re Pete

I did appreciate his personal perspective. But myself, I can't stop playing period. There is too much music out there to learn. Especially classical. Bach, Scarlatti, Mozart, Beethoven, etc. would take me a lifetime. Who can play all the rags? Debussy and Ravel? Having an audience? Sure, it's nice. But I bet he didn't need an audience all the time to develop. Shit like this pandemic is just making us stress out. No, learning never stops. Damn the covid.

Picked up Rode M5 Compact 1/2" Condenser Microphone - Matched Pair. Hope they work ok for acoustic piano. Would of liked couple of the NT5 with caps but little out of budget.

Thanks. Yes, good perspective.

Thanks for replying. I have a K&M 18950 with stacker at home. It is a rock solid beast, but a little too heavy to transport for me. Looking for something similar but lighter. Is there much difference between the two?

Interesting. Wonder who did the scaling. And price of M7.

Considering another stand and these Griffins kind of appealed to me. Made in USA maybe I hope. The one in the OP topic: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004THB8OW/ref=s9_acsd_topr_hd_bw_bXEHm7_cr_x__w?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-5&pf_rd_r=81PVMYA20SA5ABGZZ4AR&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=c889d048-0eaf-5f4b-a43b-6b31076adc94&pf_rd_i=491024011 But kind of like this below one better, but out of stock. Contacted supply and they say will be in stock around May 2021. Anyone have this one? Need 33" width for organ pedals. Thoughts? https://geekstands.com/products/2-tier-keyboard-stand

At a past work situation, there was a DHL delivery guy who would just drop packages off anywhere in the building, mark it in his paperwork as delivered and leave. I hated DHL for that. However, when I got my Mojo years ago, DHL was the delivery service. The guy couldn't of been nicer. The outer box had a hole in it, but did not harm anything in the inner box. Mojo was fine. I also ordered an Kronos2 88. Came across the country via UPS and was just dropped off in the middle of my driveway after I gave instructions to notify me when delivered. Didn't happen. Twice! As I had to return the Kronos first delivered due to damage. The second one was delivered in the same way, but fortunately no damage as it didn't travel as far with UPS. Someone could of easily ripped off an expensive board in my driveway twice. A UPS driver I once knew told me they don't care. The insurance company they have, it's just peanut to them playing the percentages. Bottom line is they want to deliver a package. Drugs...use your imagination. So, personally I know it's easy to blame the company, but it's the workers good or bad. These days we have not much of a choice. It's not an easy job though. They bake in them UPS trucks in the summer.

Love the action on A90, but those keys can crack around the weights. Didn't Roland stop selling the keys to customers awhile ago? I think they acknowledged they were defective and offered new sets at around $300 if memory serves. I've had some that broke and had to repair with epoxy. I wrapped a twist tie in the hole first, trimmed it, epoxied then filed so they could get back in place. I'd check out the key weights when you open it up and if you see cracks, I'd reinforce them with epoxy as a safeguard. I agree, the felt is probably just the same you can get at any piano supply. Just measure. I've read about there being an update that was out there from Roland that could render the board useless with no fix. Anyone know about that? It's a great board IMO.

I would like to see Casio do a folding piano.

Voicing and if needed fabric diluted softener should help with that.

Why push it when the finish line is in view?

I hear obvious rhythmic influence from "Poinciana" in this Stevie cover, not to mention a shared taste in lively treatment of space and silence between Monty and Ahmad. Monty openly praises Ahmad for being one of his major sources of inspiration and influence. If we don't hear outright "Ahmad licks" in Monty's playing, it's most likely because he's tasteful and creative enough to not fall into reinventing Ahmad's wheels in his own compositions. Ditto

I hear obvious rhythmic influence from "Poinciana" in this Stevie cover, not to mention a shared taste in lively treatment of space and silence between Monty and Ahmad. Monty openly praises Ahmad for being one of his major sources of inspiration and influence. If we don't hear outright "Ahmad licks" in Monty's playing, it's most likely because he's tasteful and creative enough to not fall into reinventing Ahmad's wheels in his own compositions. Ditto

Great stuff. Can hear Ahmad Jamal influence.

Sad news. I hear him playing classical on the radio every now and then. Just goes to show one complements the other. Hope he makes a full recovery.

Thanks for sharing. Great stuff. I think at 3:38 he showed he's human, sounded like a half step off on last note. If he did miss it, that's a first for my ears hearing his recordings. The jam session was great. Wish I knew all their names. Yesterdays sounded like he got it worked out, not on the fly. I'm probably wrong though and doesn't matter to me.

Love the statue. He also wrote music for the film August. Funny movie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_(1996_film)

Interesting subject memory. This pandemic allowed more time for practice. Getting old has me looking into trying to play more efficiently to avoid injury. Playing with weight. Younger days if entered in a competition you have to play without music obviously. Repetition and getting into that flow usually just got it done. But catch 22 of trying to read more music allows one to play more stuff and get better at sight reading, but I got out of flow of memorizing pieces. Even though you get old, I'm sure if I applied myself to memorize pieces I could. It's a matter of time and priority. I'm trying to play more pieces to experience playing them, getting them under my fingers and reading them. But, I'm trying to commit to memorizing some pieces per year. Classical side. I'm amazed at how top classical pianists not only play them but from memory. http://forum.pianoworld.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/3020891/when-is-a-piece-officially-learned.html#Post3020891 Student of Claudio Arrau lectures worth viewing weight subject Yuja Wang amazing technique https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgw820VNW0w

Wonder if Casio could put a hinge or split this somehow. https://www.musiciansfriend.com/keyboards-midi/casio-cdp-s100-compact-digital-piano/l47034000001000?cntry=us&source=3WWRWXGP

Good luck with the surgery. I had labrum surgery years ago and maybe tore something there again. Get pain sometimes but have been living with it. Due to my age, wondering if worth fixing. One result of it is, if wearing a tee shirt the neck part of shirt droops toward that shoulder.

I'm no scientist. But after Australia fires last year and other big fires climate change can't be helping. https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/24/weather/california-wildfires-climate-change/index.html

Very sorry if anyone suffered home damage. Personally, as much as I would love a cabin in the woods, if I couldn't protect it somehow from fire I would be worrying too much. If someone came up with fireproof tarps or something for homes that work, I imagine they'd make money. Did read about some guy selling expensive spray that is questionable. On top of this, the pine beetle is doing a real number on the northern forests killing trees. The winter temps have to get very low to help kill them off, and climate change seems to be holding it up to get that low.

That was really nice. Thanks!

I got an early Mojo classic 2 manual when they first near came out. At the time, it was between that or a Hammond XK3c. Couldn't find either to play, so just went by web reviews and what videos were out. The leslie sim and choice of different organs I liked. I wish I had this light an organ decades ago. I'm very happy with it. The touch is not as light as they offer now I believe. But I got used to it. I did have some notes hanging a couple times like others reported. But after it was suggested to use a UPS due to needing clean steady power being it's a computer inside. Once I got a UPS, I have had no problems with strange behavior from it. There's so many good choices now you probably can't go wrong with whatever you decide.

That was really nice. The Steinway sounded well tuned and nice venue. Did you do all the video recording and editing yourself solo or others involved? Beautiful style of music.