Mon 12 Jun 2006
New Toy
Posted at 14:01 +1000
For a few months now, I have been thinking about getting a decent electronic keyboard. Five years ago, I used to play the piano a lot. These days, I no longer have a piano and I am grossly out of practice. Plus, there are some things I want to play around with where a musical background would be nice.
Last month turned out to be a bit better than expected, financially, for work, so I decided that I would use some of the extra to buy a reward. I've been doing the rounds of some local music shops and looking at manuals and reviews on the web. Just had never gotten around to walking into a shop, putting down the credit card and saying "fill her up, please". This morning, I gave in to temptation and bought a nice little Casio PX-310. It seemed to be at the right point when balancing functionality (lots of sounds and a full size keyboard, primarily; all the rhythms and recording space isn't really necessary for me) and price.
88 keys, "fully weighted", says the manual, but I'm not sure that is completely correct: it feels a little light, but much better than a non-weighted keyboard. I'm a happy camper.
Since I had the camera out and was in the room I use as my office, here's the uglier side of the story: the mess that is my computer area. Putting it here might shame me into actually doing something about this. There are disadvantages to living alone. One being that things like this slip from very tidy (my preference), to a little messy to blow-torch territory without anybody smacking me around the head about it.
