Blue Man Group Keyboard | List Price: $79.99
Discount Price: $65.01
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Platform: Windows
Brand: Manley
Binding: Toy
Release Date: 2007-09-01
Features: - New Technology interfaces makes music fun, easy, and exciting
- Unique styling like nothing in the category
- Unique play patterns and engaging musical interactions
- I-pod compatible! Play your music on top of your favorite MP3 tracks!
- Plays pre-recorded songs and lets you record & play back your own musical masterpieces
fun! [Posted on 2008-01-12]
It is just plain fun. We are not into BM Group, but the piano is fun.
The 10 year old likes it and so does the 4 year old. Ok, the grownups do too. Great for introducing playing music to kids.
Fun for anyone [Posted on 2008-01-18]
I bought this thing at a re-sale store for 25 cents! I left musical voice-mails for everyone I knew (Some people actually enjoyed them). After having the keyboard several months I still keep finding new things it will do. However, because I have played the heck out of it there is a short that has developed and the keyboard will cut off as it wishes. But I got my money's worth a long time ago.
What a great toy [Posted on 2008-01-21]
The box it came in was mangled but the keyboard was in perfect shape.It took awhile to get it out of the box.(VERY well attached)It is very sturdy product and does so many things.Sometimes just used to practice the keyboard or listen to his MP3.
BMG Instrument [Posted on 2008-03-01]
I am a blueman fan a little and I collected this for Christmas 2006. It comes with an exclusive instrument DVD availible no where else, you can play an iPod on this thing ( laong with the iTunes exclusive CDs ) and if you have ever seen the comerical for this, you will get an inspiration on a song choice. It has shadow sensing, where you put your hand over the tube and it makes a sound, this is a good collector.
Rate: A+
Fun [Posted on 2008-08-11]
I can't really speak to this as a toy. I bought it on impulse (on eBay), and my intention was to hack it up and use the keyboard in another project. But I've been showing it off around work and to friends and people really, really have fun playing with it.
First off, it's very cool looking, and pretty solid. Second, the sensors are not easy to play properly, but they are a hoot to work with. Thirdly, the pre-programmed melodies are very amusing but only for a few minutes. After that, you are left with a clunky keyboard, average voices, and trying to play proper drums on the touchy sensors.
As a conversation piece or Christmas toy, great. As a functional musical instrument -- well, I'm finding it a good challenge to play the sensors properly, so there's some value there. Educational? Well, the pre-programmed stuff does let you switch in and out parts and I suppose that gives you some insight as to how a symphonic work is constructed. But that end would be better served with different software.
Summing up, it's really a grab-bag of ideas that was never properly target-tested. But it is geeky fun enough, for long enough, to be worth a few bucks.
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