


It is muddy, muted, with no tonal dynamics and the piano sound from one key to the next changes character in some parts of the keyboard like the piano sound was taken from different pianos with different tonal characters and placed in one keyboard. But the actual piano sound is worst of all. The pedals are very noisy when pressing down on them or releasing them after pressing down and the pedal sound does not have the standard half-damper pedaling which simulates what a real damper pedal can do with the piano sound. The key action is clunky, noisy, and made poorly. The name "Brioso" is actually a Spanish name that means "lively or bright" but this model is as far from lively and bright as a piano can get and still be a PSO. There is an old saying that goes "you can try to put lipstick on a pig but at the end of the day it is still a pig." The Brioso is definitely not a pig but in terms of thinking this model comes close at all to a piano is wishful thinking.

I call that kind of piano a PSO aka: Piano Shaped Object. It may look like a piano and have a nice cabinet, but the piano playing experience you will get out of it is just plain bad as compared to most digital pianos in this price range and especially as compared to any real acoustic piano. By "bad" I mean it has not changed in any way from the previous (and still current) Overture 2 model which is a very disappointing digital piano that looks good on the outside but not good on the inside. Unfortunately and in my opinion, this model should have been killed off rather than given a longer life because it is so bad. Pretty tricky they are but it certainly can give a model a longer life if they just rename it and sell it in other places. However the new Williams Brioso is not really new at all because what Williams did is take a prior older model called the Overture 2, which is still sold in Guitar Center stores, and then simply renamed it Brioso ($699US internet discount price) and is offering it for sale at the Guitar Center affiliate stores but not actually in the Guitar Center stores themselves. In fact the Williams brand is made in China and the Chinese company makes digital pianos under other names as well. REVIEW - Williams BRIOSO Digital Piano - NOT Recommended - The Willams digital piano brand is exclusively sold by Guitar Center stores and its affiliates (which Guitar Center owns) including Music & Arts, Woodwind-Brasswind, and other affiliate stores.
