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@Geoff hahahahahaha - yes a KJ Piano VST with drop down temperament options that included "a bit touchy" and "foul" along with "equal".

I'm here reading the thread now but it's not what I thought. The Bechstein crew have collaborated with Casio to produce the GP series - I've played on the 300 and the 500. What I'm hoping for is a version of Kontakt in a hardware keyboard - with the full library included and the ability to run third party stuff (from a USB drive or whatever). I don't mind if I have to connect a monitor for things like mapping sounds to zones - but I don't want to use a laptop or a desktop to host Kontakt.

Great player. I no longer have my old copies of Keyboard but I do remember that at one time he seemed to be in every issue of Keyboard in that Korg DW8000 (DW6000) advert. I see it didn't even get namechecked in the original 2001 thread.

Yes.

Italian company. I'd the GEM S2Turbo. "Wow it's a poor man's Kurzweil" was one comment at a studio session from the engineer. They did ones with built in speakers, gigging instruments like the S2 and S3 (61 and 76 notes), a cracking one called the Equinox that I think someone on here has and the Promega series (very heavy digital pianos). I have a pasive sub and two 12" tops that they did. Sound amazing. Sub is very light. Now the company's gone, gone, gone, wo - oo - oo - oo - oo SoundOnSound have some GEM / Generalmusic gear reviews. There's a piano module that's still worth owning (if you use a piano module).

I do my best to keep up to date with the various threads and gigging musicians on here - have I understood this right - you're replacing your current live rig with this? If so my curiosity is well and truely piqued.

Aye. Melodica Thunk.

Love that. A true working musicians' joke.

Mu ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Mu ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Just saying.

Yes - any idea why that is? Is it a copyright thing?

Running when I can (and running after the kids). Used to swim, run and bike. Started press-ups about a year ago. Easy to fit into a busy day. @LX88 - swimming daily in a lake - fab.

The Kenny G Michael Bolton thing - I'm still amazed that music has the power to reduce me to tears. I was crying from around 2:09. That little look Bolton gives him.

Pissoir - like it, and "cheek to cheek" ...

19th Hole Carnoustie (Hotel bar) - last Saturday night after the gig. Our young (19 and 21) cool tall skinny charismatic front men (vocals/guitars) were signing young girls bodies with marker pens. Not breasts - arms, shoulders, just above the bra strap - nothing that rock and roll or smutty. We'd just played Beautiful by One Direction and a crowd of them mobbed the lads at the end. Our drummer (my height - not tall, my build -not skinny, my age - not young) shouts over to me - "do you remember when the drummers used to get all the girls back in the 80s? It's all changed and now they all want the singer." What? When?

BTW - when I say "boring the mums" on the school run - that's not a euphemism.