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If they had slapped a midi i/o on this I would definitely have agreed with the price tag but I just can't get away from how similar it seems to the Gakken - gotta side with Akira on this one. It seems like they saw how popular the Gakken was among musician-hackers and the like and decided they could jump on board. If the price actually drops to around $60 bucks I guess I would consider it but even with an MS-20 filter it seems like it's got about 5 minutes worth of use in it - like the Gakken.

Scratch that, I still play with my Gakken but only when extroardinarily inebriated and nothing worthwhile is ever produced.

That shop is fantastic. I can't thank you enough for having showed me that place - mostly 'cause I never would have found it on my own.

And totally sad I missed the Open Mic.

It gets even more fun when one character can have like 7 or 8 readings. Ugh.

As a general rule, kanji in words that contain hiragana (like natsukashii) use the kunyomi, single kanji often use kunyomi (水 is read mizu and not sui unless you put it in a compound like 温水 and it becomes onsui),  and compound kanji words, easily spotted by their lack of hiragana and often found in technical jargon of every kind and proper nouns, use onyomi. As with most languages, this is not a hard and fast rule and there are tons of exceptions. All bets are off when it comes to place names and family names. One example is that 'Sui' goes back to being 'mizu' in the often seen place name and family name Shimizu 清水 despite the fact that it's a kanji compound.

Nitro: regarding your question about suffix, natsukashii is actually the entire word and contains no suffix. The line between hiragana and kanji in a word that contains both does not neccesarily denote prefix/suffix. Instead, the line between a kanji character and hiragana characters will often approximate what will change when you create different conjugations/forms of the verb/adjective/whatever. E.g.: Tanoshii or 楽しい will change to 楽しかった for the past tense, 楽しくない for the negative, 楽しくなくなりました for "it became not fun" and countless other variations. Notice the changes all occur after the し shi after the kanji character. That all may not make any sense.

All this being said, I'm definitely no expert and some of this may be wrong. Lazerbeat would probably be a better person to ask. If you do have other questions though, I'd be happy to try and answer them.

And, yeah, furigana is awesome despite being aesthetically ugly.