I've been taking lessons for about 6 months now and my pedaling is WAY behind the rest of my skills. At first I thought this was simply coordination and things would click after some serious practice. After much experimentation I realise trying to pedal on my digital is totally uncomfortable because of my anatomy.

This makes practice - and just any pedaling at all for that matter difficult. My legs are long and the only way I can have my foot on the pedal and have my arms where they should be (perhaps I have short arms too!?) is to the have my lower leg at least vertical or an angle towards my body. In short, if I sit back so it's reasonable to pedal I can't reach the keyboard, if I come forward, my knee is literally pressed against the underside of the keys. Changing the bench height has little effect.

I've tried different pianos and the roland digital I have is a litte shorter in height of the keyboard that most acoustics.
Anyone faced this situation? I've studied videos of tall pianists but they seem to sit much further back than me, or insanely low on the bench.

The only solution I can think of is to raise the height of the piano (it seems to help) and get a separate sustain pedal which I can position more comfortably. The only problem is the roland f-110 I have uses a strange 8 pin cable for the triple pedal that it comes with. Anyone know if there is a separate pedal available with this connection?

It's all very confusing. I'm not freakishly tall, just a fairly long leg.

The one F-110 I played in a store seemed to have the keyboard slightly closer to the floor (lower), compared to most acoustic pianos and even to a couple of other DP's they had.

From your description it sounds like what you need is the bench to be a good bit higher to keep your legs at a comfortable angle and then the piano a fair bit higher to match the new bench height.

Couldn't you put some casters cups or coaster type things under the piano to raise it up an inch or two?

That's what I plan to do (no other ideas so far) - the pedals are connected by a strip of wood, so it would raise they pedals also. Putting a book underneath the pedal and I would be back to square one. That's why I need a separate pedal I guess.

Same problem here, 6'4" foot tall, 34" inside leg, I have difficulty getting comfortable whilst trying to pedal on compact digital pianos. If you measure the distance from the front of the pedal of the F110 to the front of the keyboard you may find it's a lot shorter distance than that of a regular sized piano, I have no difficulty when playing my Kawai CN33 but I do when playing my granddaughters compact Kawai CL35, I have to sit so far from the piano when my foot is comfortably on the pedal I have to stretch forwards to reach the keys. However, I often attend lecture recitals given by a prominent pianist, a professor of music at our local university, and his playing position is totally different from the accepted classic position, his bench is low, so he has to reach up to the keys, he sits so close to the keyboard his elbows are protruding behind his torso, additionally, his shin is vertical to the pedals, he has only the side of his foot on the sustain pedal, it works for him. BTW, he plays a Steinway Concert Grand Piano.

I to am tall and dont have enough room to use the pedals not with out getting a sore foot, I am not upto the point where i am using the pedal yet but I was thinking about raise the piano up using wood, but i think the pedals have to touch the floor when pressed .