What have They Done to the KN7000

Have a look at the 'Pop-Up' here!!! www.KN7000.de

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Willum

Bit like a flattened accordion for those with weak chests eh Bill... I saw one of those on tele just the other day for the first time...you know the way if you see someone playing a keyboard you want a closer look at what he/she has got, and wondered at the time why someone had gone to all the trouble of converting a normal keyboard ...now I know!!
Roger M

these have a market on the Continent and quite a few maufacturers have versions of accordion keyboards on show at Frankfurt every year

On Solton's versions you can rise up the "accordeon", and
the only thing missing is the "airbag"
GJ

Hi Alec, Good to see you back - we missed your cheery face here You've obviously been a busy bee again.
So, is this purely a mechanical overlay(surely not!) or does it connect to the keyboard via MIDI ?

While I'm here Alec, can anything be done with KN5000 .RCM files to allow reading by KN7000?

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Willum

[This message has been edited by Bill Norrie (edited 06-24-2003).]

I remember the first cordovox had the left hand keyboard laying along side the right hand keyboard in a very similar fashion....
t.

various interests have asked me for keyboard projects, so I've been busy, and will be for the forseeable future. I'm into dvd editing now and next job will be getting tv and satellite onto hard drive at dvd quality to make disks, now that ripping is automated and regional coding defeated. Then movies are easily transferred to my pocket video players.
Also finally got the camera under full laptop remote control including sequential download between shots, so can do fully automatic programmable time lapse photography.

The keyboard is simply replaced with an accordion version and the system reprogrammed to suit.... but I would not like to wear a 7k round my neck

The answer's in the 6k book, Willum you need a 5k to convert to composer.

Tony,
my brother has still (as an old family-'museum'-piece) and old 'Pianorgan'. A standing piano-construction: left hand the accordion-bass-buttons and right hand the keys (and only 1 sound: the sound of accordion and accordianbasses). With the right knee you could 'pump'up the volume. On those times was 'Klavarscribo' a way to read by an easy way music, in stead of the normal notation. I'm speaking about the year 1958 (woow, a long time ago )
Greetings,
Cees
P.S. in spite of that: with music-reading it has never become good

cees .... 1958 is NOT that long ago ..... It's the year I graduated high school and I'm still YOUNG ..
t.

So Tony, does this make you one of Cees' old family museum pieces ?

Alec, Thanks - I've been doing a few that way but of course it's a bit long winded - just wondered if there was a quicker way

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Willum

Bill(and for Tony ); I forgot to mention that the 'old museum-piece' is still in good shape and works well
Cees

Yep, maybe not QUITE as well as before, but still working well!!!
t.

Don't knock the 5-row chromatic keyboard until you have tried it. If you had NEVER SEEN a standard "piano type" keyboard, then maybe you would have welcomed a system which has no "2nd class" keys (the black ones are shorter, narrower, and generally a pain in the neck). A chromatic buttonboard, however is so instinctive that it is soon understood - only one scale to learn, only one set of chords, the ability to easily span up to two octaves with the right hand. If you watch some of the French, Scandinavian, or Russian players, you will realise that some of their music would be impossible on a "piano" keyboard. The version of the KN7K has a full 120 bass (as in a regular accordion) and the treble buttons have a bigger range than most other keyboards.
Mike O'R

Hey Mike, I wasn't Knocking it - It just came as a bit of a shock

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Willum