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Most helpful customer reviews 46 of 47 people found the following review helpful. went around stores and found good deals, some really cheap ones too, but most of them were either too sophisticated for her rather young age, or their small to medium size keys were still too big for her tiny fingers. since i’ve been playing keyboards since ancient times myself, i wanted something really ‘fit’ for her little finger size as well as very simple, “as plain as a piano” so to say: no rhythms or preset sounds or dandy candy stuff, not even saved songs; just a plain musical instrument with one tempered sound, again, pretty much similar to a piano … and i also wanted it to be *polyphonic* too! i searched around the Internet for quite a while to find my desired item. and i found this one, which looked fine for my child. there was no mention of it being polyphonic though: neither in the seller’s ad nor on people’s reviews but i just went for it no matter what as it was getting late for her birthday already! the price was also quite affordable for me although the shipment cost me somewhat extra but i didn’t want to drive around spending on gas and mileage either … and guess what: the instrument turned out to be both the right thing in terms of size and simplicity of sound and operation (it’s always on, just like a real piano is!) and above all, it is also a polyphonic instrument! yoopi! now, my daughter can experience using more than one finger at the same time and hear more than one note sound at the same time too, which i consider very important educationally. and the voice, although not quite a piano, is still fairly close enough if you don’t expect something this small and low-priced to do miracles for you the only problem i have found so far is that when playing the fifth note along four others and on a true scale, say C + E + G + C + E (a C Major chord) then the second E (the fifth note) sounds badly out of tune! i’m guessing that may be related to ‘slow’ battery perhaps since the instrument arrived with batteries installed and ALWAYS ON as i mentioned already: no On/Off switch, no volume control but the sound is neither high nor low thus adequate enough to let the child enjoy playing while not hurting others in the same room. (the battery compartment is also ‘safe’ for the child as user has to use a screw driver to open it when replacing the batteries.) will have to test that later and besides, even in this shape and the way it is, my little child won’t be able to play ‘sophisticated’ chords like that at such an early age anyway, so this is a great instrument for her and she likes it too! 7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. 5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. But now I have read, (in another reviewer’s review), that this tiny “toy” keyboard is POLYPHONIC! That is, you can play more than one note at a time on it! This other reviewer said one can play FIVE notes at a time on it! Gosh — except for my regular, old-fashioned piano, I’ve never been able to do THAT on a keyboard before! (I havr several “toy” keyboards — all far bigger, and unweildly, (albeit with more notes), than this one, and one “pro” keyboard, which I have not yet been able to use. Maybe it will allow me to play five notes at a time…I can’t tell yet.) But a small, polyphonic “toy” keyboard will be INVALUABLE to me, if I want to figure out 11th, 12th, and 13th(????) chords for my musical compositions! And, as I have said, it is SO small, it even allows for my music composition book to stay on the table with it!) “Toy” piano keyboards are, for children, toys indeed. But a “toy” keyboard need not be JUST a toy! For me, it’s a serious music composing tool! Yes, there is no-on-and off switch, but that matters little to me. Just keep a screwdriver handy, to take out the batteries when the keyboard will not be used a lot. But I’m beginning to realize that those periods will, for me, probably be |
small in size, great in use!
in fact it is of a good build way above its price range!
Smaller than I thought
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