This piano is creative and fun! With its interactive lights and captivating sounds, it becomes an exciting discovery adventure for toddlers and young children. (As an adult, I had some fun with it too.) It encourages experimentation and makes learning fun. The toy itself is well-constructed and durable. It can handle both creative exploration and the occasional tumble, making it a reliable choice for children.

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I've never seen anything quite like this before, with its illuminating wooden 'screen.' Even as an adult, I found it rather fascinating, in fact. It's pricey for a toy, in my opinion, but could be an engaging gift for a special occasion like Christmas or a birthday. Here's what I found.The pixel piano comes with three settings for different activities. Some of this is difficult to describe well, but I will do my best. First, it functions as a little toy piano. Each key has its own color, and when you press one, the note plays, and a bar of that color appears on the screen above the key. If you tap the key and release instantly, the note is short and the bar of color is brief. If you hold the key down, the note will sustain (though not indefinitely), and the bar of color will sort of flutter at the top, as the note hangs trembling in the air. If you tap the key once, and then again immediately, the first note remains visible, while the new note overlaps it but further down, since it's starting from the same place, but a second later. In this way, a child is getting visual feedback which reinforces the audio. They can 'see' the music in terms of how low or high the note is (left to right), and how long it lasts (bottom to top). The music sounds the way I would expect an electronic keyboard to sound. In other words, the notes seem true, they sound accurate, but the quality of the tone does not match exactly how a genuine instrument would sound.Second, there is a sort of 'play along with the piano' game, where bars of color travel down the screen from the top to the bottom, a bit like the shapes in Tetris. In this case, the bar illuminates over a specific key and in that key's color, and travels down toward that point. Your task is to press the key. If you do, the note will sound, but if you press any other key, nothing happens. You only get music if you press the correct one. These visual cues will continue, and as you press the keys in order, you're technically playing a song. When you get to the end of the piece, the screen comes alight with colors, and the piano plays a selection of music for you.Lastly, the third function is sort of like a digital, animated Lite Brite. In this mode, each key is tied to a specific animal, and when you press a key, that animal will appear on the screen, created by large squares in various colors. Up until now, we've only seen them traveling in columns of a single color, but now the colors are wherever they need to be to create light-up illustrations of a cat, dog, duck, frog, and so on. But the images are not static. All of them move, to a greater or lesser extent, and make their particular cry. For example, the elephant moves its trunk, and trumpets. The lion opens its mouth, exposing large fangs, and roars. The bluebird travels across the screen from right to left, chirping. A young child might not be able to decode what they're seeing, because the images, though impressively detailed on the whole, are yet constructed from enormous pixels, essentially, of almost an inch square. This is somewhat limiting, of course. They're also moving, which means that the picture is changing before one's eyes. A toddler might not look at the provided image and think, 'That's obviously supposed to be a cow.' It may just be a wash of light and colors to them, but they will hear the lowing, which should clue them in. 'Oh, it's mooing. It must be a cow.'The unit itself seems solid and sturdy, with a plastic back (or bottom?) and wooden face. The colors of the keys are all distinct to a person of average vision, and a sliding button on the side powers the piano off and on. There are two options for On, according to your chosen volume. I was using the piano at On-Low, and thought it was perfect, but if necessary or desired, there is an On-High setting with louder audio. After a couple minutes of inactivity, the unit seems to go to sleep, or else turn off completely. Just in case, it's probably best to turn it off properly when not in use, to preserve the battery life. Speaking of which, I was pleasantly surprised to find that the piano came with batteries included and, in fact, already installed.Overall, I don't really have any downsides to this. It will be too simplistic for most older children to invest much time in it, and the price is not insignificant, as I mentioned above. But within those parameters, this could be a good investment. If your child is a suitable age for something like this, and you have the means, I definitely think it's worth your consideration. It is totally unique in my experience. It is fun and engaging, with music, colors, and light; you can play music on it, either guided or freeform, and it can play music to you; and you get the animated animals with their sound effects. It's pretty nifty, and seems solidly constructed, and with the batteries already inside it is ready for play right out of the box. Recommended to your consideration. For me, it's an easy five stars.

This toy is somewhat of an oddity between wood and natural materials and lights and sounds. It's executed quite nicely and is pretty fun to play with for younger kids.There are a few modes available, all of which play sounds and show lights on the "screen". There's an animal mode where pushing keys shows a pixelated picture of an animal accompanied by the noise it makes, a standard mode which is just a piano keyboard, and a play along with a song type mode. All modes sound good and look good, too.Batteries are easy to replace and you can actually control the volume level on this thing! The unit has also held up to constant play.

This piano toy sounds great for starters but it is also adorable. All of my kids love to play on this thing and the older ones are still trying to figure out how the lights shine through the wood. It's a well made toy that is fun for kids of all ages especially the younger ones.