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An innovative instrument that'll have anyone playing music in just minutes!
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Suzuki QChord
The QChord Digital Songcard Guitar
The QChord is a state-of-the-art, portable, self-contained instrument. It uses the latest microprocessor technology to deliver incredible sound and myriad playing options. Developed by Suzuki, makers of the Omnichord, digital pianos, and many other musical instruments, it combines features of an autoharp, piano, guitar, and other musical instruments, in digital form.Can't play a note?
Even if you can't play a note, this laptop musical instrument will let you improvise like a pro today - while a hot combo follows your lead!But how to play?
Just push the chord button you read from your QChord Songbook, and a dynamic rhythm section plays inspiring accompaniment in the musical style and tempo you select. Simultaneously, QChord's unique strumplate puts four octaves of the chord's notes at your fingertips, for strumming or tapping in 100 different selectable voices. Or, plug in a QCard Digital Songcard Cartridge, and let it direct your combo through beautiful arrangements of your favorite tunes - while you jam - and never hit a clinker! QChord's advanced digital technology starts you off sounding great, regardless of your ability. All this you can accomplish using just the QChord'sUnlimited Potential
And, you'll find that there's unlimited creative potential for any level of musical talent as you become familiar with the countless other advanced features for varying your musical expression. There's a pitch-bend wheel, vibrato, reverb, and the option to use the chord buttons as a standard keyboard, to name just a few. And all in a self-contained, lightweight*, portable instrument, with a built-in speaker and bass port that deliver impressive room-filling sound!
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- Range: 4 octaves
General MIDI voices: 109
Chord: 36 soft-touch buttons, 84 chord combinations (major, minor, 7th)
Buttons: major 7th, minor 7th, augmented, and diminished
Rhythm: rock, country, dance, lounge, new age, waltz, ballad, march, bossanova, and blues shuffle (additional rhythm styles available on the optional rhythm style cartridges)
Accompaniment: 4 channels (drums, bass, chord, and chord plus) with individually adjustable controls
Effects: reverb, chorus, vibrato (all with adjustable depth control), and pitch bend
QCard: optional song cards with lyric, chord, and melody books
Variable controls: master volume, strum plate volume, strum plate sustain, rhythm, tempo, bass volume, chord volume, chord plus volume, reverb depth control, chorus depth control, vibrato depth control, pitch bend wheel, transpose, tuning, octave shift
Button controls: power, demo, strum plate voice select, rhythm style select, rhythm fill, rhythm intro/end, start/stop, QCard play, QCard pause, QCard search
Other functions: rhythm fill, rhythm intro/end, pitch bend wheel, MIDI I/O, transpose, octave shift
Display: 2-digit LCD, 2-LED Light Bar, 12 LEDs
Power output: 7 watts
Speakers: 5" oval speaker, bass ports
Jacks: A/C Power In, 1/4" line out/headphone, MIDI in, MIDI out
Power requirements: 12V DC, 8 "C" batteries