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Thanks elsongs for showing us this & perfect timing as I'll learn this for an upcoming gig in a few weeks. Thanks Billy & give us a few more new songs where you're still behind a piano. Thats what i love about this forum is you find stuff you may not have found yourself so quickly. Man this was just released and I heard it here first.

Oh no...but what a long term of service from the forerunner of all our present slimline piano slabs. "I tips me hat" again to technics. I look forwad to seeing what you decide to replace it with. Happy hunting.

I can help here the lighter ones are the Stay Compact (single tier) and Stay Slim (2 tier). Both can hold 20 kg maximum but says 10kg per tier on the Slim but I assessed that as both use the same tower and legs then it can handle a max of 20kg. Made for 61 note keyboards but I use an 88note Casio Px330 (11.5kg) on it. I have placed an 8kg keyboard above that too and it was fine but i didnt play that much to test. In Brazil where they are made they are sold as a standard combo with a PX5s etc. Handles the 11.5kg of my PX330 really well but still some bounce as with any bazooka stand. Very high quality stand. The 7 to 8kg is the larger bazooka stand called the Stay Tower and handles more weight. Its more akin to the other brand Bazooka stands like the Apex and is meant for 76 note keyboards. They sell a piano stand that utilizes 2 of the uprights from a Slim stand for use with heavy pianos. The Slim i have is so light at 3 odd kg and i feel as stable as my old Apex stand but half the weight with a quick setup.

To be sharp If you're given the right key you can play in any flat. After gig symphony?

You have a collection of soccer mums?

I still have my EX8000 i bought new plus 2 of the deducated storage devices . Its been in storage since the day but hoping to get at soon once my house move is complete.

OMG but how cute are they when captured on video on the internet?

It looks like a quality desktop module From photos it could definitely pass as factory made.

Pictures or it didn't happen. Or should I say video evidence?

This is brilliant. Love to know more

Hey Paul Im always interested in conversions like this and I saw this somewhere last week and my first thought (to take nothing away from his work) was why such a basic keybed to use when there are so many to choose from. Especially adding weights to it when he could have choosen a weighted one to be done with it. Great furniture job with great attention to detail non the less There is a more closer to the point one that a fellow did years ago in the styles of a Rhodes elsewhere on the net. Worth a look at if you are interested in coversions.

Now Keytar: my favourite looking "sling on" as i called them in the 80s (still hate the word keytar but its easier to explain by using it to modern people) As for keytar nothing could beat a Lync for looks and by what i read performance. Always wanted one but very rare in Australia so i bought a Roland AX1 which to me was a "look a like" if not for the want of using a more sinister word. Its functions were virtually identical to my Roland A30 controller i had. Believe they were cousins. It was Ok operationally but only 2 limited zones compared to 4 on the Lync.

Now my organ preference. Yes for organ i agree on this. I had a Vox Jaguar and always loved the design

Agreed.....The first decent looking piano. I always wished i got one but went later for various early Casios Privias before the modern streamlined Privias which look like they share the shape of this one. The early privias definately followed the Technics portability but it wasnt till the later privias that they shared a striking similarity in looks. this Technics still outshines in looks any piano thats been made in my opinion

To be more resolute

Ha...so its like the Tabloid of the keyboard world.

It's red.

I think i may still have one similar to this i remember that image pr a similar one although i think mine was green. Cant check it as in storage.

I read it as Marinara as in the Sauce

Thanks mate might have been a hotel. I frequented Turrumurra music and the Lombardis had one of their stores on the north side. Smaller shops that might had needed to hire a bigger venue. Do shops now a days still do these things. Probably not due to internet coverage. Edit: it may have been from yamaha direct rather than a shop. A lot of music corporations were located down the northern beaches such as Roland. Maybe yamaha itself hired a hotel venue Man you got me racking my memories

I was there too. My jaw was trampled on. That wasnt your foot standing on it dazz? If i remember rightly it was at The Music Man? I think in York St. I went to a number of different releases and i cant remember which stores but The Music Man rings a bell as i had done all the design and artwork for the store and also for the single cover and promotional stuff for the band the RAZZ (american jazz standards and swing). Who the principal of the store (Con Westerberg) was a member of. I think the band was based at the store. I remember taking a used synth as part payment for the store artwork. I think it was an older Acetone synth precursor of Roland (Ace Tone PS-1000?) Does The Music Man ring a bell? Edit: ive just googled and found my single cover i did may have been 1981 so before this so may have been a Juno 6 or 60 or Korg Poly 6 release there? I remember buying my Korg Trident after seeing the Poly6 release. Anyway curious dazz if you can remember which shop You saw the release? Sydney in those days was great for keyboard releases.

Wow getting anything into an Attic must be so difficult. Im sitting here thinking of pulley systems to get gear up. Here in Australia attics aren't common and basements virtually non existant so those in home lugging difficulties are not something we face here as much. So do you need to move the 73 up and down or keep it just for gigging downstairs. Yes the bottom octave is what id want to keep. I used to use 73 and 76 note keyboards in the 90s but now id like to again but i find very few sold now with the lower octave I have a second Privia PX330 thats damaged on right hand end and a few chipped keys (and presently not working) and im intending cutting it down to a 73 or 76 (depending on how the keys are linked) but keeping the lower octave. That means a non symmetrical fascia and one side having a speaker grille and the display offset to the right but having the lower octave appeals to me. Im not sure how much weight i can save (especially as i have a 7 kg 88 note super light weight Numa Cocal 2x and it may not be worth the hassle but a new house move should leave me space to leave it on a work bench for as long as i need to experiment.

Danskeys great read. i checked out the first Stage when it came out as i was chasing a new board years ago but the keybed felt like i was hitting slugs. (Are they called slugs in US those snails without a house on its back?). It also was too heavy physically. Anyway it turned me off them to this day. I know they have improved the keybed on them but now they are too common. (I hate running with the pack) What initially attracted me was that it was an ensemble keyboard with easy access along the lines of my first synth a Korg Trident where it had a synth (with piano patches), a horn section, and a string section all in one with easy tweaking. The red also was a big positive as id always wanted to paint a keyboard red since owning my Vox Jaguar. But its weight and crap keybed for such an expensive keyboard turned me off them. Ironically i bought instead a Privia PX330 simply because it felt very piano like and was lightweight to carry. I did miss out on the tweaking and zoning but i felt like i was playing a piano onstage not a sluggo. I guess the piano feel and portability was far more important to me

You are in luck ive heard that Nord is introducing a new product its called the "Red Kazoo" Unforunately its has Nord pricing but size wise thats only relative for a "cheap bastard" hee hee

One thats over looked a Hartke KM60 Keyboard Amplifier (60 Watts, 1x10") I think possibly discontinued now but i bought one around 5 years ago when i joined a band and my vintage amp karked it. So to look proactive as a problem solver when i couldnt fix it I did a quick look on ebay and found one of these thru a distributer and thus had it by next practice. Took a chance on it and was very happy. My only gripe is the name I aways forget how its spelt. I had to look up the name just now to spell it. Hartke. H a r t k e Just giving you an alternative that i never hear mentioned