urk10 Posted January 24, 2002 Share Posted January 24, 2002 If you could choose your sponsor what brand would be your choice? Personally,i would choose Yamaha,because their products,i think,are creative,professional and durable. Motif,EX5,CS6X,P-300,02r,etc.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbyjoe Posted January 24, 2002 Share Posted January 24, 2002 for my style of playing, definitely yamaha. playing live i would require a C7 grand. one problem - they don't have a drawbar keyboard yet, suprisingly. i read in a yammy mag that a dude who is endorsed by them also uses a b3, but all the rest is yammy. is that allowed under deals? pray for peace, kendall "Consider how much coffee you're drinking - it's probably not enough." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steadyb Posted January 24, 2002 Share Posted January 24, 2002 Steinway. I've already got most of the synths, and software I'll ever need or want, but a Steinway D...I've wanted a Steinway concert grand for 25 years. steadyb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Klopmeyer Posted January 24, 2002 Share Posted January 24, 2002 Porsche. I would look so damn good driving a silver Carrera 4 that they'd sell more of them to people wanting to be as cool as me. Plus, manufacturers of music and audio gear would want to see their keyboards, guitars, basses and so on in my Carrera. I'd let them do photo shoots of me and my Porsche for their ads. In case you thought I'm just kidding about the above...you're wrong. I want a damn Porsche and I'll never get one so I'm bitter. And I want to borrow steadyb's free Steinway. - Jeff Marketing Communications for MI/Pro Audio My solo music and stuff They Stole My Crayon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Fortner Posted January 24, 2002 Share Posted January 24, 2002 After playing one at NAMM, give me a Fazioli grand piano and I'll buy my own synths. Holy s**t what a nice piano. First one I've ever tried that gave me everything I want musicallty, exactly how I want. And a paltry $123K. Stephen Fortner Principal, Fortner Media Former Editor in Chief, Keyboard Magazine Digital Piano Consultant, Piano Buyer Magazine Industry affiliations: Antares, Arturia, Giles Communications, MS Media, Polyverse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Jones Posted January 24, 2002 Share Posted January 24, 2002 Originally posted by Jeff, TASCAM Guy: Porsche. I would look so damn good driving a silver Carrera 4 that they'd sell more of them to people wanting to be as cool as me. In case you thought I'm just kidding about the above...you're wrong. I want a damn Porsche and I'll never get one so I'm bitter. - Jeff Just for you, Jeff!!! http://autos.yahoo.com/newcars/details/porsche01911carrera4/ [ 01-24-2002: Message edited by: midirat ] "I may be a craven little coward, but I'm a greedy craven little coward." Daffy Duck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burningbusch Posted January 24, 2002 Share Posted January 24, 2002 I don't believe it's all that difficult to become a "Steinway Artist." As I understand it, you have to 1) own a Steinway and 2) have some level of accomplishment. This might be recognized playing ability, commercial success, or reputation. My last two teachers were Steinway Artists, one never ever released anything commercially and is really just known around as a great player and excellent jazz piano instructor. The other has had several commercial releases. There are composers who are not great players who are in this club as well. I believe what it gets you is 1) some recognition from Steinway and 2) the ability to rent pianos at no charge from their pool of artist pianos. You do have to pay transportation/tuning charges. All major cities with a Steinway dealer have these select pianos available. I played the Seattle Steinway B once. It was without question the finest B I've ever played. Wonderfully consistent in touch and tone across the entire instrument. They do deliberately save the best for the best. Also, AFAIK, anyone can rent from this pool. Busch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Klopmeyer Posted January 24, 2002 Share Posted January 24, 2002 Originally posted by midirat: Just for you, Jeff!!! Oh God, it's beautiful. And only about $75,000! Let's see...anyone got an extra $2,000/month they can give me for the next five years? - Jeff Marketing Communications for MI/Pro Audio My solo music and stuff They Stole My Crayon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Jones Posted January 24, 2002 Share Posted January 24, 2002 Originally posted by Jeff, TASCAM Guy: Oh God, it's beautiful. And only about $75,000! Let's see...anyone got an extra $2,000/month they can give me for the next five years? - Jeff Check Or MO??? "I may be a craven little coward, but I'm a greedy craven little coward." Daffy Duck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Klopmeyer Posted January 24, 2002 Share Posted January 24, 2002 Originally posted by midirat: Check Or MO??? Cash, please, in small bills. - Jeff Marketing Communications for MI/Pro Audio My solo music and stuff They Stole My Crayon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BP3 Posted January 24, 2002 Share Posted January 24, 2002 Originally posted by Jeff, TASCAM Guy: ...anyone got an extra $2,000/month they can give me for the next five years? - Jeff That's just for the insurance, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Jones Posted January 24, 2002 Share Posted January 24, 2002 Originally posted by Jeff, TASCAM Guy: Cash, please, in small bills. - Jeff The copier is warming as we speak!!!! Michael "I may be a craven little coward, but I'm a greedy craven little coward." Daffy Duck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Klopmeyer Posted January 25, 2002 Share Posted January 25, 2002 Originally posted by TinderArts: That's just for the insurance, right? Insurance? D'OH! - Jeff Marketing Communications for MI/Pro Audio My solo music and stuff They Stole My Crayon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coren Posted January 25, 2002 Share Posted January 25, 2002 personally id take the 911 GT2 over the carra 4... but if i didnt have a choice i would'nt be complaining how about we just pool our resources and get one? we can play soccer to see who gets to drive it (dodges fists... ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbyjoe Posted January 25, 2002 Share Posted January 25, 2002 jeff you are amazing, prophetic even. good work with the porsche thing. what if you don't like steinways though? yes i'm sure it is possible not to. i like their tone but not touch. a yamaha C7 (or bigger) does it. pray, k "Consider how much coffee you're drinking - it's probably not enough." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Klopmeyer Posted January 25, 2002 Share Posted January 25, 2002 Originally posted by jimbyjoe: what if you don't like steinways though? Pianos...are like women. Some guys like blondes. Some like brunettes. Some are partial to redheads. Some like skinny girls. Some like chubby girls. But most (heterosexual) men can enjoy the qualities of many different types of women. What was my point? Oh yeah. Anyway, some pianists like Steinways. Some like Bosendorfers. Some like Yamahas. Some like Faziolis. And so on. They're great pianos. You just may have a preference of one over another. And that preference is allowed to change, without reason or justification, as many times as you want it to over the course of your lifetime. Life, my friend, is a bowl of jellybeans. Just pick your color. - Jeff Marketing Communications for MI/Pro Audio My solo music and stuff They Stole My Crayon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS Posted January 25, 2002 Share Posted January 25, 2002 If Steinway and Fazioli merged and somehow Bosendorfer got into the act and they created a Fazwaydorfer, I'd like to be sponsored by them. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burningbusch Posted January 25, 2002 Share Posted January 25, 2002 Originally posted by jimbyjoe: Steinway...i like their tone but not touch. k You can always replace the Steinway action with a Renner. The Renner action is used in a lot of pianos (Steinway & Sons in Hamburg, Fazioli/Italy, Bösendorfer/Austria, Grotrian-Steinweg, Bechstein Ibach, Feurich, Seiler, Sauter, Steingräber & Söhne, Pfeiffer, Leipziger Pianofortefabrik, Zimmermann, Steinberg, Blüthner, and Förster. ...American pianos such as Baldwin, Charles Walter, and Mason & Hamlin.) Only the US Steinways have Steinway actions, the Hamburg ones use Renner. I would love to replace the action on my B with a Renner. It is a beautifully balanced action. http://www.rennerusa.com/ Busch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurie Z. Posted January 25, 2002 Share Posted January 25, 2002 Originally posted by Jeff, TASCAM Guy: Pianos...are like women. - Jeff Wow...and I always thought they were like men.... lz www.lauriez.com www.lauriez.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steadyb Posted January 25, 2002 Share Posted January 25, 2002 Originally posted by lauriez@lauriez.com: Wow...and I always thought they were like men.... lz www.lauriez.com ...if only they had a "sustain" pedal...eh, Laurie??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R_dup1 Posted January 25, 2002 Share Posted January 25, 2002 Originally posted by Jeff, TASCAM Guy: Oh God, it's beautiful. And only about $75,000! Let's see...anyone got an extra $2,000/month they can give me for the next five years? - Jeff Hey Jeff, My red 911 996 Cabriolet convertible is only $1,240 a month for 36 months, so there's hope for you. Remember, "There is no substitute!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Llarion Posted January 25, 2002 Share Posted January 25, 2002 I'd have to go with ROland... Mmmmm, VS-2480, V-session kit, my RD-500... great monitors... suchs a full and balanced product set for us multi-instrumentalists..yummers... Cheers! Phil "Llarion: The Jazzinator" Traynor www.llarion.com Smooth Jazz - QUESTION AUTHORITY. Go ahead, ask me anything. http://www.llarion.com/images/dichotomybanner.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurie Z. Posted January 25, 2002 Share Posted January 25, 2002 Originally posted by steadyb: ...if only they had a "sustain" pedal...eh, Laurie??? no comment, Mr. B.... lz www.lauriez.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steadyb Posted January 25, 2002 Share Posted January 25, 2002 Originally posted by lauriez@lauriez.com: no comment, Mr. B.... lz Lady, you got class. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coren Posted January 25, 2002 Share Posted January 25, 2002 Originally posted by steadyb: ...if only they had a "sustain" pedal...eh, Laurie??? well we do come with a pitch shifter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krakit Posted January 25, 2002 Share Posted January 25, 2002 Between Korg and Roland one of them owes me a sponsorship. I've been using both brands for almost 25 years now. Even my amp and monitors are Roland made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Klopmeyer Posted January 26, 2002 Share Posted January 26, 2002 Originally posted by coren5555: well we do come with a pitch shifter Whammy bar. - Jeff Marketing Communications for MI/Pro Audio My solo music and stuff They Stole My Crayon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superbobus Posted January 26, 2002 Share Posted January 26, 2002 Got a very old German grand, a Yammy CS6x and a Rhodes 54. Now, if Rhodes would still make these beautiful babies, I would definitely know the answer... http://www.bobwijnen.nl Hipness is not a state of mind, it's a fact of life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brittanylips Posted January 26, 2002 Share Posted January 26, 2002 Originally posted by burningbusch: You can always replace the Steinway action with a Renner. The Renner action is used in a lot of pianos (Steinway & Sons in Hamburg, Fazioli/Italy, Bösendorfer/Austria, Grotrian-Steinweg, Bechstein Ibach, Feurich, Seiler, Sauter, Steingräber & Söhne, Pfeiffer, Leipziger Pianofortefabrik, Zimmermann, Steinberg, Blüthner, and Förster. ...American pianos such as Baldwin, Charles Walter, and Mason & Hamlin.) Only the US Steinways have Steinway actions, the Hamburg ones use Renner. I would love to replace the action on my B with a Renner. It is a beautifully balanced action. http://www.rennerusa.com/ Busch. That's what I have -- a Stienway B with the Renner action. I got it that way from the Steinway factory in Queens, and had some additional work done (regulation, damper work, voicing, custom strings, etc.) after it left the factory. Interestingly enough, some years, Steinway was spitting out Bs with the Renner action. Most years, no. I think some of the parts from the NY Steinway are superior to their German counterpart, so for me, the perfect piano is the NY B with the Renner action (plus additional work that is so well worth the money, I can't even begin to say what a good thing it is to have it done -- in fact, no Steinway coming off the assembly line meets Steinway's own specs!) SteadyB: I am not alone in preferring the B to the D. Many pianists who I know feel that the B is superior. In many ways it is more perfectly proportioned, and is known as the "Artist's Grand." The D is big so that it is loud enough to carry in big halls, but given the choice, I'd rather play a great B. Plus, with a name like SteadyB, you gotta like the B! Comparing Steinway to the upscale European types: for me it's like Jeff's Porsche vs. a Rolls. The Porsche is the "car's car." It's the one that makes your spine tingle when you accelerate and leave the other poor bastards in their family sedans in the dust. The Rolls is like the big cushy Burzondolfer (sp?). Beautiful on the outside, perfectly machined, that extra octave -- what a sound! -- but it's not a "musician's piano" in the same way a Steinway is. You can drive a Steinway. A Burzondolfer drives you like a Rolls. I recently played a Burzondolfer at the house of some rich bitch I visited in Cali who had two. Why would anybody buy two Burzondolfers when they could buy 2 Porsches and 2 Steinways --one for them, one for Jeff -- with the same amount of dough? Even for the same price, I'd still take the Steinway. -Peace, Love, and BrittanyLips [ 01-26-2002: Message edited by: Brittanylips ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmix Posted January 26, 2002 Share Posted January 26, 2002 On the hardware side it would have to be Sony. I'll take an Oxford, a pair of Sony 3348HR's, a couple C-800G's, and that sampling reverb of theirs. On the software side, Emagic of course. I've got Logic and Sounddiver, still waiting on the ES-1, EXS and EVP-88. The amazing thing is most people get endorsements after they've got a few hits and can finally afford to buy anything they want. Rob [ 01-26-2002: Message edited by: robmix ] Rob Hoffman http://www.robmixmusic.com Los Angeles, CA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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