Elaine

Thanks for that, I will do that and hope it gives the boost it needs Cheers

Oh that's a pity. Unfortunately we do not have a Casio repair centre now, although we had one those years ago when I had the speakers repaird. It seems the consumer culture is the thing - chuck it away and buy new.... but i don't want to do that if I can get around it, so I will try that suggestion of leaving it on. Normally I turn it off at the wall as well as on the machine. The problem with the missing tones, is that one of the registrations, which I used a LOT, no longer plays the accompaniment, so I have had to fiddle around to get an alternative for that particular registration, but because that has happened, I thought it might be the precursor to the keyboard failing in other registrations too. This is really why I bought the digital piano, as it also has a lot of the pre-set sounds and rhythms of the MZ2000, so I can get used to it, although I am not a pianist, and find the touch not as easy as the keyboard. No doubt I will get used to it, if I persevere? I really appreciate your taking the trouble to reply.

G'day Brad Mz Brilliant, many thanks indeed for that reply, just what I needed to know about the rhythms and the program change and MSB bank. I have spent hours re-typing them into an Excel spreadsheet, as I found great difficulty reading the tiny blue print on the appendix, and now see that I do not need them, as I am not connecting the CDP to a midi device. But with the tones on the MZ2000 the strings settings particularly on the C note vibrate which did not happen before. But I did not know about the battery, so is there any way I can access that battery and replace it, as it would be just great if I could get it back . I did have the speakers repaired about 7 years ago, so maybe the vibration is coming from the speakers somehow? I really like this keyboard and feel that it has been good value, as it is played most days and on Sundays for about 4 hours, so over the 14 years or so I have had it, I feel this is a good advertisement for an electronic thingummy! Appreciate your help. thanks again Elaine

I have owned a casio MZ2000 since 2001 and it has been going really well, but now some of the tones are disappearing, or vibrating, so as a backup I have just bought a Casio digital piano CDP230-R and just going through all the tones/rhythms etc. I have noticed that a couple of the rhythms which I use a lot are not on the new digital piano options so is there any way I can transfer the “Oldies Shuffle” and any of the “Tango” rhythms from the MZ2000 onto the digital piano? Also they have supplied an appendix with all the Tones, on one side of an A3 page, and each of the columns has four segments Number Tone name Program change Bank Select MSB. 034 Harpsichord 3 6 3 Can anyone tell me how these numbers 6 and 3 can be accessed on the keyboard please? I have been through the manual and cannot find any mention of a Bank Select MSB, or a program change, so I have lost the plot here obviously.