Low Price Casio CTK-4000 Premium Keyboard Pack with Power Supply, Keyboard Stand and Professional Closed Cup Stereo Headphones

I got this keyboard for my daughter for Christmas, 2009. she is 11 years old and has been enjoying the keyboard. she has used the step-up lessons to learn several pieces, and she hasn't had any "professional" piano lessons but has learned to play both hands together with several songs: Greensleaves and Danny Boy are her favorites. It took a while to get use to how the step-up lessons worked, but once we understood, it was easy to use. We don't use any of the fancier features, just wanted a basic keyboard with lots of songs and sounds. I like that about this keyboard, but have alreay had problems with it. We aren't rough on the keys, but have noticed several of the more "played" keys are clicking when played even softly. This can be slightly annoying. The clicking sounds makes it feel and sound cheap and makes me nervous about making it worse. Also, some of the features are difficult to use and don't work the way they are suppose to. Sometimes it is user error, but something as simple as recording what you are playing is very difficult. My daughter has had several frustrating moments when she thought she recorded something and she went to play it back and it wasn't there. It is a lot harder than necesary to set up the recording, and you can't easily tell if the recording is working. Also, there have been several times I had to turn the keyboard off and restart it when different buttons weren't doing what they were suppose to. It usually will work when the keyboard is "reset" by turning the power off and back on again. It can be frustrating and has happened when selecting instraument sounds as well as using the step-up lesson feature.
If the clicking gets worse, which it seems to be doing by almost negligable measure, I will consider returning it for something more sturdy, although I can't really afford more.
I have ordered a foot pedal to go with this. It is needed to play pieces so they sound nice. hope that works out well!
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