WesG

Wow...I was really hoping this problem had finally been solved. I have a 18880 and am not a fan of its durability. Lost screws have surprised me at my destination three times now. I'm using a lowly X-stand most most of the time these days for single-board gigs. Single braced, the clamp style, without a pin. I have a Yorkville table top stand that is pretty good, but big and heavy. I tend to use that one when I am providing for a rental....I want the customer to have something rock-solid. I need to find a small-footprint double decker, though, that can take a 50 lbs RD800 on the top tier. My usual stand for that board is a Hammond A100, but I'd like to be able to put it on top of my Electro 5D instead. Ideally, a triple-decker that would let me throw my VR09 in the middle so that I can have a two-manual organ. Have any of you tried the Apex AX-48 Pro Plus? The mic stand attachment will be a nice bonus. I think Dan Long used to have something like this one in his profile pic? I have an old Quick-Lok column stand that weighs 7,000 lbs. It almost works. I had to build a platform for my expression pedal because the feet were in the way. It also sags, but I shimmed the sag out of it with a couple of 10d nails. And it's a royal pain to carry without hitting stuff. I hate it.

I don't know Cars, but the intro and especially the ending of jump are the type of thing that I think you would benefit from, in terms of feel.

I don't know anything about teaching the piano, and I'm not a particularly gifted player. But I get paid to play in bands in bars, and it's the funnest part of my life. So, here's my advice: keep screwing around with L&L if you want .... but play the shit out of "Home Sweet Home". The whole song. Play it a lot. Play it until you're sick of it, and then play it some more. Learn the lyrics, memorize them, and sing over the verses. Memorize the piano part, too. Then play and sing at the same time. All the while using a metronome some of the time. I can hear you trying when you play. Once you got it, I won't hear you trying. I'll just hear you playing. PS: You might also enjoy "I Don't Like Mondays", in particular, the intro.

Yeah, but...I really /am/ a fraud.

The problem with testing everyone is the resources involved. Aside from the limited number of test kits available, it takes what..4 hours to run a sample on a PCR machine which might only be able to run 20 tests at a time....this means 120 tests per machine per day......how many machines are there in your hospital? Probably only a couple. It would actually be faster to assume everyone is positive, quarantine the entire nation for 3 or 4 weeks, and take anybody who is really sick to the hospital for treatment. Of course...there are obvious logical problems with that solution.

I have long thought about taking an AO-28 or (slightly-modified AO-29) and mounting it in a box with an expression pedal and outlet box. Any decent clone would sound good through a rig like that, I bet. I think it goes something like 10% - input device 10% - preamp 20% - expression pedal 50% - leslie

My hand independence is pretty good - I can use either of them pretty good, independently. It's my hand togetherness that's an issue. Mitch, that was a beautiful tribute to Sal. I tried taking that advice, twice. I have a transcription of a bass line Scott Hawthorn wrote for Keyboard Magazine(?) in the 80s. Jazz Blues in F. Both times ended up with my wife yelling at me because she can't stand listening to me play nothin' but bass. Maybe I should suck it up and use headphones. I despise headphones.. and fake Leslies almost as much. So I play mostly boogie-woogie piano derived bass lines on the organ, and it's a good thing I don't play those in public. I haven't ingrained that jazz-organ-blues that you were playing yet. BTW, were those "ah-ONE" same-note hits octave spread? Sounded like it. I love how the 16' foldback works WITH you on the organ and how wrong I was when I thought I wanted bass-all-the-way-down as an organ newb. Bass is a funny creature, though. As a mostly-rock player, I don't play much. I did a bunch of work on jazz walking a few years ago, with a bit advice and encouragement from John (I Miss Richard Tee) via this forum. I can fake my way through standards now, as long as I only have to play bass and comp. The minute I have to play the head, or, worse yet, a solo, it all falls apart. I just can't think of two things at the same time. I will also cover bass at Big Band rehearsals when the bass player doesn't show up for whatever reason. The last time this happened, we rehearsed a tune that had a pretty important piano part. I walked bass, comped, and sang my part. It was hilarious. I'll also cover bass at the odd rehearsal with my rock band for similar reasons. Boy, you really know whether you know a song or not when you try to add a bass line without a chart. Some of those tunes, I have been playing so long they are just there with muscle memory. I consider that knowing the part, not the tune. But bass and piano lessons have a funny way of sticking in your brain. I was trying to work out the (brilliant!!!) solo in "You Win Again" from The Grateful Dead's Europe '72 album, and noticed -- to my complete surprise -- that I was playing a simple bass line that my teacher must have taught me about 30 years ago....that I gave up on about 29 years ago... The old 1+5 1+5 1+6 1+6, swung eighth notes. Nice to know those lessons are still in there somewhere.

Nobody who was serious had a Leslie 122 back in the day. They had four...or six of them.

Add is gone. Did you buy it? You should have bought those 50Cs that were for sale last month.

I don't care what this is, I have "Night and Day" in my head now, and I feel GREAT.

ATH-M50x ..... extremely useful, since the majority of the time, if I am playing with headphones on, I am also listening intently to something and trying to figure out how it goes. These are very clear, detailed, and do not miss any nuance.

Nice! It's good when a rusty one goes a "car guy". That's how I learned to deal with rust, too.

That rust is way more than a few drinks. I'm thinking leaking ceiling.

Jesus. That needs serious attention if that organ's going to last another 20 years.

Leave reverb off. 99.99999% of the time you're harming the out-front mix instead of helping. The primary purpose for reverb in a digital piano is to sound good in the music store. Other effects, I use the shit out of them!

But, but, that's just at 147 in a tolex cab! I really like the shorties, I mix from stage a lot and they are just the right height for my X32. Not ideal, sonically, but space is at a premium most places.

The 860 has an 8-ohm Atlas, but the 760 is absolutely a V21. Although if I were taking one on the road, I'd sub in an Atlas PD-5VH. 30W into a V21 makes me a bit nervous. If I had to make a guess, I'd venture that they may have wanted a beefier driver in the 860 so that they could lower the crossover frequency a bit and take some pressure off the bottom amp for the 12" speaker.

I think you should get both. The 760 is a great speaker. I really like them for certain flavours of rock, R&B. They are basically a 147 that gets really loud before it breaks up....and then it goes HARD. And nice even-order distortion from the interstage coupling transformers. Same basic amp design as a Rhodes piano. One of these days, I'm going to throw a 760 into a 145 cabinet. FWIW - they use the exact same motors, rotor, horn driver, and horn as a 122/145/etc. Different woofer, different amps, ugly cabinet. But the cabinet is very durable and pretty much a 122/147 cab if you ignore the skin.

This has been brought up before. The sheet music posted at the start of this thread is wrong. The cowbell part starts with a four bar rest, there is a four bar rest at the start of each verse, and there is no cowbell at all during the solo between the 2nd and 3rd verses. During the solo, the percussion player should be reaching for a long-sustain vibra-slap...

What a mess! The key channels themselves aren't a big deal as long as the rust is on the inside. Outside rust should be removed to prevent key-to-key rubbing. It's not a big deal because better keys are readily available from scrapped M3s. The metal on the manuals themselves is zinc-plated steel. The zinc forms not only a physical barrier between the atmosphere and the rust, but it also acts electrochemically to retard the growth of nearby steel. Using a rust converter will further damage the zinc layer, but at least will turn red iron oxide (cancer) into black iron oxide (stable). My preference is to use mechanical means to the remove as much rust as possible without damaging the zinc layer, then converting what's left by meticulously brushing it on with a paint brush and wiping away as soon as the reaction has slowed. Then I paint with a cold galvanizing paint which is 99% zinc, to restore as much of the factory protection as I can. Wes

There's no real difference between 30 and 40 watts (about 2dB) in terms of sound output. Tube Leslies are just not loud enough for rock bands. Hell, I sit beside one and get a whole bunch put in my wedge. Otherwise, I have to play ff - fff just to hear myself...so using a wedge like that gives me the ability to play anywhere from mp - fff -- way more musical.

It's not really as bad as you make it out to be. About 200W of that is the motors.

I am also consulting with Booker Lab. The LBBs sound fantastic IMO. Note that Leslie never made a preamp pedal for the 6H interface (122, 142, 22H, etc), however the Trek-II UC1A would also work. BTW, attaching the LBB preamp to the back the Leslie isn't the only choice. I hang mine below my clonewheel (on the rare occasionals I use one) so that I can reach the tone controls.

I don't find a significant schlep difference between my RD800 and my CP4, and this about the weight difference you're discussing. I schlep them both in rolling gator bags (GK-88 and GK-88-SLIM). In fact, I schlepped both just yesterday...different gigs One consideration is stairs, which suck going up but are find going doing in one of these bags. I generally play organ also, though, so no-stairs is already a strong gig preference.

I"ve seen a few complaints about lifting heavy PA speakers in this thread. Guys, buy some Hercules crank stands. Seriously. Just do it. They are awesome.