[Is Progressive Rock Keyboard Playing a Priority ?]

I'm just happy to play Firth Of Fifth on my home piano.

[Corona Virus thread]

To simply prorate the Chinese visitor numbers equally 1.2 million is 100,000 a month so many thousands of Chinese visitors just through LAX alone in January before Chinese travel was shut down. If you go back to November then it's about 300,000 Chinese visitors. LA should have predated New York, not be following it. My comments about the "California Mystery" still stands. Bob

Very interesting indeed.

[New Synth Wizards episode - CS 80 repair]

Fun video - very clever. I remember Sam from the 1980s. We were almost kids back then.

[Diversion - Peanuts kill Frampton]

A 1985 memory just popped into my head. When Bob Mayo phoned Ensoniq after buying a Mirage. We had a nice chat. Fun days.

[Diversion - Peanuts kill Frampton]

Thanks waygetter, for the post. What a creative and fun way to relive a slice of history. So many memories.

[Anyone Been Affected by the Coronavirus?]

I'm a public speaker and conferences are cancelling due to Coronavirus.. One of my mid-March conferences just cancelled this morning. Probably creating a nightmare scenario for meeting planners, hotels and conference centers. How do they recover? Might lead to litigious situations. We'll see.

[Keyboards in the days before great PA?]

You had roadies, or the other band folk helped with the cartage, right?

Yes, everyone helped.

 

[Keyboards in the days before great PA?]

My rig a few years later. The Univox Multiman is on my left. The keyboard stack is a Lowrey LSO (with build-in Leslie), Rhodes 88 and Moog Prodigy on top.

 

[OT: I feel like i am annoying?]

You don't annoy me, but if you feel you're annoying then make a different choice.

[Keyboards in the days before great PA?]

I posted this in the past. My first rig (1976). Univox Multiman on a homemade stand. 100W Univox bass amp. Homemade speaker cabinet w/two 12" Celestions and two piezos. This setup served me well for the first two years.

sweet looking build

 

I could not find one for sale. Many of the 2/S variety, which run around 500. Was that a newer one?

 

Paolo demos the 2/S......Nobody does it better

 

My first exposure to these early Crumars. Do you remember what yours cost?

Hey uhoh7,

 

The Univox Multiman came out first (built in Italy for Univox) in about 1975 and was distributed by Unicord. I paid $835 for my Multiman in 1976. Not long afterwards, the Crumar keyboard brand emerged and the Multiman was re-branded. By about 1978 or so, Crumar re-engineered the Multiman into the Orchestrator and the sounds were different. My preference was the original - it had the sweetest strings. Very versatile keyboard - a real workhorse.

[Behringer synths now available for pre-order]

To be honest, I'm not sure what I'd do as a replacement/upgrade for any of the keyboards I've got.

This is how I feel. The keyboards I already own have not been exploited for all they're worth.

 

I'm on the edge of retirement with cash to burn and there are too many choices out there. My rational brain says to buy Behringer's Odyssey and POLY D this year. Wait until next year for Behringer's OBX and CS-80.

 

[Keyboards in the days before great PA?]

I posted this in the past. My first rig (1976). Univox Multiman on a homemade stand. 100W Univox bass amp. Homemade speaker cabinet w/two 12" Celestions and two piezos. This setup served me well for the first two years.

 

 

This how it looked like during a gig.

 

[Synthplex 2020]

Bummer. I'm speaking in Las Vegas on March 25th, then I gotta drive east to serve Midwest clients. I'd love to attend this.

[Will 8 track tapes become the next hipster thing ?]

This serendipitous FB photo just appeared.

[My new studio IS finished!]

Stunning! Makes quite a statement.

[Will 8 track tapes become the next hipster thing ?]

I'd rather put myself out of business than have someone do it to me.True that.

Andy Grove, ex-Intel CEO, believed in killing their cash cow. Grove called it being the ultimate cannibal. Intel's R&D primary job was to put their current CPU out of business.

[Will 8 track tapes become the next hipster thing ?]

Talk about redundancy. During last five decades I bought the same albums on vinyl, cassette, 8 track, CD and mp3. And somehow the music industry couldn't figure out a way to survive. I suppose "The Internet" is the obvious reason for the music industry's demise.

[RIP Lyle Mays]

Sad news. Just watched one of his concerts two weeks ago. RIP.

[Rosen Sound]

Yep.

[Why no more songs with witty titles?]

As the only person on the road cruising in to work today I had Procol Harum's Broken Barricades turned up to 11 in the car. Now long time since I last listened to this album and looked down to check the name of the current song. It was Playmate of the Mouth.

 

Lead me to the thought that in my yoof from Frank Zappa on "We Are Only In It For The Money" there were a lot of witty, wry and play on words or phrases, Song and Album titles.

 

So why, and when, did this stop?

And I thought I was the only person who ever bought this album. Great tune. Broken Barricades is a big favorite,

[New Celviano GP-310 and 510]

I invested in the GP300 five years ago - when it first came out. Love it. The sound and the feel are terrific. Fit, form and function are high quality.

 

I wonder what new benefits/features the GP310 delivers.

[Climbing Everest-Post 10k]

Terrific news, ProfD. Thanks for your wisdom and input.

[Your introduction to Prog Rock ...]

Watched this again today. Prog Rock Britannia - BBC. Never gets old.

[Manufacturer Request--Sampling Keyboard]

I know I'm the only dinosaur KB player who would love to have a new version of the Ensoniq ASR-10.

I made many mortgage payments selling Ensoniq ASR-10's. I wouldn't be mad if history repeated itself.

The Ensoniq School and Retail Salesperson Incentive boosted ASR-10 sales and rewarded retail sales folks. Ensoniq invested heavily in both the school and the incentive program....and not just in money. There was a boatload of human capital involved in vision, planning, disciplined administration, follow up and attention to detail. It all paid off.

 

The ASR-10 sales lifespan exceeded expectations and we built more than expected. While this sounds like good news, it wreaked some havoc. As the service manager, I did a last-time-buy on the ASR-10 floppy drives years prior when the drive's manufacturer ceased production of that floppy drive model. This was a couple of years prior to the ASR-10's scheduled production end. So I was sitting on ample floppy drive inventory to cover years of future ASR-10 spare parts and repairs. Then, I was told to surrender hundreds of my ASR-10 floppy drives for new ASR-10 production. I was pissed at the time. It all worked out in the end.

 

The ASR-10 was solidly built.

[Behringer IPO Article]

Just saw THIS today on LinkedIn. Interesting read. Sorry to those who are not on LinkedIn.

 

I'm not a finance wiz, but I always wished I had bought early IPOs of the big tech companies. The stories about those who bought Apple stock early are legendary.