit, Key Cover
Size and Weight ( with lid closed )
Width 1,465 mm 57-11/16 inches
Depth 938 mm 36-15/16 inches
Height 912 mm 35-15/16 inches
Weight 110.0 kg 242 lbs. 9 oz.
Size and Weight ( with lid open )
Width 1,465 mm 57-11/16 inches
Depth 938 mm 36-15/16 inches
Height 1,431 mm 56-3/8 inches
Weight 110.0 kg 242 lbs. 9 oz

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