Casio introduces new digital pianos and keyboards - Music Marketplace - Casio Inc

American Music Teacher, Oct-Nov, 2003

Casio, Inc., 570 Mr. Pleasant Ave., Dover, NJ 07801; (973) 361-5400; pr@casio.com, www.casio.com. $169.99 for CTK-491; $269.99 for CTK-591; $319.99 for CTK-691. $1,499.99 for AP-33, AP-31 and AP-38; $569.99 for WK-3000; $315.00 for WK-3500.

Casio, Inc. recently introduced three full-size portable keyboards with enhanced performance features, three new digital pianos for the home market and two new keyboards.

The new keyboard line-up includes the CTK-491, which is a five-octave, sixty-one-key full-size keyboard. It is designed for beginners and features a twelve-note polyphonic MIDI keyboard with on-screen LCD, music staff and finger icons display. The CTK-591 is a sixty-one-key touch-sensitive full-size twenty-four-note polyphonic keyboard with LCD and MIDI. The CTK-691 is a thirty-two-note polyphonic General MIDI touch-sensitive keyboard that features Advanced ZPI Sound Source, Drawbar Organ, Stereo Piano Sound and Internet Data Expansion.

Casio also recently introduced the WK-3000 and WK-3500 keyboards, featuring SmartMedia Data Storage; Internet Data Expansion System that lets users configure the keyboard to their specific needs using waveform and other data; and advanced ZPI sound source, drawbar organ, stereo piano and more.

The WK-3000 keyboard features seventy-six full-size keys, is touch sensitive (with on/off), is thirty-two-note polyphonic and MIDI compatible. The WK-3500 keyboard has the same features and functions as the WK-3000. It also has a built-in floppy disk drive that supports playback of commercially available SMF data and a line-out jack that can be hooked up to a PA system.

The new home model digital pianos include the AP-33, which features an eighty-eight note naturally scaled hammer action keyboard with three levels of touch sensitivity, and is sixty-four-note polyphonic. The AP-31 has all the features of the AP-33 with two separate pedals for dedicated damper, soft/sostenuto effects. The AP-38 is an eighty-eight-note naturally scaled hammer action keyboard with stereo sampled dual-element ZPI sound source. It is sixty-four-note polyphonic and features sixteen tones including grand piano 1/2, bright piano and honky-tonk piano, among other features.

For more information contact Casio, Inc.