In a message dated 1/21/2007 12:55:55 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, atuneforyou at earthlink.net writes: Greetings from beautiful down town Anaheim...and that's not in LA. I almost hate to bring this up as it seems the acoustic vs electric thread finally has died out. While at the NAMM show I was in the Bosendorfer room and lisned to a new proto type electric piano with a real piano action in it. This thing really kicked a_______. I just happened to get lucky and hear an incredible pianist Keneth Crouch play it for a while. I asked for any literature on the thing and was told they had already passed out all they had. Not in production yet but would retail at about 50 k in U.S. Now I'm not suggesting it was as good as the Imperial Grand right next to it. I'm just saying this seemed to me to be the state of the art next generation of electric instruments. Did anyone else get to hear it? Steve Steve et al I bought a little 4'?" Howard grand a couple of years ago,,, I was on the fence as to maybe junking the piano and using the action as a controller. It would need a case with possibly a rubber rail with the appropriate duro meter hardness to act as a surface to replace the strings. this case would need a substantial key bed like a hardwood laminate board. probably would be pretty heavy but an action like that is not itself very heavy. Could fit a midi contact bar under the keys, The contact wouldn't be at the hammer/string but the feel ,after touch, velocity could be close i would think. I didn't follow thru with the idea, I went ahead and did a bridge/epoxy repair, sb repair, restrung it and sold it. Would like to try the controller retro thing someday, has anyone else done anything along these lines ? Tom Ayers Highland -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070121/bd8179e8/attachment.html
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