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Most tempting.... looking forward to trying one. Looks like an excellent cost/performance ratio!

Wonder what the action feels like? If that is good, I might have to invest in it.

Mike, do you know if the PX5s will be available in Australia? I was most peeved to discover that the XW-P1 wasn't being sold here.

88 key triple sensor hammer action, 256 poly and only 24 ponds ? The PX-3 was a great controller and had some pretty good onboard sounds as well. This ups the ante a bit ....except my god it's one ugly beast

It is sold in Australia ... just took a while to get there.

I found a video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfIMTbOg20I

Now I want a PX-5! Joe Sample can make any keyboard magic.

Dr. P, you'd be surprised at what you can accomplish with a can of black spray-paint....

K.

Your just jealous of my black nord ....

Hey mike,

Does the 5S carry the same weighted keys and keybed as the new Privias? Does it have after touch and lastly and most important when will it ship?

Thank you for your time! I'm between this and the new kurzweil sp5-8

Yes it is a weighted board. PX-5S is in the Privia family which all have weighted scaled hammer action. Casio just makes one keybed for all it's digitals and that includes the Celvianos.

Thanks for clarifying galaxy. I guess this would mean no after touch since the other models don't. Still wondering about the release date.

Shipping is late March, early April.

And as to the point early on in this thread about Mike hand-assembling these - it seems he has been, kind of! He's been spending sleepless nights programming the EPs, and they are beginning to sound very good indeed.

So, yes, thank you Mike, and I may well be another eager customer.

Oii march -April is so far away

@Mike Martin

Nice video for Kraft. Can you say what pedal unit you were using? It seemed to have two pedals. And was that the Yamaha set list app?

So now its a real machine and people have seen it, can someone tell us what the mysterious slot thing is on the back that we were all pontificating on wildly?

Battery slot ....

Wow, great to see Joe Sample tearing it up!

For those interested, the name of this tune is "Put it where you want it", originally from the Crusaders' '1' album (the first recorded without the band's 'Jazz' prefix). Here's a pretty cool (albeit heavily edited) live performance of the tune from 1974 (the Ali-Fraiser 'Rumble in the Jungle' concert):



I really love the the Jazz Crusaders late 60s and Crusaders early 70s sound...it's a shame there are not more live recordings and videos from this period.

Anyway, back on topic, the PX-5S sounds pretty impressive. Definitely going to have to seek this board out once it's launched in Japan.



Seriously?

James
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Yup, Mike Martin says in the video that it can run on eight AA batteries...

At least noone saw it coming. And I can't imagine who would want it, either. Never seen a piano busker. Maybe it's a Japanese thing?

EDIT: By the way, the Internet claims that AA batteries were introduced in 1907. Who knew.

Yes, it's common to see youngsters (and sometimes oldsters) playing and singing out in public in Japan, especially outside train stations. Often these artists have their own cult following, selling CDs of their recordings. It's pretty cool. Definitely one of the things I love about this unique country.

James
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I heard Mike has been busy hand-winding transformers for the power adapters and rolling foil and plastic for the capacitors. He's a very handy guy.