Duolingo, best known for its language-learning app, has teamed up with the instrument brand Loog to offer a beginner-friendly portable piano. The $249 Loog x Duolingo Piano is meant to complement Duolingo’s similarly gamified music course launched last year.
The keyboard is essentially a co-branded version of the portable digital piano that Loog launched on Kickstarter last year, featuring a near-identical wooden design, 37 keys, and a volume adjusting knob. Beyond the green color there are some additional aesthetic differences. The knob on Duolingo’s version is a lighter wooden finish, and it comes with a matching phone stand to follow the company’s music lessons as you play, for example.
The most notable feature shared by both models…