Harpon Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 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.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Saucier Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 Hey, that's great, and oddly a very similar story to mine. I have a WK-1250 I bought new in 1997. It's a fun keyboard. Unfortunately it went completely underwater when my house flooded in Katrina. I managed to get it working for a short time, but corrosion from salt water took it's toll on the circuit boards. I still have it and hope to restore it one day. And yes, it and the WK-1200 was the first WK series keyboards from Casio. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harpon Posted March 8, 2020 Author Share Posted March 8, 2020 I still have the original a/c adapter and that still works_ I wish I'd given the keyboard more time after the flood. An SK-5 eventually came back to life, but the WK-1250 LCD screen was full of water and it wouldn't power up- I threw it out, kept the ac adapter but foolishly threw out the music rest too. It was all a real mess and I couldn't re-inhabit the house for three months and never in winter again. On the other hand I ended up in Florida and winters are better than in Indiana, if not so wooded.... I didn't know so much was available on ebay back in 08 either. I've replaced a collection of children's books and even found old books I had as a kid more than 50 years old. I'm searching for sound samples I'm sure I still have.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harpon Posted March 20, 2020 Author Share Posted March 20, 2020 Here's a track I recorded on it before the flood- it was actually done in several pieces, and I got the computer files confused somehow so the end is on the front and the front is on the end somehow I think- I put some pictures of what I was doing10 years ago and put it on youtube. The tone is mostly "sequence" and 150 the number I think. Anyway it's a sequence that really is a sequence- some things were labeled "sequence " on the later WK 200 and the see to be just a single tone so WTF? WARNING: Bad Santa Ahead! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQoetUC0Wcw 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TNAS Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 Hi All, Please help if anyone can guide me how to adjust the contrast display to more clear view on WK 1200? Thanks indeed for your respond. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Saucier Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 21 minutes ago, TNAS said: Hi All, Please help if anyone can guide me how to adjust the contrast display to more clear view on WK 1200? Thanks indeed for your respond. It does not have a contrast setting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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