Duolingo now offers a portable piano for its music course

Duolingo, champion known for its language-learning app, has teamed up with the instrumentality marque Loog to connection a beginner-friendly portable piano. The $249 Loog x Duolingo Piano is meant to complement Duolingo’s likewise gamified euphony people launched past year.

The keyboard is fundamentally a co-branded mentation of the portable integer soft that Loog launched connected Kickstarter past year, featuring a near-identical woody design, 37 keys, and a measurement adjusting knob. Beyond the greenish colour determination are immoderate further aesthetic differences. The knob connected Duolingo’s mentation is simply a lighter woody finish, and it comes with a matching telephone basal to travel the company’s euphony lessons arsenic you play, for example.

The astir notable diagnostic shared by some models are velocity-sensitive keys that let for dynamics, meaning the measurement output is adjusted depending connected however hard oregon softly the keys are pressed.

The Loog x Duolingo Piano is 18.9-inches (480.8mm) agelong and weighs 3.64 pounds (1.65kg), with built-in stereo speakers and a rechargeable artillery that lasts up to 8 hours connected a afloat charge. There are besides octave shifter and prolong pedal ports connected the rear of the device, a USB-C jack for charging and transmitting MIDI, and a 3.5mm headphone jack to support everyone other successful the location sane erstwhile practicing.

Duolingo’s euphony people lone provides soft lessons close now, and volition enactment with any soft — not conscionable the caller Loog collaboration. The Loog x Duolingo Piano does vessel with beginner-friendly flashcards though, and dynamics are bully to person connected a soft that’s tiny capable to beryllium stashed distant successful a drawer erstwhile not being used. Just beryllium alert that this is lone a preorder and won’t beryllium shipped retired until November.