Yamaha
TYU-30 Fun-Keyboard (polyphonic squarewave toy keyboard
with key lighting)
This small squarewave toy keyboard has only 1 main voice sound (piano)
and 4 rhythms, but it has a key lighting function to learn keyboard playing.
Like the Yamaha PC-100 not the
keys itself but a row of small LEDs above them light up, but instead of
fragile PlayCards the musics are stored on ROM cartridges now.
main features:
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25 mini keys with small red key lighting LEDs at their upper end.
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only 1 fixed main voice sound (piano)
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4 rhythms {waltz, swing, rock, latin}
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"music" mode switch {auto play, free tempo, melody cancel, rhythm play}
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tempo buttons
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transpose buttons (-5..+6 semitones)
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digital squarewave sound generator with 4-note polyphony (for main or chord
voices) + 1 bass voice + electronic sounding percussion. (The sound hardware
is very likely identical with my Testron
and Letron keyboard.)
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cart slot for ROM cartridges with each up to 15 melodies to learn
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9V..12V AC adapter jack, line out and microphone jack
notes:
The manual I downloaded from Yamaha claims that this instrument
originally came with 2 music cartridges, but mine (from flea market) has
only the "CARTRIDGE A" with 10 nicely composed melodies:
cartridge A
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Frère Jaque
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Londonderry Air
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I've Been Working On The Railroad
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Aloha Oe
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Beautiful Dreamer
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Little Brown Jug
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Chopin's Nocturne
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On The Beautiful Blue Danube
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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
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Auld Lang Syne
cartridge B (I don't own this, thanks
to The Reverse Engineers
for the info.)
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Oh Susanna
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La Paloma
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Michael, row your boat ashore
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Cielito Lindo
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When the saints go marching in
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Brahm' Cradle Song
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Bach's Minuet
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Ode to Joy
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Jingle Bells
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Silent Night
To play keyboard, select the "rhythm play" mode. The others are for the
built-in musics and key lighting. It took me quite long to understand why
the thing often had refused to play them and other times didn't, until
I read in the manual that to get the musics to play, you must first press
the key with the melody number and while still holding that key press and
release the "start/ stop" button. (Sorry, previously even me explained
this wrongly.) This reminds me much of my Atari 8 bit homecomputer
reset button sequence for cassette loading, but for operating a children
toy this is really a little hard and rather resembles the procedure for
unlocking the child lock function of a badly designed VCR.
Direct sucessor of this instrument was the Yamaha
TYU-40.
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