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#72151 - 11/27/99 01:52 PM
Re: psr8000 v. 9000
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Senior Member
Registered: 11/24/99
Posts: 3305
Loc: Reseda, California USA
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Hi Tom, My name is George Kaye and I'm new to this forum. I've been giving advice and discussing arranger keyboards on the Chris Hansen Arranger Discussion Group for about 6 months and his discussion group just moved to the BBS site this week. I am discovering many other groups I hadn't found yet. I own a Music Store in Southern California and I've been selling arranger keyboards for over 20 years. I am not a keyboard player, but I have a love and a desire to know all I can about all the diferent keyboards I sell. Because I sell Yamaha, Roland, Korg, Generalmusic and Solton keyboards, I have a good working knowledge of these fine keyboard lines. Many of the manufactures seek my opinion (for which I am grateful) on which features should be on newer models, and I have many friends at many of these US company's facilities. I just thought you might like to know my credentials. I had an opportunity to play the PSR9000 last month at Yamaha is Buena Park, Ca. for a few hours. At the Chris Hansen Arranger Sight I posted a rather lengthy reveiw of this new Keyboard. At the time of my viewing the 9000, the keyboard I used was a prototype and didn't have all features available yet. I can tell you this. If you can buy the 8000 for a very good price, it is a great keyboard. If the price is close to the 9000 than I would say wait. The other post before mine is very accurate. You can spend approx $1000 and buy a PSR740 which has the same styles, with 2 extra variations per style, the same sounds, the same vocal harmonizer (without all the editing) and a 16 track sequencer (however, there isn't much editing here either). In checking out the 9000 I noticed some things that annoyed me and I saw many things that were a leap foward. This is very typical for most manufactures. Some of the buttons have been placed in awkward to reach locations, yet I really enjoyed playing this keyboard. The sound system is awsome but I wish it was a little louder, and a few functions that were in the 8000 seem to be missing. However, after speaking to the marketing Mgr. for Yamaha, I have been told that a new operating system, which is on disk, will be available before the US gets it's first keyboards. I hope this helps, although the choices are great, but that's a good thing for you buyers. Any one of these three keyboards are wonderful to play and listen to. Any more questions I can be contacted here or at my store. George Kaye Kaye's Music Scene Reseda, Ca. 818-881-5566
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George Kaye Kaye's Music Scene (Closed after 51 years) West Hills, California (Retired 2021)
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