NEW MILES ELECTRONIC KEYBOARD 37 KEYS MILES - 3738 NEW

The preset sounds and percussion are identical but unfortunately the great animal samples are gone. This thing has also now 22 demo melodies, those individual bars (with full accompaniment) can be repeated in a loop by the "one key play" feature, which can be interesting for tekkno. In the manual this instrument is called "RY-9057T", the PCB is labelled "MC9057-01G, 99-3-6".

different main features:

• less pretty case with 2 loudspeakers (no stereo).
• now 37 mini keys
• 8 OBS rhythms {new age, march, samba, blues, slowrock, disco, waltz, rock}
• animal samples have been replaced with boring "samba" drumrolls.
• now 22 demo tunes available (but less nice ones than before).
• "one key play" mode for demo tunes exists (with full accompaniment).
• the 38 notes sequencer ignores drum pad presses now.
• start-up jingle
• button presses make a beep instead of hihat sound
• CPU "MC9057-02C, 98.2" (22 pin(?) COB module)
• battery warning plays a jingle when keyboard is not played for some minutes.
• rest is identical with My Music Center

modifications:

• cinch sound output + speaker mute switch added
• AC adapter jack with voltage regulator added

notes:

The extended keyboard range provides now higher and though even more intermodulation- distorted great digital sounds. The "one key play" feature of the 22 demo tunes provides tons of continuously repeating accompaniment loops with arpeggio and partly very strange patterns when no keys are pressed. Despite in this mode can not be played on the instrument's keyboard, they can form a great basis for tekkno variants or other meditative music. (In this mode fortunately even no auto- power- off feature quits the continuous repetitive performance.)

The demo melodies of this instrument are (according to the manual):

1. Jingle Bells
2. Say Hello
3. Row Your Boat
4. Joy To The World [wrong song]
5. Little Brown Jug
6. Hark The Herald Angles Sing
7. The First Note
8. Are You Sleeping
9. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
10. Happy Birthday
11. Little Bee
12. Wiegenlted [misspelled German "Wiegenlied" - should be lullaby]
13. Mary Had A Little Lamb
14. OH! X'mas Tree
15. Yankee Doodle
16. Little Miner
17. Happy Reunion
18. Ten Little Indians
19. Republic March
20. We Wish You A Merry X'mas
21. Long Long Ago
22. The Little Donkey

The My Song Maker keyboard was sold by Toys 'R' Us and also variants with the same CPU but other cases and brand names may exist. In an electronics shop I once even saw a cheap, black non- toy home keyboard which had additional LEDs and mid size keys, but apparently contained the same 2 note polyphonic toy keyboard CPU. (It seemed to have more than 37 keys, but the left most keys were just wired as drum pads.) Variants of this keyboard can be recognized by having similar elements like My Music Center but 37 keys and under the 4 drum pads stands S1.. S4 and there is a button labelled something with "samba" (for drumroll mode) and a "one key play" button.

A My Song Maker variant with key lighting (but only 32 keys) is the Elta - Kid Line Keyboard. Also a totally different looking keyboard model was released under the name Alaron - My Song Maker (seen on eBay), which has an asymmetric case (red with yellow speaker and green drumpads to the left, blue control panel, some word- shaped buttons) and exists also in a Bontempi version.

Attention: There are predecessors of this keyboard CPU those employ the same control panel layout like above but still have the keyboard flaw of My Music Center and also don't feature its great accompaniment loops of the "one key play" mode. If any possible, I urgently recommend to test- play it before buying. One of these faulty predecessors was the Music Fun - Melody Keyboard keyboard.

Miles 3738

This keyboard was also released as SK-3738 and JT 3738 Portable Electronic Melody Maker (with yellow, green, red and blue buttons, seen on eBay).

different main features:

• 44 midsize keys (only 37 real ones, 7 are fake and wired parallel to 4 drumpad buttons)
• 2 built-in 10cm speakers (quite loud)
• additional status LEDs for {tempo, record, onekey, select}
• jacks for speakers & phones output
• mains operated (AC 220V)

7 fake keys play drumpads.

Fake cipher labels camouflage the OBS button controls.