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Originally Posted by Halcyon
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Very shiny.
Back when we bought ours it was all about polyphony (how many notes it could play simultaneously). These days it’s all about partial sustain and harmonics that really do make the thing sound like an actual piano. And you should be able to get that model for under £800 too.
I also like the compactness of that one; ours is a bit of a monster by modern standards and presently lives in the garage as we just don’t have room for it in the lounge any more. They seem to have been able to make the chassis on this one a bit slimmer by integrating all the function selections into the actual piano keyboard itself rather than having a separate bank of controls above the keyboard. In fact I’m actually tempted to go measure up and see if we could fit one of these in the house - the weighting on our old keyboard has suffered from years of enthusiastic attention by the kids, and especially the eldest who composes in GarageBand, including his percussion …