Casio offers new PRIVIA digital piano.

Casio offers new PRIVIA digital piano. Casio, Inc., 570 Mr. Pleasant Ave., Dover, NJ 07801; (937) 361-5400. www.casio.com. $1,099.95. Casio, Inc. has enhanced its PRIVIA digital piano A digital piano is a modern electronic musical instrument designed to serve primarily as an alternative to a traditional piano, both in the way it feels to play and in the sound produced. Some digital pianos are also designed to look like an acoustic piano. line with model PX-400R, which has a built-in stand, 256 tone selections, an eighty-song library, a large LCD screen and other features. The PX-400R's digital tones range from pianos and strings to wind instrument and synth synth?n.1. Informal A synthesizer.2. A style of light popular music made with synthesizers. Also called synth-pop. sounds. Casio's new HL (Highly-compressed Large-waveform) Sound Source audio processing chip delivers authentic sound quality by employing a proprietary dual-element sound source that accurately reproduces the sound response of acoustic instruments. The PX-400R includes a built-in library of eighty favorite tunes, from piano classics to jazz, to better help users learn to play, as well as 120 rhythms. The PX-400R also features a large backlit An LCD screen that has its own light source from the back of the screen, making the background brighter and characters appear sharper. LCD, a 5,200-note capacity song recording mode, a USB port A USB socket on a computer or peripheral device into which a USB cable is plugged. See USB. for saving and downloading songs, a Smart Media card slot A socket for inserting a printed circuit board or a PC Card (CardBus card). See PC Card. for easy song storage, eight digital effects and a MIDI in/out port. For more information contact Casio, Inc.