I was sat in my toilet this morning, (a forced regular habit nowadays), with my bum firmly welded to the freezing cold plastic seat, surrounded by all sorts of technical instruction manuals, (the sort of thing which every warm-blooded male stores in the toilet), and as I browsed through the various manuals of some of my electronic music keyboards, motorcycle manuals, etc, I was wondering, (as I do on such important occasions), with all the different keyboards, etc, exported from Japan to many other countries throughout the world, with its many different languages; does each country have its imported keyboards, etc, inscribed and programmed with its own language?

Would a keyboard user in Outer Mongolia have his/her synthesizer/electric piano, etc, inscribed in Outer Mongolian, and the Chinese user observe the lettering on the front of the keyboard to be in painted brush strokes, and would Egyptian enthusiasts observe the letting on the front of their instruments to be inscribed in Hieroglyphics....?

..and what about the Arabs?

Or are all keyboards etc, lettered in English...and everyone else has to grin and bear it....and learn English... ...!

I get so used to every piece of apparatus that I purchase being inscribed in English, that I take it for granted that everyone else receives the same identical equipment?.... ....!

So what do you reckon...Sim V Chums from non-English-speaking countries..(the USA, Outer Mongolia, etc)?... ...!


Paul.....the ever curious!... ...!

Hello Apex...

My reasoning in the post, was the various letters and words/descriptions appearing above the various keys, etc on the imported keyboards from Japan...or even England !

eg: Utility, Pattern, Menu, Category, Transpose, Strings, Brass, Start/Stop, et al....all the wording on the front of the keyboard...?

These words would not appear in Arabic, Chinese, Russian, etc script...

Would little Muhammed from a small town in Saudi Arabia recognise the word "Arpeggio" on his new Yamaha/Roland/Korg music keyboard!

Paul... ..!

Fozzer wrote on Jan 5^th, 2013 at 5:00am:

Fozzer wrote on Jan 6^th, 2013 at 6:36am:

I think this should answer your question. Run your mouse cursor over the photo.
Spain

Germany

Fozzer wrote on Jan 6^th, 2013 at 7:12am:

Not in Japan.

my language is Spanish ,but everything here come in English just like the 001  Granpno sound of Yamaha , the 99.0% of all electronic device's around here the menu comes in English ,TV, Blackberry cellphone, Blue ray everything comes in English..and even its manual instructions

  I bought recently another Piano ( a better one) also Yamaha I use a keyboard only as a Piano sound only ,I don't use styles rithms or electronics organs 

  so yes ,just like the pics ( the E223 was also my first one) come just like that in English

  Let me try to explain myself English Its like a second language, but hey! this is strange people does not speak it or write it like I do as far as I know I'm the only one I know around who set my direct TV decoder into English without subtitles and capable to write it in a certain forum 

(except for the movie Social Network how ever I switch it into Spanish and didn't understand it either the infinitive amount of dialogues by minute of this film  )

  this is a really strange place ,everyone imitates American ,most of the Malls are named Shopping Center ,Drug Store , Pharmacy ,Travel Agency they name things in English because it sounds cool to them ,they wish to speak and know English ,But at the same time there is a hate seed it by a crazy lider around ,while people hates American they are driving all American cars ,wearing jeans Cowboy boots ,if you go to the movies all the movies are made in Hollywood

and  due to a lot of Ignorant around here ,many thinks that UK ,Canada and USA is a single same country 

  I made a strong efford to paid my directv and internet service ,but both are the only thing that keeps me away from the real ugly truth of this place 


Alex