From las8323@rs175174.ks.boeing.com Tue Oct 23 05:08:27 2001
Subject:RE: clone spotting

Har! You laugh!!

Hauling wood is *easy*. Lessee, 700lbs. of 7' grand? or 225lbs. of
"lookalike"? Bash up the lookalike? No problem. Hit it with some
black Krylon and the show goes on! Keep an extra Kurz around to slip
in the slot. Cheap! (for the big dogs)
Once you remove all the guts like the cast iron harp, full length keys,
pegs, strings, and fasteners, there's hardly anything left. Might
screw a couple struts in just to maintain rigidity. But no real
weight. 'Sides, it not just the weight it the fragile handling
of all that weight that commands your attention and people.

I've been doing something like this for a while. Very short chop
C3 (12" vertical) with my clone package inside. 90lbs. ALL the
comments have been to congratulate my chop, then they're ALL
slack jawed when they learn it's a CLONE.

Can't imagine why we haven't seen more of this -- of maybe we have
and just didn't KNOW it :-)

Larry

> Hauling a large piece of furniture around to house a K2500 is pretty
> amazing.
>
> I guess it gets rid of tuning and miking problems, but that's quite a lot of
> wood to haul. It looked like it was at least 7'!
>
> Thanks for solving that mystery, had never seen Kurzweil on the side of a
> grand piano before.
>
> Next week look for Jimmy Smith playing a pair of CX3s embedded in a B3
> cabinet!
>
> > Hate to be yet another Dan contributing to this, but I
> > actually have some
> > interesting facts on the Kurzweil Grand piano that Billy Joel plays.
> >
> > Kurzweil does not make acoustic pianos. And Billy Joel was
> > not playing an
> > acoustic piano, appearances to the contrary. Billy is
> > playing a Kurzweil
> > K2500XS synth than is embedded into a hollow acoustic piano
> > frame. The piano
> > does indeed say Kurzweil on it, but are no strings in it.
> >
> > Those who know the K2500 well know that it has a pretty good
> > stock piano, and
> > there are some sampled pianos that are potential even better.
> > I do not know
> > what Billy actually uses as his patch, but I ca guarantee you
> > with 100%
> > certainty that the sound is coming from a K2500. It actualy
> > is a good sound
> > since you don't have to worry about mic bleed from other
> > instruments on stage.
> >
> > Hope that solves the mystery.
> >
> > Dandy Dan
> >
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