Kawai MP-11 SE

I have 15+ years classical piano experience.

After playing it for almost a year I can say its been very good. It's a nightmare to move but it's doable if you are willing to sacrifice a few vertebrae from your back.

Packaging was strong. So many manuals for every language. Just make it digital and save paper.

The greatest strength is the keyboard action. It feels incredible, even better than Kawai CS-11 which I've owned for a long time. I'm able to play very technical pieces with confidence, handles repeating notes well also.

Sound is amazing, real pleasure to listen with good set of headphones. Very realistic piano sounds.

Feature wise, my only complaint is I wish they included some organ sounds and gone about the three part instrument layout a bit smarter (to be able to fit much more sounds). But these are ifs and buts. The sounds that they have are really good. Also the effects, amps and their settings are very customizable.

The pedal is lovely. Recording to USB stick is amazing feature. The interface sucks, but that seems to be common trait across every single digital and electric piano ever. Once you've figured it out how to do something it's easy though.

Built quality had some problems. Maybe I'm nitpicking, but some of the keys are ever so slightly offset from the rest when viewed from side. You'd expect it to be surgically accurate on such expensive product. It doesn't affect the playing and isn't apparent unless you really look for it, but it was something that caught my eye after a bit. It's, again, very slight.

Piano sound on/off button has a problem where it occasionally gets stuck. It's easy to get unstuck and sometimes pops up after a few seconds, but it's quite annoying when switching stuff on and off on the fly. This was reason for 4 star on quality. Everything else works well.

Overall very satisfied, I got it to train silently in my flat and that's what it has allowed me to do. I'd recommend it to serious players.

+If you are looking for bit of protection when moving the piano check out Gator G-PG-88. It's pretty affordable and is a snug fit. It's not easily movable piano though, it should stay stationary.
Also, I've been using it with a stand "K&M 18880" and it's been very good, almost no movement unless you really shake the thing.

I am using this piano for a practicing and in my home studio as a main source of piano sound and midi controller.
In my opinion, it has the best hammer action You can get on a market these days. I work as a professional pianist and keyboard player over 15 years and tried many top end stage pianos from Nord, Yamaha and Roland, So far this is the closest touch to real piano I ever played.

Sounds of pianos are beautifull, warm, just the noise of pedals by factory settings is too loud, but no big deal, you can change it in settings and save the preset. And same with the metronome, by factory settings is crazy loud.

The built quality is great, there are no cheap plastics, but solid metal and wood. The bad thing is that make this piano togather with a hammer action very heavy, I cant cary the piano on a gig just by myself, You need an another person to help you.

Handling is not a strongest point of this piano, but still ok, for expample if you want to play audio file from your USB stick, You may think You put USB Stick inside and press the button USB and find your file, but not,You have to press Record and do some steps to load the song, I had to google it to find out, it isnt intuitive.

Summary it is a great good looking Stage piano, and if you have somebody to help you to carry it, or You use keyboard mainly in studio or home as myself, it is a great choice!!!

I will preface this review by saying that the piano itself is superb as a substitute to a real acoustic / grand piano. The action is excellent, and it feels very pleasant to play. However, what makes the action so good also makes it fallible and thus feels like purchasing a long-term problem.
My own MP11SE displayed early issues only 18 months after purchasing it, and the support I received both from Kawai and Thomann was very disappointing.
After reaching out to Thomann about my piano’s issues, they arranged for a technician to come see the piano.

He replaced all the slip tapes in my piano and he was very pleasant. However, his visit fixed one problem and left several more.
Two keys now have friction against each other (caused by the wood they are built with having splinters), and it is quite distracting to hear it each time I play a piece which involves those keys.
I let the technician know immediately while he was at my house and he told me that "slight noises are part of the normal operation of a piano" and while I agree somewhat, the noise wasn't there before.
Furthermore, after practicing a section marked "pianissimo" I noticed a high D was significantly heavier to press than the other keys. This prompted a more thorough inspection, and I found that in total three keys were affected. Their action is evidently deteriorated, and they are hard to press and slow to return to their original position. This is extremely concerning and incompatible with proper expression of dynamics in certain pieces.
I reached out to Kawai, who conveniently referred me back to my dealer (Thomann).
I reached out to Thomann, who told me that they wouldn’t be able to have a solution before I was due to relocate. Bear in mind that between the original outreach for the piano’s issues and today, almost three months have passed. Three months in which my piano significantly deteriorated due to the actions taken by the official channels, only 18 months after purchasing the piano.
In summary, the piano is excellent but it comes with a fair amount of headaches that owners will have to be prepared to deal with. Naturally, no one who spends this amount of money on proper equipment wants to have these problems, so buyers beware.

excellent instrument with a great variety in settings including brilliant and sharp to mellower/ lounge-ier piano sounds even though the namesake Shigeru setting is actually really all I need. I may imagine this but it sounds very kawai-esque, which was quite the transition from having played on yamaha stage pianos. It took some getting used to but I mean - that's to be expected when getting a new instrument I think.
It comes with the usual other instrument settings, the strings are "okay" (to be fair, i have yet to find one setting that could do a string section any justice so I might be biased here, it's still one of the better ones but yeah, that is literally the only part I'd not expect too much of) but every (other) setting is tastefully made and usable. There are even some fun ones that can be layered or used with a split keyboard which is great for layering tracks. I personally mainly use the piano sounds but I can imagine someone enjoying the other ones as well.

The keyboard plays naturally and the combination of different sounds and the option to change the responsiveness of the keys allows to completely transform the playing experience.

Downsides:
Pressing the sustain-pedal creates a shattering sound that is virtually only audible using headphones but still irritating. I haven't found a way yet to turn it off. At 34kg it is quite heavy and cases take some time to manufacture.
The multitude of ways to tweak the different settings is at first quite overwhelming but the price point should have indicated already that this instrument would be overkill for a beginner anyway.