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Suzuki QC1 QChord Digital Song Card Guitar with A/C adapter (QCA) |  | Brand: Suzuki
Category: Musical Instruments
List Price: $329.95
Buy New: $236.00
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 9659
Shipping Weight (lbs): 15
A 21st century version of the popular Omnichord, the Q-Chord has a powerful onboard microprocessor, an advanced sound engine, and a high-tech speaker with bass port for exceptional flexibility and fidelity. Its loaded with features - like 84 different chord combinations, 100 instrumental voices, 10 fully-orchestrated digital rhythms (with 30 more available on the optional QRC-1 rhythm cartridge). If all that sounds overwhelming, remember that the Q-Chord has been designed for players with no pr
Model: QC-1 and QCA
ASIN: B0002EB5OE
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| ♦ | Has a powerful onboard microprocessor, an advanced sound engine, and a high-tech speaker with bass port | | ♦ | 84 different chord combinations, 100 instrumental voices, 10 fully-orchestrated digital rhythms |
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Product Description
Omnichord, the Q-Chord has a powerful onboard microprocessor, an advanced sound engine, and a high-tech speaker with bass port for exceptional flexibility and fidelity. Its loaded with features - like 84 different chord combinations, 100 instrumental voices, 10 fully-orchestrated digital rhythms (with 30 more available on the optional QRC-1 rhythm cartridge). If all that sounds overwhelming, remember that the Q-Chord has been designed for players with no previous experience, you can learn to play in seconds, using the numerous pre-set options. Later, its multiple skill-level settings allow you to add features as you become more proficient. Think of it as a synthesized autoharp!
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 12
 STREET PERFORMER'S DREAM COME TRUE September 7, 2006
California Cajun (Northern Ca. United States)
22 out of 24 found this review helpful
This instrument is just great! I'm one of those guys that couldn't carry a tune in a bucket. I'm sure you've heard the term "advsersity inspires creativity"? Well, things have been pretty "adverse" for myself and my little grand daughter. I'm disabled, in a wheelchair, absolutely no talent whatsoever. Very little income, bla, bla, bla. Well, I've been hoping to find a means to earn a little extra, so I can better provide for my grand daughter a few of the things every other kid seems to have.
I see beggars all the time. They seem to earn enough to stay drunk 24 hrs/day. So, I figure, if I just had some kind of talent to offer as a "street performer", it's a step above begging and I hear they do pretty good. So along comes the Q-Chord. A magnificent instrument, easy to learn, even a no-talent like myself can make some pretty good noise come out of this thing. With an A/C inverter connected to my wheelchair batteries I can play my Q-Chord all day, and never run low on power. So if you ever see an old man in a wheelchair playing his Q-Chord on a street corner in Northern California, drop a dollar in his hat. I'm sure he'll appreciate it!
Easy music for the musically challenged October 25, 2006
21 Days (Alabama)
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
I got the Qchord to play Christmas songs for myself since my piano skills just aren't up to accompanying anybody. While there are indeed lots of buttons, the basics are incredibly easy. However, given practice, you can make the Qchord rock! Check out [..]; start with the Quaint Cute Qchord Song for a great demo.
The power user has plenty to keep him or her busy (MIDI capability and more), but I just strum along with myself to Jingle Bells and am plenty happy. For a great beginner book that walks you step by step with Cd accompaniment, try the McGuffey Eclectic Qchord Reader. Plus, the online community is simply fantastic--what great grassroots support!!
If you wish you were musical, try the Qchord. You'll be amazed at the music you can make!
Finally! An instrument even I can play!! November 11, 2007
Jerry Booth
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I have tried everything from steel guitar to harmonica without
success. I had given up, now that I'm 47, on ever playing anything.
I saw this and tried it out, WOW! I can actually make it sound
like the songs I grew up loving. Only drawback, I wish it wasnt
plastic...makes it look like a toy.
A real instrument. November 29, 2009
R. Bridges (Paradise,CA USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I have been playing the Q for about a year now and play it every Sunday in Church in both services, the traditional and contemporary. I think the Q is kind of getting a bad rap about not being a serious instrument. Yah, you can play it in 9 seconds out of the box if you just want to strum to some dumb canned song but that is not what I do with it. I just wish Suzuki would not have put the feature on there because every time I turn it on I have to automatically push two buttons so that dumb song won't start, annoying. Other than that though the Q is as serious an instrument as you wish to make it by putting tons of practice into it and work on technique on the strum plate for each genre of music. We play at least eight songs a week in all kinds of different keys so that can be challenging on the Q. To solve the problems of this I use the Nashville Numbering System and convert all my music to that before performances. Then I can do less thinking and put more of my concentration into singing. Before I did that my mind was just having to do too much thinking and I had to glance at the Q too much which equaled stress. If however, you are just going to play in a few different keys though it would not be a problem at all. Some of the music, such as the old hymns can be pretty complex so the ability to change chords properly while strumming the plate with proficiency using all the octaves successfully is an important thing to master. I also play pennywhistle which is another instrument that people assume is easy to learn. I guess it is but it is not easy to play skillfully. I think the Q kind of fits into that too. Yes, anybody can pick it up and work out a simple song on it but consistently putting out good music is going to take time and practice. As far as how well it is received by people, it is received very well. The people in the traditional service love the hymns done on it (I am backing up a 12 string guitar in that service), and most worship music is great on the Q. I don't like it so much on some of the harder contemporary stuff so I opt out and play pennywhistle or just sing on the few we do. I like the default strum plate (guitar) setting for the strum-sounds but have not found another one in all the hundred that I would use. Some are so-so and others to me are just plain silly but to each their own. I never use the rhythms at all because I just hate canned rhythm of any kind and am backed by the best drummer in the world but I have a friend that likes them so it is probably just me. To respond to the reviewer that said they wished it were not plastic because it makes it look like a toy, I disagree there. I play with other musicians that think it is rather fascinating and never thought it looked like a toy and the last time I checked there were not any keyboards that were metal. I don't know what else it could be made of. It isn't a guitar and should not be compared to one. One more criticism I have is that it "weirds out" sometimes. Kind of gets this funky sort of osculating tone. I have to shut it off and back on to clear it. It only happened once during a solo in church but I just played it out and nobody noticed. Maybe it is just the nature of the Q or maybe it is just mine. If you just are in love with music and sound I would recommend the Q. You can play it at whatever level you wish and enjoy it and isn't that why you want to play your own music? If not, maybe it should be.
DEFINITELY! July 30, 2008
lady (USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
My Qchord just arrived a couple of hours ago and I've been playing non-stop since then. I only stopped to rest my hands.
It is amazing! I used some of my piano music and played the chords with my left hand and did "anything I felt like doing" with my right hand and have actually perfected 1 song already - "Washed in The Blood".
1. It looks good! It gets covered with finger prints pretty fast, but it has a nice "curb appeal" to it anyway.
2. It is lightweight. It is easy to carry and hold while playing, yet it doesn't have that "toy" look or feel to it.
3. It sounds great. I didn't like the demo song, I find that I prefer to play the chords myself. I initially started playing chord progressions I play on my other "real" instruments.
4. Easy to play out the box - There will definitely be a learning curve for the more advanced features, but you can enjoy this instrument right out of the box.
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