Ian the decay is not as long as the Yamahas, and the piano, whilst good, does have the usual mid-keyboard "honkies", although nowhere near as noticeable as on earlier Privias, in my view. Bottom end is sweet, as are the top 8-12 notes as well.

What is bad is the screen printing. It is woefully inadequate to read under anything but bright light. If you place the Privia under another keyboard, it becomes pretty much impossible.

The user accesses buttons from memory rather than sight.

Styles can be assembled and editied but remember it is a very small dot matrix screen so there are several button pushes to get through.

Speakers are awful. I run this through a pair of Opera Live 405's and it sounds HEAPS better than the onboard speakers. They really are for practice only. Same with the headphones, the Privia sounds great through headphones too. Its just the speaker system Casio have used.

Over the next few days I will be hooking it up to a Motif ES Rack, and porting out the style data using a specifically created multi, so I imagone that when Yamaha guitars basses and drums are used instead I suspect it will really come alive.

Keybed is quite a deal stiffer than previous Privias I have played. I am not sure yet whether to call it as a "too heavy" key action. I want some time to get used to it first.

But as a guide, after playing it the first time for about half an hour my left wrist was aching a little..Perhaps its just my old bones though, so I want a bit more time to make a final decision.

Dennis