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• Sophisticated, modern design featuring chic dark rosewood color scheme.
• The key cover is a soft-landing type that closes gently, providing the same experience of quality as on a fine acoustic piano.
• Based on Korg's own philosophy of "Piano eXperience," these instruments use carefully sampled sounds that capture the resonances of a real grand piano, and deliver a rich and beautiful piano sound that responds to the expressive touch of the player.
• Korg's original Real Weighted Hammer Action 3 (RH3) keyboard provides excellent response for repeated notes.
• The speaker system faithfully reproduces deep sounds with superb presence.
• The C-540 provides 40 different high-quality sounds. Layer mode and Split mode are also available.
• The C-540 contains 205 demonstration songs (including sound demo songs).
• The convenient metronome function lets you select various time signatures; choosing an accent or a bell to signify the first beat. On the C-540, you can also choose from 37 different drum patterns that make your lessons more enjoyable.
• Two headphone jacks --- an ideal feature for piano duets, for sharing a song you've practiced, student and teacher/parent lessons, or for late-night practice.
• A convenient USB connector allows you to transmit and receive MIDI data, or to save a recorded song as SMF format MIDI data on your computer.

• Korg digital pianos feature a graceful form and a full complement of useful features.

Elegantly sophisticated design

The Korg Concert series combines the elegance of an acoustic piano with a sophisticated design that will be at home in any interior. The C-540 features modern-looking front legs and a dark rosewood finish for a calm feeling. The key cover is the same gently-closing type as used on acoustic pianos, ensuring peace of mind during children's lessons. These instruments are designed for simple operation and ease of use.

Deeply beautiful sound based on Korg's distinctive "Piano eXperience" philosophy.

The C-series is an example of Korg's "Piano eXperience" philosophy developed from extensive research into every aspect from sound-creation to speaker system design, with the aim of producing the most beautiful sounds possible. The piano sounds in PCM memory were sampled from a world-class grand piano, with four levels of keyboard dynamics for the C-540, and two levels for the C-340. In addition, the C-540 also meticulously samples the subtle mechanical sounds that occur when the hammer returns to its original position after striking the string, as well as the sympathetic resonance that envelopes the entire piano when you hold down the damper pedal, reproducing the deep and beautiful sonic experience that you enjoy when seated at a real grand piano. Every detail of this expansively rich sound is under your expressive control.

Real Weighted Hammer Action 3 (RH3) keyboard – let your fingers experience oneness with the keys.

The C-540 uses the Real Weighted Hammer Action 3 (RH3) keyboard that is also found on Korg's top-class synthesizers, and that is based on the same mechanism as a grand piano. Excessive springiness is eliminated to ensure excellent response for any type of passage, ensuring that the keys will return as quickly as if they were being pulled up by your fingers. The hammers of this Japanese-made keyboard are graded into four weights, with a heavier playing feel in the lower register and lighter feel in the high register. Each unit is carefully made in the Miyama-cho factory in Kyoto, famed for its superb level of craftsmanship. With environmental concerns in mind, the hammers are made without lead.

The Key Touch Control function lets you change the way that your playing strength will affect the sound output, with a selection of nine levels on the C-540. This allows you to enjoy performing with the optimal response for your own playing touch.

A speaker system that produces spacious and powerful sound.

The C-540 contains a new speaker system with two tweeters that reproduce the high frequencies and two large-diameter woofers to carry the lows. The C-340 has two large-diameter speakers. Each instrument delivers rich, spacious, and powerful sound.

A wide range of demonstration songs including demos of the internal sounds.

The C-540 also includes a piano lesson function for enjoyable practicing.

In addition to twenty demo songs that introduce the sounds, the C-540 provides 185 songs that include famous pieces for everyone to enjoy, as well as standard piano practice pieces. In addition to being an enjoyable way to hear background music, this function provides some great ways to improve your playing skill. You can use the piano lesson function to play along with these demo songs at a comfortable tempo, or listen to the right hand and left hand parts played back separately by a professional pianist while you practice each part by itself.

The pedals are an indispensable element of piano performance, and these instruments provide all three standard pedals: damper, soft, and sostenuto. The damper and soft pedals support half-pedaling for more expressive control, and the C-540 also lets you assign the pedals to control an effect or other functions. For example you can use a pedal to apply a glide effect that slightly lowers the pitch, switch a rotary speaker effect, or switch the recorder between play/stop without taking your hands off the keyboard.

Versatile functions make your performance more enjoyable.