What is a chord, casio chord and fingered chord?

A chord is 3 notes that are played at the same time, and so as not to get into too much detail sound good together. This takes practice to play properly.

Fingered chord forces a student to play the chord properly by only sounding if a chord is played.

Casio Chord allows the chord to sound (3 notes) by only pressing 1 key. So for someone just learning only 1 key need sto be pressed to get the sound of 3.

What is MIDI and General MIDI?

Musical Instrument Digital Interface language by which keyboards, other MIDI instruments, and computers can universally communicate. When a note is played on a keyboard, the computer registers what note was played, how long it was held and what the tone number of the instrument. Then when it connects to another keyboard and played back it will play the same.

General MIDI was developed so keyboard manufacturers would all have there own numbering system so someone would use a Casio piano tone to record a sound and when the song was played back on another manufacturer product it would sound like a guitar. So GM (General MIDI) took 128 tones and they are all in the same number so that it plays properly.


What is sostenuto and sustain?

Sostenuto sustains notes only which are depressed at the time the pedal is depressed. Note that the sostenuto pedal should not be confused with the much more commonly used sustain pedal, which undamps all the strings on the piano.

What is DSP?

Digital Signal Processing allows some keyboards to change the sound of a tone. They can make it deeper, or cysle, or sound like in a cathedral. Then the user can save these as a user tone and play these anytime.

Where can I get a manual for the Privia Piano?

Please click this link.