Hi Rick,

The Casio piano is only 32 note polyphony when you are using certain voices on the piano. Once you switch to some of the others that are stereo sampled it drops to 16. Imagine now 16 polyphony now layered with strings or something. Not to mention if you use their onboard recorder. I think that the Casio piano is good, but I think that many makers of keyboards are not disclosing the true polyphony of their boards. Technics did the very same thing with at least one of their boards. The P-30 I believe stated it was 32 note Poly and once you switched it to stereo output it dropped to 16. Somewhat dishonest I feel. However, Polyphony is important. You will really notice it on multiple sustained notes not so much on a gliss. The attack and decay are to fast for that to really show the lack of polyphony. Not to mention if you are in a 32 note polyphony mode, 32 notes are quite a few to have played at one time if your just using one voice. Multiple layers or multitracking will eat polyphony very quickly. Since starting out on a miniMOOG and moving through Korg POLY series and Roland Juno and Yamaha DX series and the Clavinova's I can certainly say without hesitation POLYPHONY is a big key to the value of a keyboard.

Best regards,

Dennis L. Almond
aka TwoNuts

[This message has been edited by TwoNuts (edited 04-12-2006).]