Hey, What's That Sound: Casiotone

The mini keyboard started life as a child-friendly toy in the 80s and ended up in the hands of everyone from Hot Chip to Stevie WonderWhat is it? A classic range of cheap, child-friendly keyboards launched in the early 1980s, making synthesisers as accessible to budget-conscious consumers of that decade as Casio's calculators and digital watches were in the 1970s.Who uses it? Casiotones were aimed (initially, at least) squarely at the home market, but the charity shop keyboards have become such ...

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