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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.

Dan you are the man. The squares all have little piezzo triggers don't they? And you use the legs of a shop mannequin - with leg warmers and a Flashdance welding mask - to tap on the giant squares and play the synth riff to New Order's "Blue Monday"? You do, don't you? Actually ignore the question marks. You do. Don't spoil it for me. By the time I hit the school run I'll be boring the mums with the details of the medley you play on it - big finish with Aha's "Take On Me." You are the man Dan. (BTW quite right with the tambourine seekers - loved her response but those things are a disaster in the hands of the untrained - even a cutey who's just "hard of rhythm").

linwood - (ouch for that clip BTW) - in the links showing underneath I clocked one called "this drummer's in the wrong band" - give it a view if you haven't seen it. (EDIT) - yellow jackets showing in photo and it's actually "wrong band" not "wrong gig" in the title

+1 for the 76 key option. Used to have a horse box sized trailer thing and a big estate to pull it along. I get by with a little Toyota Yaris now (and try to choose venues with in house PAs).

Comic: So, it's a music forum ... let me see, how many guitar players does it take to change a light bulb? Audience: Are the guitar players playing through solid state or tube amps? C: What? That doesn't matter ... A: It matters to them. C: Ok then how many keyboard players does it take to change a lightbulb? A: Are they using presets or their own sounds? C: What? It doesn't matter ... A: It matters to them. C: Ok. I'll try again. How many jazz players does it take to change a light bulb. A: Jazzers? C: Yes, jazzers. Light bulb. How many of them to change it. A: By change you mean ... C: I mean change it. Change it. For f**k's sake, it's not that hard. A: Change the light bulb. C: Yes. A: Jazz musicians. C: Yes jazz musicians. Taking a light bulb and substituting another one. A: Which substitutions are they using? Have they agreed them in advance ... C: Good night folks. Nothing to laugh at here ...

How many characters in a Bruce Springsteen song does it take to change a light bulb? One to change it, one to contemplate the dystopian reality of the American Dream now that his girlfriend is pregnant and the factory is closing, and one to drive his car round the streets late at night while demonstrating a rather cavalier attitude to road safety and the local speed limits.