Please don't buy a Yamaha Internet keyboard if you're inviting us over

Yamaha's latest “home keyboard” models (if you were going to diss on them you’d definitely be calling them organs rather than synthesizers) come with the ability to hook up to a DSL modem and download new songs to pick out on said keyboard, karaoke tunes with lyrics to sing along to, or just muzak. We'd just love it if you invited us over to your house and you ineptly picked out a couple of songs for us, then set it to muzak mode to provide us with some relaxing background tunes. So please, get one as soon as possible. There are a just a few minor things that concern us, such as why it needs a DSL connection to download MIDI files with some text attached, or why it costs two hundred and twenty fricking thousand yen, for example. For that sort of money, you could rig up a bunch of Angelshare wine coolers filled with Taittinger and into a twenty-one-gun salute and still have enough change to post bail when the Feds caught you for unlawfully having fun (maybe).

[Crossposted to Engadget]

[Via Japan.CNET.com]

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