I got a new toy.
There are some days when we have a bit of downtime, and all of my hobbies are back in Montana. So I said to myself, “Self, maybe you should learn to be more musical.” Buying a piano didn’t seem like a great idea, but these days you can get a pretty good electronic keyboard without spending a ton of money. I shopped around and talked to a couple of friends who have nice keyboards (well beyond my abilities or budget), and decided on this Casio WK-6600.
It has hundreds of instruments (“voices” in the terminology of the trade) and reverb effects and drum solos and automatic this and that, but in the end I really only care about the piano mode. Perhaps someday I’ll get into music creation, instead of plinking around in piano mode. But for now, it’ll be fun to teach myself how to play. Again.