Casio SA-76 44-Key Mini Personal Keyboard

I wanted to get a keyboard for my 5-year old son on his birthday, and I spent good amount of time to decide whether to go for a low-end 88-key (~$200) or this $49 44-key keyboard. Hope my review saves some time of others. We have been using it for couple of months now, and the features which we love are: (1) The sound is loud and clear. (2) It is very light weight (3) We did not buy adapter, and didn't have to replace battery since we bought it (about 4 months). (4). Features (2) and (3) make it very convenient to play the keyboard at any location and in any position! (on the sofa, on the bed, on the carpet, etc.) (5) It has 99 sounds, which gives a good exposure to a young child. Maybe they all are not good for playing a song, but the range of sounds expand the child's horizon (6) There is one push button by which one can toggle between piano mode and organ mode, which sounds similar to Indian harmonium (reed organ), and this feature is very handy if you are exploring both piano and harmonium (7) One can use headphone, and can play it silently, useful if you're exploring 'music theory' in the middle of the night! All in all this is great keyboard to introduce a child as well as an adult to piano, to determine if someone has enough interest to invest into a costlier full-fledged keyboard in future. Also if a child or an adult can play other instrument, he/she can translate and correlate the music theories he/she already knows. Some additional comments: we printed out rhymes with piano notation written in letters (A, B, C, ..., and not in staff notation) for our child, and he enjoyed it greatly. Also we bought piano stickers and put on it (had to cut short the stickers to accommodate). The bright stickers look good and they have staff notation on them as well.

I bought this for my son as he really enjoyed playing the real piano's we had at the last two houses. we rented. What Luck! So, I got him this to use and learn on. Everyone thinks it's great I can't get the adults off of it but I noticed that the lady with training kept hitting two keys with her pinky. The keys are a little smaller condensing the keyboard. Which they tell you up front and I knew that. I am just confirming it is true and what an adult could expect to encounter. The Beat keys are not easy to use but it doesn't stop my son! He is 7 and there are way more functions on here than I am able to cope with so the learning curve is steep. That also means sound combinations are virtually infinate! I really think Casio has made a great product for young adults to learn on and they will learn about how Full Size keyboards can be used. 10 Stars!

Thanks to the reviewers and musicians below, I purchased this tiny keyboard in order to practice scales etc away from my gigantic keyboard- No way can I drag out that thing every day or for a few minutes of practice! It’s just what I needed to help me squeeze in some more practice time. It was very inexpensive for my purposes. I also have very little hands and this helps me also. It is polyphonic - a few keys play a once although limited in the fullness of the sound.I might even take it to work to practice on my lunch break, it’s so small that it’s very portable. If you have big hands it may not work for you.For a kid just starting out with lessons it would be good too. There are earphones too, moms. You can buy a common electric cord also. It’s too nice for a toddler to bang around.On some advanced topics:Some of the reviewers said that there wasn’t a capacity for changing the tuning. It is clearly in the manual how. But I purchased a very expensive key board to reach middle eastern semitones and even that was very tricky. I think you need a computer connected synthesizer for that or a $4000 dollar keyboard from Corg I believe. Don’t try to reach microtones on anything other than that or a fret less stringed instrument.I am happy that I have this for ability to practice scales and melodies.

I am primarily an instrument musician and long time student of keyboard classical type music. My studies now include a broad range of keyboard platforms including this little guy - requiring some skillfulness for the adult hand, but worth placing the Casio on top of the keys of your present instrument for a little diversion. But, the quality of the organ, violin and guitarsounds are a rich tapestry of keyboard development built into the chip here. A little wood supports the sa-76 off of the keys of the primary keyboard. The keys are a basic contact type so not much in the way of pianoforte expression. I use separate metronome and recommend the sa-76. The little LCD screen might be too fragile for very young musicians. If it gets touched too hard, it could leak out and might not legible after that point. Recommend an extra cover over the display. I want to see the upgrade for this after the production switches to it's successor. Here an adjunct keyboard is friend for a music student.

Muy buen producto. Buen sonido y resistente. Perfecto para ser uno de los primeros clientes nutrimentos para tus hijos. (Asegúrate de tener una fuente de poder porque viene sin ella). Recomendado

I haven't given this Christmas present to the 5 year old yet, but am passing on a quick assessment in case others are looking at it as a holiday present. My first impression is that the 5 year old beginner will love it. Lots of music options and good sound. It is more than a toy, but not sophisticated enough to compete with his 9 year old brother's more advanced keyboard (a consideration in a household where items are passed down). It does not come with batteries, but the battery compartment is easy to open and insert 6 AA batteries. The keyboard was well packaged and included the promised power supply, headset, and CD. I almost missed seeing the CD, which was at the bottom of the box containing all of the items, so be careful that it doesn't get lost during the wrapping/unwrapping. I'll update this review in the event that something goes wrong after the present is given, but so far, I'm very happy with the purchase.