Piano!
We just purchased a PX-720 electric piano from Costco. As it turns out, this model isn’t offered in the U.S. normally (it took me forever to find that link), but Costco got some special concession. And it was about 60% of list price, so I couldn’t pass it up.
The sound it produces is simply amazing. It has the best recorded piano sounds I’ve heard in any keyboard, and it’ll mix up to 128 simultaneous notes. It has your standard 3 piano pedals, so I can finally get to practice some hymns right in the house 
It came with a big book of standard classical songs of varying difficulty. All 60 of them are programmed into the piano, and you can set it to play back one or both hands at any speed, so you can practice along with it.
It’s got a metronome that works great and comes over the same speakers with the actual piano noise, so you can always hear it over your own playing.
It can record your playing and play it back, so you can hear where you messed up after the fact.
And as it turns out, there’s a little piano studio a few miles down the street that offers 30-minute once-weekly lessons for $80/month. I think I’ll go down and check it out. Liliana, too, perhaps.
Anyway, yay!
September 20th, 2008 at 7:03 am
Looks like a great thing to own! Have fun playing it. The digital we got from Radio Shack is a store-branded Casio Privia, not as nice as yours but the price was right. It gets a fair amount of use even with two other pianos in the house.