Originally posted by keysvocalssax:
Originally posted by cassp:
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First off, nobody wants to play substandard equipment; not even the "greats." They would walk away from it before they played it.
i know several excellent jazz pianists who
play substandard keyboards and amps. of course
if you sat them down in a room of kb's, they
would pick one they liked better..but they don't want to be bothered keeping up w/technology. they play what they got a deal
on years ago and that's that. it's a lot like
most people who invest in a stereo and that's
that for the next 20 years. and there are those "audiophiles" who are constantly searching, searching, searching for better
components (and who listen so critically for
every nuance it's hard to understand how they
can just relax and enjoy the music. I was playing sax at a jam where the kb player had an old old Yammie kb set to piano sound that was nowhere near anything you can get today, yet he was a great player so nobody cared--he was surprised when he heard i played some kb and asked me to sit in..i begged off and told
him i was just a synth guy, not a pianist--
he said "oh yeah synths are cool, i've played
a DX7 every now and then." to him, synth means DX7!!! guys like him never keep up with the latest..they don't care about it (for good or bad) the live in another world from most of us here.
[/B]I guess we differ in our understanding of "substandard." Something bought 30 years ago is not necessarily substandard. I was thinking more of rickety & missing keys than the sound engine. My 1970's Casio CT-100 is surely substandard by today's measure, but it still plays well and sounds as good as it did back then.
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