psmv5: Piano 101

From a correspondent: probably an 88 key Casio CDP S110. No doubt I shall hear it in action in due course. There is piano playing in various parts of the family concerned, so maybe the genes will out?

The video clip at reference 4 suggests that the keyboard has plenty enough oomph for a beginner.

With the only previous Casio being the rather different model at reference 3.

PS 1: thinking with my fingers, I can see that one might get a bit picky about the tone of such a thing. But maybe pitch is not an issue. Maybe the sound card can be relied to produce a tone of the specified frequency and tuning with tuning forks, in the way of a mechanical piano, falls away? Sadly, quick peeks at references 5 and 6 suggest that it is all far too complicated and that this is not something one is going to get any kind of a handle on in in half an hour or so - although tuning forks, at least for the keyboard consumer, do look to have fallen away.

PS 2: a bit later on, I remembered talking about micro-sleeps the evening before, after wine had been taken. I had noticed these sleeps, so the question was, could I turn up the post in question? For some reason, I got the idea that fulmars got into the story and so I searched for 'fulmar', 'fulmars' and 'gulls', to no avail. Then I searched for 'micro' which turned up reference 7, from something more than a year ago. It turns out the the birds in questions were skuas, also large seabirds, but quite different. Neither of them sea gulls. Both interesting, as can be seen at references 8 and 9, albeit in different ways. A lot of the former used to be eaten by humans, while the latter needed to be very aggressive to survive in the wastes of the southern ocean. No idea why I made the switch and would probably have failed to distinguish the two in any informative way had I been asked the evening before.

PS 3: the taxonomy of sea gulls proper was complicated, but has probably now been resolved by molecular phylogenetics. See reference 10.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/04/piano-100.html.

Reference 2: https://www.casio.co.uk/cdp-s110bk.

Reference 3: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/11/pianos-92-93-and-94.html.

Reference 4: https://youtu.be/Akw0umJVDEs.

Reference 5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_card.

Reference 6: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrary_waveform_generator.

Reference 7: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-snoozing-of-penguins.html.

Reference 8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulmar.

Reference 9: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skua.

Reference 10: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gull.