Technics digital piano

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Just picked up this bad boy at the local Salvation Army:

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It's a Technics SX-PX-55M. I think all Technics keyboards went out of production 10 years ago, and this could easily be 20 years old. If it breaks, I'm screwed. But... It all works! All the keys, all the other buttons, the speakers, the headphone jack, the midi out. Even the wood veneer is in pretty good shape, especially after some furniture polish. I cleaned the keys with a damp rag, but I might try to clean them some more somehow. Also came with a bench. The built in sounds are sort of meaningless to me - PCM of course, but they're not bad - actually sounded better than the two real console pianos that were there.

I've been wanting to have a weighted key midi controller for a while, and this is a little heavy, but definitely fills the bill. Also, I want my daughter to learn to play the piano, and now I can force her to learn in an overbearing, future-therapy-need-causing way - I'm so excited!
 
Hahaha, nice score. When my wife moved in, she came with a nice Roland digital piano. It now lives in my studio, and is certainly my best MIDI controller :)
 
It's nice that it all works, and that you have a young generation through which you can vicariously experience those moments of musical discovery! Get out your ruler and start practicing smacking knuckles with it :D
 
I can confirm that the Technics is a great piano. I bought my secondhand around ten years ago and it has performed flawlessly. The guy I bought it off was offloading it because he had just bought a new Kawai. He reckoned the Kawai was better for Mozart, but liked the Technics for Beethoven!

However, the Technics SX-PX 35, a cheaper model, sounded pretty bad.

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wow gecko - yours looks very similar to mine - yours is probably newer.

Have you ever taken apart the keyboard part to clean it and stuff? I'd like to do that just for good measure, but at the same time, I'm a little worried I'd break something.
 
Used to love mine. I also (no I didn't sell mine to Geck) traded mine for a Kawai...interesting world. Have played on all the big names, and like Yamahas live (or Nord, but they're out of my range any more). But the Kawai CE-220 just had so much going for it (including the best feeling weighted keys I've ever played on--Very close to the Steinway and Kawai grands I used to play.)
 
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