PianoMonk If one was wanting rhythm accompaniment, the Casio choice in that price range is the CTX700, but the keyboard is rather noisy, from some reviews I've read.

I didn't even know a CTX700 exists, actually I didn't know the CTX line exists. Seems like Casio is blurring the lines with the CT400 or CT500 models. From what I can tell as difference at a first glance, the CTX700 has a bigger housing (similar Yammi E373) with more buttons than the others.

I am happy I didn't know all the alternatives, when I bought CT-S1. I just read in PianoWorld the CT-S1 has the most piano-like action-feel amongst the cheapo lightweights like the Go:Piano and similar priced Casios. I liked the small form factor and the look of the nice fabric over the speaker section. Now I use it when I am at my parents place. It is not a piano like my CN29, but still good eough to learn Blues licks and to program my musclememory. Considering the price and portability I am quite happy with it.
If I had also considered the Yamaha alternatives, I would not have bought one until today, but would still linger around in internet forums, reading reviews and watch comparison videos. 🤓

      Meowsic: $45 / 24 keys = 1,87 $/key 😸
      Yamaha: $145 / 61 keys = 2,38 $/key 🎹🎹🎹
      Guess this premium price tag can be justified with fullsize keys, and they all are full length

      WieWaldi If I had also considered the Yamaha alternatives, I would not have bought one until today, but would still linger around in internet forums, reading reviews and watch comparison videos. 🤓

      Oh my goodness yes. I have been searching for a keyboard since June. I would have purchased the Casio that Navindra showcased, but it was ridiculously expensive at the time. Basically what I paid for the e373.

      The kitty keyboard is about as usable as our real kitties on the keys 🤣

      It took all this time to decide on the keyboard, but I'm really happy with the one I picked at last. I'm not watching any more comparison videos because this choice is final 🤗

      Edit: thank you for putting the meowsic price in its proper perspective 😆😆😆

        Ok......... now I simply must have.... noooooooooo! You guys have to stop posting adorable keyboards like that 😃

        Proud new mommy owner of a piano, a kittyboard and keyboard... and showing off the music room/library 😁

          Sophia Pay attention! Looks like Sylvester keyboard is about to catch Tweety stool.

          Very nice room, btw. You have a lot of angles for filming!

            LOL good catch on the birdie and kitty! As for the filming, that is going to be an entirely different ballgame. I only have two cellphones and a desktop computer (nowhere near the music room), so I will need to figure out how to use those to make multitrack recordings... while still having a clicker track or whatever available. But that's for later, right now I'm still at the "whoa, another button, now what does THAT do?" stage of my new keyboard 🤣

            Have fun with it! I see you already using it as a drum computer metronome!
            Or work with the 🎷 sound!

            Can you place the Yammi on top of your Yammi?
            I don't get the concept with the music rest that is a floor lower than the top plate.

            I'm not entirely sure what you guys mean. Are you talking about the music stand? In that case, it's exactly as Pallas said. The Clavinova had the stand at a more conventional height, so there is no way to see my hands without glancing down.

            The new keyboard has the stand indeed flush with the keys. I haven't used sheet music with it just yet because I'm still at the button push stage, but I think a little lower will prove to be convenient ☺️

            Side note: the touch is so different! Almost as if each key has elastic in them. Quite the opposite from weighted keys, but charming in its own way.

              Pallas I think it puts the music closer to your hands, which makes sense to me, especially if you want to use peripheral vision for boogie woogie left hand jumps.

              Yes, this is something I always thought that cheapo digitals with small cabinets have as advantage over the expensive and big ones. Until now this was just a theory in my mind, glad you confirmed it.
              The special thing about Sophias Clavinova is the empty space between the top plate and the one holding the music rest. I don't think in this slot (5 cm?) is something that is necessary to run the piano. I think there are no mechanic parts, nor or any electronic. I just wonder why the top plate is existing at all?

              Sophia I'm not entirely sure what you guys mean. Are you talking about the music stand?

              Acually I wondered, how (or if) you can fold away the music rest, to make the top entirely flat. So flat, that you can place the e374 on top of it. I mean, your piano offers a big wide slot between the topmost plate and the one of the music rest. And I guess, the music rest can vanish in this slot. I just don't get, how it can vanish, without using a screwdriver.
              On mine I can fold the music away, but then I don't get a really flat top. The music rest is still there, like a wooden plank on top. If I would like to use a keyboard on top of the piano, I would have to use something like a book on each side of the folded music rest. Otherwise, the keyboard would wobble around.

                    WieWaldi Acually I wondered, how (or if) you can fold away the music rest, to make the top entirely flat.

                    I see! Yes, it folds flat. I never realized that! But I took a quick video just now to show it:

                    But I'm not sure if I can get away with placing the piano on top... because it would probably be hard to reach. Plus I might invite war with the other person in our household who puzzled a long time where to place the keyboard.

                    I didn't try it (for reasons above), but it would probably be far and high to reach too... Nice idea though! 😃

                    Edit: wait, reading your message again, mine would probably also provide the wobbly top, right? I mean it's not entirely flush with the top of the piano...

                        Thank you a lot for the quick video. This answers all my open questions, like a hands on experience.👍

                        Sophia But I'm not sure if I can get away with placing the piano on top... because it would probably be hard to reach.

                        In the 80s, a lot of synth-keyboarders played stacked setups like this:

                        Sometimes with even more keyboards to the right and left:

                        Sophia Edit: wait, reading your message again, mine would probably also provide the wobbly top, right? I mean it's not entirely flush with the top of the piano...

                        Yes. I was hoping your construction woud allow to slide the music rest into the slot, and then have a flat surface for your new Yammi, doing some saxophone licks.

                            Many years ago (1994-5), I was taking care of our baby daughter while my wife attended medical school in South Dakota. It was kind of isolating in some ways (small town, pre-internet), so one of my other activities involved using a synthesizer/sampler/sequencer keyboard (I think it was a Yamaha). I recently posted a few of my experiments here, in case anyone might be interested (the last three are perhaps the most interesting in terms of sonority):

                            Very nice! I have been experimenting with (toddler version) improvisations on my new keyboard. It has all these built in rhythms and accompaniments, just choose one, play a one finger chord and away you go. Quite fun really!

                            WieWaldi the issue with stacking keyboards is still that I only have two hands.... I wish I could grow a few more but alas... I'm having to learn to do multitrack the hard way 😄 I may need to start a topic on how to do that... even though it's still a ways off.

                            Sophia In my opinion, stacking keyboards is not a good idea, mainly because of the change in hand position relative to the keys. Organs with two keyboards have the lower keyboard below a "normal" hand position, and they are not too much different in height. Experienced players can get away with working two, or more, keyboards, even if it isn't optimal. I think having a consistent seat to key position is important in building good technique.