Brad Saucier Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 Let's try something new. Here's a trivia question. See if you can come up with the correct answer without searching for it. What is the meaning of "Privia"? Tip: Privia is the brand name of a line of digital pianos by Casio. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jokeyman123 Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 Is it related to Stivia-I put in my coffee. Maybe it's a town in Italy where they designed these? Wasn't there a Fiat Privia car? I'm such a wise-guy sorry. I give up-I give up easily sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Saucier Posted December 10, 2018 Author Share Posted December 10, 2018 Congratulations! That answer is.... incorrect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike71 Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 http://www.dorosupermercati.it/DoroWebSvi/SitePages/PublicListViews.aspx?NOMELISTA=Sezione Primia&Ordine=1 It's an Italian supermarket brand. Good ice creams by the way. Ah, that's Primia... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Saucier Posted December 10, 2018 Author Share Posted December 10, 2018 Nice try! For what it's worth, I think ice cream was indeed consumed while engineers were designing the Privia series. How else could we explain how sweet they turned out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sslyutov Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 Privia does not mean anything. The language has not been detected However ... it is a suffix (sorry I searched) which means - the condition of loss or deprivation Not exactly what I expected to find Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Saucier Posted December 10, 2018 Author Share Posted December 10, 2018 Searching is not allowed. Even though you did search, the answer is incorrect. Please try again. Another hint: It's the combination of two words. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sslyutov Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 I am sure the answer is not correct. What do you mean by saying try? Try to guess If you know just tell us but prove it. My association for Privia is Prime (do not know why) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Saucier Posted December 10, 2018 Author Share Posted December 10, 2018 No worries. We're just having fun here. I'll give everyone an opportunity to see this and throw in their guess if they want before I reveal the answer. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brattonken Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 Brad you must be getting lonely! happy christmas, Ken 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Saucier Posted December 11, 2018 Author Share Posted December 11, 2018 Thanks Ken. As the saying goes, there's method in my madness. I think some of our members will find the answer very interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chandler Holloway Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 I know the answer, but it wouldn't really be fair for me to participate since it's my job to know trivia like this. Translation: I do not know the answer and have chosen not to guess so as to avoid embarrassing myself. I would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling Brads... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chas Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 "a condition in which the placenta partially or wholly blocks the neck of the uterus, thus interfering with normal delivery of a baby." I will never look at a Casio Previa the same way again! 😱😱😱😱😱😱 Oh hang on, it's "Privia" not "Previa".... 😂😂😂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jokeyman123 Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 Driving me crazy. Prime viaduct piano? Pro viagra keyboard? What the heck uses via as a word? Except Privia. Personal aviary piano (for the birds?) I'm starting to kvetch about this. (look that one up, as in Philo Kvetch). Come on, somebody here must know this-besides Brad and Chandler. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Saucier Posted December 11, 2018 Author Share Posted December 11, 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, Jokeyman123 said: Personal aviary piano You were actually getting warmer there. Okay, I'll reveal all. Answer: "Privia" is the combination of two words. It means "Private Piano". The origin story behind the name and development of the Privia series is interesting. In 2013, for the 10th Anniversary, several members of the original development took the time to write what they remember about working on the project. I found it very interesting and it reveals just how much effort went into what we see today. The link to it is below. Don't forget to click the links on that page to read all three interviews. http://arch.casio.com/emi/privia-10th/en/interview01.html Edited December 11, 2018 by Brad Saucier 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jokeyman123 Posted December 12, 2018 Share Posted December 12, 2018 I tell musicians often-the next time you criticize the Japanese, Chinese or other far eastern civilizations making of instruments-consider. These civilizations were perfecting beautiful performance instruments thousands of years ago-I found this out when I began studying the history behind the Chinese and Japanese cultures-partially motivated by my father's military training with the language and customs, the martial arts (we were expected to know about the Japanese culture and traditions) the repertoire we performed at school in the NJ percussion ensemble-much of which was derived from Far and middle Eastern musical forms. I have much respect every time i sit at my Casios-and is the reason i can't seem to part with even the older PX575. Thanks Brad for the link, very nice. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sslyutov Posted December 12, 2018 Share Posted December 12, 2018 Casio should steek with the original idea. I like it a lot. There is ONE feature which I would appreciate a lot .... Priviano Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyy38 Posted December 26, 2018 Share Posted December 26, 2018 Once upon a time GODZILLA did not start out as such- he had a different name, which was GOJIRA. CASIO was paraphrased/changed in a similar way, owing to the four brothers who first started the family business. What was the last name of the brothers, originally? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jokeyman123 Posted December 26, 2018 Share Posted December 26, 2018 Can we look it up this time? Not like a traditional japanese name is going to be something like "Smith" or "Bob's-ur-uncle" (I heard that on the movie 'A Christmas Carol" last night-just thought I'd throw it in). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chas Posted December 26, 2018 Share Posted December 26, 2018 6 hours ago, skyy38 said: Once upon a time GODZILLA did not start out as such- he had a different name, which was GOJIRA. CASIO was paraphrased/changed in a similar way, owing to the four brothers who first started the family business. What was the last name of the brothers, originally? "Kashio" IIRC! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chas Posted December 26, 2018 Share Posted December 26, 2018 In other original name that got changed on release trivia. The classic arcade video game "Donkey Kong" had no donkeys in it. That's because it was originally called "Monkey Kong", but the translation to English wasn't done correctly and "monkey" got mistranslated to "donkey". This 'tradition' still continues today with instructions manuals for Chinese products (the Japanese are generally much better at translating nowdays). Often Chinese manuals are described as written in "Chenglish"! Quite amusing to read the badly translated instructions, i.e. "use screwdriver to happily circulate screw into abyss, then place board majestically vertical for episode 2." 😂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jokeyman123 Posted December 26, 2018 Share Posted December 26, 2018 So Kashio was the original founding family name of the company we now call Casio. Reading over Casio's history quite interesting. I had fogotten how much time I had spent with several Cassiopeias I had owned for quite a few years, were very useful at the time released. Great color screens on the later ones. So our large color PX screens were already a part of Casio's dna, I had forgotten. Were also touchscreens I recall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyy38 Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 On 12/26/2018 at 8:07 AM, Chas said: "Kashio" IIRC! BINGO! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike71 Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 On 12/26/2018 at 6:16 PM, Chas said: This 'tradition' still continues today with instructions manuals for Chinese products (the Japanese are generally much better at translating nowdays). Often Chinese manuals are described as written in "Chenglish"! Quite amusing to read the badly translated instructions, i.e. "use screwdriver to happily circulate screw into abyss, then place board majestically vertical for episode 2." 😂 I think most people aren't reading manuals. I like LIDL products because their manuals are very detailled for cheap products. But most people don't mind reading the manuals and ond expect them on cheap gizmos. I still have somewhere the manuals of my first IBM compatible PC, there was a detailed description of the motherboard, with even the schematic diagram, in a good English. And was Made in Taiwan. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jokeyman123 Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 Just a question-what do I do with my screwdriver after episode 2? Is it on Netflix? This is asking for trouble, I know it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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