{"id":10,"date":"2004-06-24T21:21:12","date_gmt":"2004-06-25T03:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/?p=10"},"modified":"2004-06-24T21:21:12","modified_gmt":"2004-06-25T03:21:12","slug":"cheapo-piano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/posts\/2004\/06\/24\/cheapo-piano\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheapo piano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Costco currently has Casio&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.casio.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=products.detail&#038;catalog=Music%20Instruments&#038;section=Digital%20Pianos&#038;product=PX%2D100\">Privia PX-100<\/a> electronic piano on sale, with a stand, for about CDN$700.  I picked one up yesterday for my increasingly-crowded basement studio.<\/p>\n<p>Ordinarily, I wouldn&#8217;t consider buying a Casio instrument.  But this one has 88 keys, velocity sensitive, and weighted for a fairly good piano-like feel.  Its built-in samples sound like ass, but I don&#8217;t care, because it has MIDI output.  I run the MIDI into my computer, where it goes into Steinberg&#8217;s &#8216;The Grand SE&#8217; VST instrument, which sounds very good.<\/p>\n<p>I ask you, where else can you get a decent-feeling 88-key weighted MIDI keyboard and stand for $700?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Costco currently has Casio&#8217;s Privia PX-100 electronic piano on sale, with a stand, for about CDN$700. I picked one up yesterday for my increasingly-crowded basement studio. Ordinarily, I wouldn&#8217;t consider buying a Casio instrument. But this one has 88 keys, velocity sensitive, and weighted for a fairly good piano-like feel. Its built-in samples sound like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}