Forget about your useless SD1plus, pathetic Genesys Pro, and crappy open ended software arrangers based on windows; the highlight of the Frankfurt Show was Casio!

Here are unedited and exact transcripts from issue 403, 2003 English brochure:

quote:

Ensemble Style Piano PL40R... grand piano sound exitingly life like timbres all the way to the gentle and brittle.

WK1800 - quote: "Medicine Against Indecision"

CTK671 - quote: "A Netboard for surfing the World Wide Waves"

CTK573 - descriptive quote: "Poor Elise! All that toil and drudgery with those countless ebony and ivory bars. And that witch of a piano teacher!"

MA150 - quote "a solid brick of value"

SA76 - quote: "Keyboards for kids. SA67 has extra large keys for small children's hands."

CTK481 - "let it all out"

quote: "See me, Feel me, Play Me!"

AL100R - quote " a complete novelty in the world of the keys"

"and if rhythm should be on the menu... the most luxurious way to travel to the light."

PL40R - quote : "Rock Me, Amadeus!"

AP25 - quote: "senior value"

LK55 - quote: "Top or Flop!"

"Depending on skill, it offers grades bravo, great, not bad, try again! With such statements to support efforts, motivation is guaranteed!

As soon as you know everthing off patt, select the sing-along feature to show your board who has the final say! O sole mio..."

LK43 - quote: "the cockpit is easy to operate"

LD80 - quote: "a drummer's bounty"

AP38 - quote "individual sound sources for weak and strong strokes"

"such valuable entrails deserve a correspondingly elegant appearance"

MZ2000 - quote: "sequencer is SMF data compatible (with some limitation)"

"Zygotech Polynomial Interpolation - optimised data compression and a polynomial interpolation based waveform playback process combine to produce... sounds"

and my all time favourite:

CTK573 - main descriptive title: "East of Boredom"


People! throw the rest of your rubbish away... THIS is the gear!

I fully intend to keep my rubbish. It's all I have and I love it, so there!

Bryan

You've got to be joking, right technicsplayer? I think when you searched for the Musikmesse URL link you evidently got the one that was held 2 or 3 years ago. PS: I personally owned the Casio WK 1800 and I can tell you straight up that it doesn't hold a candle to my Yamaha PSR 2000.

Ha Ha Ha LOL lol Hee Hee Heee Ha Haaaa Whew!! That's rich. Maybe someday Casio will get with it and start producing some world class Arrangers but at the moment there basically the bottom rung of the totem pole in that arena and I would imagine most other arenas. The MZ 2000 was there best attempt so far but it is way inferior than todays top Arrangers. But if you are on a tight budget and a beginner then I think the WK 1800/1600 would be a good starter Keyboard.

PS: Please don't take my laughing out loud outburst personally. I am not laughing at you but at the blatant mis-information you stated and I'm thinking your either not aware the information is outdated and not in correlation with what is currently known and true in regards to Arrranger Keyboards or you maybe work for Casio or your just joking around.

Best regards,
Mike

Come on folks, of course he is pulling your leg!


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Roy-Andrè

Truth is truth and words are words and never shall the twain meet.

Grandpa Doug

Something to be said for good marketing.

Is that what you call it?

Grandpa Doug

pretty good guess, since as I said these are all real quotes from the real 2003 Casio English brochure, issue 403, from the real 2003 Frankfurt Music Messe

I'm off to buy my "East of Boredom" keyboard!

What a relief!!! That's a load off my mind for sure! For awhile I thought we had a renegade amongst the troops

Best regards,
Mike

I always thought that Casio is why Arranger Keybords always get a bad Rap thru the years.