Bouncy Nugget

Hi there! Can anyone tell me of pedal accessories for the Casio PX5S? I want a soft pedal, or perhaps a 2 pedal unit (sustain and soft), but i cannot find any, at least not any cheap ones. It has to be relatively inexpensive. None of that $200 nonsense. Please advise!

Thanks, i appreciate the input! I hope there will be a way to resolve this, and perhaps prevent it from happening again.

The first sequence of notes (A5 and B5) is about how the keys sound before they have been used too many times, though the unused notes are a little bit more quieter but not by much. The second sequence with all the rattling is what every single Casio i've played eventually sounds like (in my experience) after a certain amount of play time. I've owned 4 different Casio models, each of which got to this same stage (some worse than others). My friend owns a PX120 and it also sounds dreadful, exactly like my recording except on every key (granted it is old now). Maybe the problem is that i play classical music? Maybe that kind of music is too vicious for a Casio piano. The demos for every digital piano are always jazz music. What type of music do all of you play? Like i said in an earlier post though, i suspect it has something to do with the white or black key tops loosening from the hammer mechanism. I can physically rattle them on the troubled keys more than the quieter keys. I'm not 100% sure though XD

Never mind i figured it out. The first 4 thumps are B5 and the second 4 are A5, then a trill between A5 and B5. Then in the same sequence, 4 notes of F5 followed by 4 notes of E5, then a trill between E5 and F5. E5 and F5 are clearly having problems XD There are other notes like it, and some notes are gradually getting there. Generally the highest and lowest notes have the least noise. If the entire keyboard remained like those highest and lowest notes i would not be fussed, but they don't so here i am key rattle.WAV

Yes, but only if you tell me how to upload a wave file to this forum? I can't figure it out.

Don't suppose you got around to checking your piano out? Has anyone else got anything to say about this major issue? The best thing i can think of right now is to sell and buy a keyboard of another brand. I'm trying to play Beethoven's Pathetique, 1st movement and the left hand is all rattle and thump. Impossible to enjoy music with the PX5s as it is.

I look forward to a response!

Well it is a start! I definitely have thought about adding extra padding for the downward noise, but it is the upward clanking that is ticking me off XD I'm fairly certain it is exactly what i said it is, some of the highest and lowest notes don't have the upward noise. I assume this is because i have not been bashing them. So, it seems a reasonable assumption to think the white plastic keys are slipping off of the hammer mechanism. In fact if i wiggle the keys, the loud keys are more loose than the others. I once took a Casio apart which had a broken key, and i found that the keys had a plastic type of frame that sort of sat around the actual metal mechanism and some of these plastic pieces were warped. That might have been the PX330, but i don't remember too well. Either way, what a bummer. Maybe i can just glue the white plastic bits in place? Even then, a little more abuse will undo that effort XD

I know i'm not the only one with this problem people!

I've had this same experience on every Casio i've owned. Anyway, it's getting to be unbearable. Has anyone got experience in taking a Casio piano apart and stopping the keys from clunking? It's not the thud on the way down that is a bother, or even the thud on the way up. What it seems to be is the plastic covers on the keys loosen themselves off of the actual hammer mechanism after a certain amount of abuse (blame Rachmaninoff) and on the way up after being pressed the loosened keys make a rattling noise. The clunking of some keys overpowers the sound of the piano when set at practical volume levels so turning it up is not an option, and this is particularly inconvenient at night time which is when i most often have time to play. I love this keyboard except for this sad fact, well that and the hammer mechanism for some reason not playing repeated notes as clearly as past models :s My keyboard is not under warranty. Advice please!? Thank you!