Casio CT-S500 Casiotone 61-Key Portable Keyboard

Fun, easy to use and sounds great.

I bought this for a birthday gift for my wife. Punch line: she loves it and impressed me greatly by playing Mozart's Clarinet Concerto straight away even though it's about twenty years since she last played on a piano.Now the bad news. I (with hindsight, foolishly) ordered to keyboard to be delivered rather than going to the store in person - I only live half an hour's walk away. StarTrack's delivery service was appalling. I ordered it on April 28th, Express delivery, so it would arrive for her birthday on 12th May. Apparently a delivery was attempted on the 2nd May but no card was put through our mail box and I wasn't notified by SMS or anything so, I had no idea. A few days later, when I enquired what was going on, Mannys told me another delivery request would ... MoreI bought this for a birthday gift for my wife. Punch line: she loves it and impressed me greatly by playing Mozart's Clarinet Concerto straight away even though it's about twenty years since she last played on a piano.Now the bad news. I (with hindsight, foolishly) ordered to keyboard to be delivered rather than going to the store in person - I only live half an hour's walk away. StarTrack's delivery service was appalling. I ordered it on April 28th, Express delivery, so it would arrive for her birthday on 12th May. Apparently a delivery was attempted on the 2nd May but no card was put through our mail box and I wasn't notified by SMS or anything so, I had no idea. A few days later, when I enquired what was going on, Mannys told me another delivery request would be made and it was now urgent. The week of her birthday came, and still no delivery. I got into a panic and decided, look, can I just come and pick this up from the depot? To cut a long and tedious story short, more miscommunications meant that the pressie did not arrive on time and five days later I had to drive 35 minutes to StarTrack's vast depot by Perth airport to pick it up - which I did only thanks to one friendly guy who went out of his way to help.The bad news doesn't quite end there. In the video promoting the keyboard on Mannys web site I am sure it states that a variable height stand is included. But, of course, it wasn't.Lesson to learn: Always pick up from the store, or make sure the delivery service will drop off at the post office if you're not there to collect.Still love the keyboard though.Algis

Great Budget Keyboard

As a die hard Yamaha fan, for many years, I never thought that I would purchase a Casio keyboard. For the price and size, the Casiotone CTS 500 is a great portable tool. Did I mention that it only weighs 10 pounds? The keybed and sounds (piano, EP, and organ) are better than many keyboards costing hundreds of dollars more. Perhaps the most surprising thing, is the amount of control you have over shaping the sound itself. The digital effects are solid and having built in speakers is a huge plus for playing in the backyard or anywhere. Highly recommend it. Great working with Jennifer and Liam at the Huntington Station location.

Inexpensive and lightweight

Just wanted something to bring to rehearsals that didn't weight as much as my stage piano. Limiting with the 61 keys, and the keybed isn't that great, but lightweight! Sounds are decent, not great. For duet rehearsal I just use the speakers, they're not loud at all but works for an acoustic / no mics rehearsal with an acoustic player.

very useful keyboard ,nice sounds, styles

Very good sound quality and quantitysampling is very easy to use you can create your drum kit or custom sounduseful styles + 50 User styles !!!amazing value ( Ac Adapter included + Bluetooth MIDI/Audio Adapter)very good keyboard for practice solo or 2nd keyboard for soloI used Casio wk6600 , cts1 before and I am upgrade to CT-S 500highly recommended keyboard