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Tom Williams

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  1. I have had very good luck selling to, and buying from, Guitar Center despite the fact that the closet=st one to me is about 100 miles away. They'll ship from any GC to my house, and they don't use shipping as a stealth profit center. I've also traded in thousands of dollars' worth of stuff with them at several of their stores, and gotten a good deal on my stuff plus a discount when I applied it to purchasing stuff in that store. I've bought three used Kurzweils from them, one of which was defective on arrival -- and GC paid to have it shipped and fixed.
  2. How should we categorize 1-5 no third power chords that those funny guitar folk seem to like so much?
  3. Yup! That's why (just to be pedantic and annoying) when people ask me what music I like that I am no good at playing, I answer "Romantic Piano," which is technically accurate but functionally miscommunicates. But damn, those Romantic guys could write and play.
  4. That would be so cool -- my group would think I never make mistakes. Of course, my keyboard might go silent for minutes at a time.
  5. That's because I respect the truth more than I respect people. The alternative is to rewrite the historical record to suit current cultural fashion. IMO, that's profoundly dangerous, and outweighs whatever offense results from "disrespect".
  6. As it turns out, Ted Cassidy was a pretty talented keyboardist and singer. (He grew in the town where I live)
  7. I got dinged by humans here last year for referring to Wendy Carlos by the name on the original SOB album and birth certificate. I didn't even know there was such a thing as "dead naming," which is apparently more heinous than dropping an F-bomb.
  8. Wow -- Piano technology has finally arrived in the 21st 20th century! Quick Svengle to augment my memory: Reproducing pianos (including velocity and presumably pedals) have been around for a long time. Edvard Grieg "recorded" some of his own playing in 1906. Oh, and someone's selling a Steinway reproducing piano that was made in 1925.
  9. But wait, there's more! Corporations avoid moving their HQ to West Virginia because of our B&O tax. I heard that phrase for decades before I finally found out that it referred to "Business and Operation tax."
  10. What a wonderful phrase! I'll be stealing that one.
  11. I would recommend two songs to give an idea of Omartian's keyboard chops: "Jeremiah" and "Mainstream."
  12. Do I understand properly that due to the exciter also being the damper, the pianet, like a harpsichord, could not have a sustain pedal? If I have that right, on that basis alone I would prefer DW's damper-pedal-enabled patch to the real thing. Let the pitchforks and torches commence. I can take it.
  13. I have two two-tier onstage Z-stands for that very reason -- it's the only height- and tilt-adjustable second tier I could find. My PC4-7 sits maybe 3 inches (if that) above my 88-key Nektar controller. Unlike the Ultimate Support Apex (height adjustable, I admit), the On-Stage also leaves plenty of space for my numerous pedals. It's also solid as a proverbial rock. The only negative is that it takes time to set up and knock down, especially if you take it down to carrying-bag size..
  14. Big fan of Michael Omartian here. Bought a couple of his albums in the 80s. Omartian Odyssey in particular was quite mind blowing. Y'all probably know he did most of the arranging for Billy Joel's Piano Man album.
  15. Welcome back, dude! It's great to "hear" from you on the forum again Your youtube videos were a major factor in my PC3 / VAST education.
  16. I'm in -- Mike, feel free to get me onto the beta tester list. 😉 My first owned (vs borrowed) synth was a CZ-1, and it was a fantastic upgrade from the -1000 and the -101, providing both velocity and aftertouch, and very musical envelope generators. With a CZ-1 stacked over my EPS 13-minus, I felt invincible.
  17. A PC4-61 would presumably sell for about $1600; A K2700-61 would include a couple of pounds more iron, a wooden side plate, and sell for $2500 for the same amount of engineering effort. I would expect Kurz inc. to go for the higher price.
  18. You guys are harsh! Excepting maybe Avalon (who could've made a nice impression if he had played trumpet earlier, just to show that, well, he could play trumpet) and Walsh, I thought all of them (a) had fun, and (b) played in an entertaining manner. That includes decent licks by Osmond on the keytar.
  19. Depending on the price, I think I woulda gone for a K2(7)61 over my PC4-7, although I like the latter a great deal. Small and solid, with a semi-weighted 88 controller attached, would suit me fine. It would also be a helluva lot easier to find a case that fits it. Here's hoping Kurz doesn't price it in the unattainable (for me) Nord zone.
  20. I'm pretty sure the PC4 orchestral samples are either the same as, or a superset of, the PC3. Like you, I have both. Is it possible that it's a velocity response issue from playing on two different keybeds?
  21. She's, up dressing -- she'll be down in a jiffy. Committed to memory in 1978 or so.
  22. Great minds and all that. Moderators feel free to fold my thread into this one.
  23. Calliope (sort of) and bassoon (really) virtuoso. Very Full Professor of Musicology at the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople. Spent much of his career educating the public, Bernstein-style, about the quite justly forgotten music of P.D.Q. Bach. "Discoverer" of such works as the Sanka Cantata and the operetta "Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice." Dead at age 88. I guess he is now (technically) decomposing. Jokes aside (for a moment), he was a 1960 graduate of Julliard, master's in composition; scored the film Silent Running; and wrote (or co-wrote) the music to "Oh! Calcutta," the somewhat infamous mostly-nude off-Broadway musical. Schickele brought a lot of joy, and a decent amount of legit new knowledge, to my college education in the 1970s.
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