Pha-4 standard in a wooden cabinet... experience

I like Roland FP-10 action but I don't like his plastic cabinet. So I made a wooden piano cabinet in witch I set the Pha-4 standard action of my FP-10, dimensions are close to kawai vpc1. I put all electronic and HP in my new piano, and I even added red felt on back of keys. Roland HP sound is a little better with wood than plastic but not good, so I use it as a midi keyboard with pianoteq and monitors or headphones.
Unfortunately I didn't succeed with the painting of cabinet, I'd like a gloss sensation but it is difficult to do.

Now I have to make again the stand... And I will imagine I play on a real piano...

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I like Roland FP-10 action but I don't like his plastic cabinet. So I made a wooden piano cabinet in witch I set the Pha-4 standard action of my FP-10, dimensions are close to kawai vpc1. I put all electronic and HP in my new piano, and I even added red felt on back of keys. Roland HP sound is a little better with wood than plastic but not good, so I use it as a midi keyboard with pianoteq and monitors or headphones.
Unfortunately I didn't succeed with the painting of cabinet, I'd like a gloss sensation but it is difficult to do.

Now I have to make again the stand... And I will imagine I play on a real piano.

snurrfint wrote:

Hello. Very nice piano-shell. Thanks for sharing.

I just bought a fp-10 too and Im doing something similar to your project. Im not building a shell. Im actually going to install the fp10 into a real upright. My old grandma's piano to be exact. Im in the process of removing everything inside the piano so that I can get more space and lower weight.

Then Im going to turn the soundboard into a huge panel speaker, and install an audio interface so that I can hook up my iPad to it and run pianoteq.

It's a great project, congratulations. Let us know how it progresses.
Like you I'd like to connect my piano to an iPad but I know absolutely nothing about iPads. I'd like to buy a second-hand iPad but which generation should I buy, wich year? I'd like to connect my midi keyboard, my USB interface and the Audiofront midi interface with a USB C hub. At the same time, I'd like the iPad to be powered by the mains. Do you know which iPad allows such a USB C connection?
Thanks

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snurrfint wrote:

YvesTh wrote:

It's a great project, congratulations. Let us know how it progresses.
Like you I'd like to connect my piano to an iPad but I know absolutely nothing about iPads. I'd like to buy a second-hand iPad but which generation should I buy, wich year? I'd like to connect my midi keyboard, my USB interface and the Audiofront midi interface with a USB C hub. At the same time, I'd like the iPad to be powered by the mains. Do you know which iPad allows such a USB C connection?
Thanks

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Im using the iPad air M1. That one has a usb-c connector instead of lightning which is nice. But It doesn't matter to much as you can use a usb-c to lightning adapter to achieve the same results with basically any iPad. You can even use an iPhone.

I only use like 10% of the CPU with the M1 ipad Air so I doubt you will have no issues with performance even on an old iPad.

You can connect the ipad to a usb hub and then to an audio interface no problem. My yamaha CSP-170 which Im using at home does come with a built in audio interface so I only need one cable for connecting the ipad. The audio is sent back to the instrument and out throught the piano speakers, it even charges the ipad. I will attempt to achieve the same effect with this project.

Thank you very much for the information... If I've understood correctly, your iPad would be from 2022 and 5th generation. And mains power can therefore be supplied via the usb hub. This model for exemple : https://www.backmarket.fr/fr-fr/p/ipad-...7198?l=11#

My piano (Wooden-FP10-Pianoteq) is nearly finished. It works well with my new Ipad air 2022. Thank you Snurrfint for your advice