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Originally posted by Diki:
You think any of US are good enough to have played with Dorsey's band...?

I'm sorry, but musicians were musicians back then... How many of us could sit down and play a big band gig on piano? Most of us here would have been born 50 or 75 years too EARLY, if we had been born back then... There was no one finger chords, there was no sequencers, you played every note they heard.

Happy days...


Well, I know how to read music...

I know how to play piano...

I can also sing or harmonize...

I know how to listen...

...just like many of those guys in the storied big bands.

I'm sure several of us, who can and do perform on an acoustic piano and know the music could make a pretty good run at it. I've been playing acoustic for a long time...I've never used anything but on any gig with more than a duo...

The biggest difference would come down to talent. As it should. Would any of us be a superstar? Who knows? I do know there were alot more really good players than "great" players...

Were some of these guys absolute monster players? yes, no doubt...My point is those of us who don't use one finger, let's say...put us in the same environment, same rehearsal opportunities with those bands...I think many of us could not embarrass ourselves...

BTW, I wouldn't know how to work my Tyros 2 with one finger if I had to, lol...

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Bill in Dayton

[This message has been edited by Bill in Dayton (edited 11-27-2008).]
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Bill in Dayton