Harpon

My first was a MT- 500, with 49 mini keys and four drum pads. I think there were about 20 tones. I was amazed by it as a 33 year old adult in the Spring of '87. Found some pix. I'm still mesmerized by the look of it.

The WK-1250 I recently bought had keys that weren't sounding and one sounding very loudly- None were stuck, but it needed a cleaning. I took the sections off under the keys- that wasn't that hard- the top did NOT have to come off. I found it dirty and even two squashed ladybugs under a couple of keys. When I wiped off the contact points with paper towels damp with window cleaner and put it back together, they all came back to life as normal. if the keys are sticking, the rubber strips may not be deteriorated- just dirty. I wish I had made a video of my repair- done in about an hour, but there are good ones on youtube. You might want to try some Armour All type, wheel protector vinyl /rubber stuff on the strips if there is any rough wear- that both cleans and lubricates. There were about 5 or six rubber strips under the keys of the board below- besides the two squashed ladybugs!

I was sooo jazzed when I took a new 73 key WK !250 home from the Guitar Center in the mid-90's. I was the very first keyboard I had with full sized keys, and 73 of them! I was renting a piano at the time and making slow "adult beginner" progress. I got further along with the Casio then, although still thought I mostly just wanted an acoustic piano. I lost it then and most of my possessions, in a Hundred Year Flood in 2008. It was on the stand- who ever thought the water would get over four feet INSIDE with three feet to the floor, but there it was. Both the Casio and my Kimball spinet were gone. I hastily got a Casio WK-200 as a replacement, but they had changed some things and I was on the run so I didn't have much time to fiddle with it for awhile. In the meantime, I stood before a wk-1250 like the one I had in a pawn shop a year or so after the flood, but didn't have the money to buy it. Last month, I saw one on Facebook marketplace- only $40 and an hour away- the middle C and E weren't working and I saw some videos on cleaning under the keys so I took a chance, even though when I got there the A wasn't sounding either and the B was sounding loudly. Anyway- about an hour to clean beneath the keys and they are all back working perfect. Really like especially the #150 sequence and I recorded a song 20 years ago I may still have on another computer. If I can I'll download it. So here it is- I think it's the first of its kind- it records 5 tracks but only stores one song. It seems to be the same platform later used on the wk-200 and the WK-6600 I have also now, but the sound was improved on most tones quite a bit by the WK-200 and 5 songs are stored. The WK-6600 has tone synth capability too and DL sounds. Anyway- so it's interesting comparing the same sort of Casios from different eras (mid-90's, 2008 and then about 2016 I guess I got the WK-6600.)

I had to get one of these little "toys" about 1988- Mine has been under flood waters back in '08, for several hours, but after a very long dry out it all came back to life- EVERY FUNCTION! I started learning music on a casio500 I got in '87 and also soon had to have a Yamaha pss 480 - both with 49 mini keys. It has, for it's day, some great synth capabilities. The Casio 500 I gave to my nephews years ago and the Yamaha I lost that in that same flood but replaced it with one from ebay a few years back. WIN_20200208_02_52_06_Pro.mp4

Nice ! Between the salt water and the sea strands.....

Does your Casio have tone editing like my wk-6600. Seems like you could find some similar tone and modify it to something similar to what's on this song.