Increasingly, manufacturers are blurring the boundaries between home keyboards, synths, digital pianos, stage pianos, arrangers and workstations, resulting in some interesting hybrids. Roland’s FP-E50 is a case in point. On first inspection, it looks like a home digital piano but then you spot the pitch and mod wheels on the left and start to wonder. There are more buttons and sliders than you’d expect on a living room keyboard, too. And that’s because, while the Roland FP-E50 can happily function as a home digital piano – it has a PHA-4
