Casio brand is very popular and famous all over the world. This brand produces some of the best products on the international electronics market. This is a quality watch, and very functional calculators, and great tools for playing music, and much, much more. In a way, this brand has become a household name, designating all electronic keyboard devices for playing music, which in fact other brands can produce.
One of the keyboard subtypes of the brand in question that is widely used in children's creativity and simply in the world of professional or semi-professional music is the Casio SA-77 keyboard.
Tool description
This is a rather miniature, black or silver musical instrument with high-quality sound extraction. The range of its sound is a polyphony of 8 notes. All this provides a modernized "heart" of the instrument - the sound processor. The synthesizer has 44 black and white keys, small in size and designed primarily for children's fingers.
The program built into the synthesizer contains 50 rhythms, as well as 100 tones, which allows you to use the instrument even better and more widely! And 10 musical compositions integrated directly into the instrument will help create their own unique works for a young user. Also on the control panel of the device there is a liquid crystal screen, which will perfectly help in the selection of compositions and general instrument control through the menu.
The weight of the synthesizer is about one and a half kilograms without batteries, which is also very important because it allows a child of middle childhood to independently carry the instrument over short distances (within an apartment, music institution, and so on).
additional characteristics
Playing each of the hundreds of sounds included in the synthesizer program will amaze you with the quality of its sound. And fifty built-in style tracks - from waltz to jazz rhythms - will help you plunge into the wonderful world of music of different nations and cultures. And what is very interesting, the highlight of the Casio SA-77 synthesizer is the ability to study Indian music in great detail. This will help 2 special Indian drums, 4 tones, 1 music track and 5 corresponding rhythms.
And on the toolbar there is a very simple function of switching piano playback into organ sound and vice versa, which helps diversify the user's creative work.
How important is children to make music
Almost every child comes to this world with an innate sense of rhythm, musical talents, good hearing. And it is very important to develop these innate qualities from the childhood period of the baby’s life. The first “music teacher” for him is, of course, his mother.
First, she listens to music with the baby while he is still inside her, or sings to him herself. Experts say that in the fourth month of pregnancy, the fetus already distinguishes all sounds and rhythms surrounding the mother. And then she from the cradle sings good and gentle songs to him: before going to bed, when he calms him, she simply rejoices with him. Thus, not only the musical development of the child takes place, but also the general, integral development. Attention is sharpened, concentration on something specific, hearing becomes more sensitive to different sounds and rhythms. Over time, an excellent musical taste develops.
In a way, this can be called music education. And this is a wonderful upbringing! And to some extent, the main and necessary for the holistic development of a future adult.
Assistant for the musical development of the child
The Casio SA-77 children's synthesizer is supposedly designed specifically to help the child master the basic skills of playing musical instruments, in particular the piano. Both in size and in its functionality, the Casio SA-77 synthesizer model helps children to develop in their musical creativity.
The reviews of parents who bought the described model indicate the age limits of the children to whom the tool is suitable: from 9 months to 5-6 years. To begin with, the instrument can be used as a good large musical toy, which will then become an excellent assistant in exploring the magical world of music.
As for the price, it is quite consistent with the category of "price-quality" and is quite affordable for almost every family with an average or even less than average income level.
Worth knowing
Music lessons for children are very, very helpful in every way. Firstly, both hemispheres of the brain develop: both the right, the creative, and the left, the logical, which is the key to good further academic performance in school and in life.
Secondly, music develops sensitivity in a child, makes him more sensitive and receptive to sounds and phenomena of his environment. Thirdly, the limbic system develops, which is a kind of "conductor" in that part of the brain, which is called the cortex and where most of the information is stored. This is what is called long-term memory. That is, the depth of knowledge of life also increases due to the influence of music, music lessons. The Casio SA-77 synthesizer is an excellent assistant in exploring the world of music.