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Post subject: NPD for me
Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2013 5:43 pm
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That means new piano day and not new pedal day.Today I went to our local pawn shop to see if there was anything interesting.First I saw a Randall 4-12 cabinet that was loaded with 2 Celestion Vintage 30s and 2 Celestion G-12-T-75s they only wanted $299 for it but sadly I had to pass it by because I didn't want to bring about a marital Armageddon,since I bought the Tele from Blinkers just a few days ago.I carried on looking and saw a lovely Yamaha NP-30 76 key piano with 2 great piano voices,2 organ voices,2 harpsichord voices and a strings setting that sounds amazingly like a DX-7's strings setting. It came with the stand and adapter too for only $165 and the best thing about it was that it didn't cause a nuclear meltdown.I will have my keyboard set-up pretty well covered now because this realistic sounding piano will go great with my Yamaha PSR-38 Midi compatable multi-voice keyboard,my Yamaha CS-01 Synth and my vintage Teischord-as in Teisco-combo organ that has the Farfisa/Vox Jaguar cheesy organ tone.

I recommended the cabinet to Blinkers because it would be the perfect cabinet for his new custom hand-wired Phaze amp and his new MIJ Strat which is an amazing guitar in it's own right-he has it on the Strat forum.

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Post subject: Re: NPD for me
Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2013 7:29 pm
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Cool. I've always wanted to take a stab at the keys.

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Post subject: Re: NPD for me
Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2013 3:53 pm
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Have fun with it - I picked it up as a second instrument about 25 years ago and love the sounds from my Chroma Polaris, Korg Triton and even an Akai MPK-49.

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Post subject: Re: NPD for me
Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 10:24 am
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My Missus downloaded the owner's manual for the keyboard from the Yamaha website and while looking through it I found out that it not only has more features than I though it had but it's MIDI compatable and I can hook it up to my Yamaha PSR-38 keyboard and by using 2 special patch cords I can set it up so both keyboards can "talk" to each other.

From what I can understand from it is that there is a way to configure them so that one keyboard acts as a controller and then if you use the voice doubling feature on both.You could conceivabley have one keyboard with piano and harpsichord and the other with strings and organ,making it sound like 4 keyboards are playing simultaineously.I wish that I had the technical know-how to work this stuff but it's just as well that it was written in ancient Mayan glyphs.

I need to pick up a multi-keyboard stand now in order to have the old combo,PSR-38,NP-30 and my old CS-01 synthesizer on the same stand.I am by no means an accomplished keyboard player,even though my mother taught me my first song before I turned 5 but that's as far as instruction went.Playing guitar played a great part in me learning to play keys,I knew what all the notes were so I would sit by the piano with my guitar and pick out the dominate notes in a chord and then transpose them to the corresponding notes on the piano.This method helped me pick out all the piano chords and all the rest was done by ear.

Super Kid,that old combo organ has the same voices as the Vox Jaguar and Farfisa FAS 5 (I believe that was the name of it)and sounds quite similar.My buddy,who now owns Reid Music,sold it to me for a mere $150 and then he sold me his old Model 16 Leslie cabinet for the same price.When I play that old thing through the Leslie with its vibrato set at the most intense setting,it sounds incredibley lush,especially with lots of reverb on the amp.I'm pretty well sure that it was made by the company that made Teisco guitars,it was also made with at least one other brand name-Orpheus.I imagine that I'll have to get some kind of mixer to run all 4 of them through,either that or use 2 or more amps for just keys.

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Post subject: Re: NPD for me
Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 11:48 am
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Congrats on the new gear Derek, your right about all that midi or whatever just can't get my head around it, been spending a bit of time with a recent ipad present to myself and downloading music based apps mostly keyboard apps, wonder if there's an "app for dummies" app


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Post subject: Re: NPD for me
Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 12:07 pm
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nice score man!!

been playing Pian-Ner for about 9 / 10 years now,

I have a few 88 key weighted yamaha's Digitals as well

one is a console thingy (PF500 - and it sounds just amazing, especially when I record something with it) and a P140 that is pretty easy to move about and also has very realistic piano sounds. (not as good as the PF500) I've been gasing for a CP300 to use playing live, but, I can't talk myself in to it.. (+2k$) and the sucker is heavy, the P140 is quite light and portable.

have fun man!


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