From schwartz.adan@epa.gov Wed Jan 02 10:41:43 2002
Subject:Price speculations Re: Nord Rack-Mount Electro!

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> Nord Lead 2 keyb: 1300$ MSRP: 1800$
> Nord Lead 2 rack: 1000$ MSRP: 1400$
>
> Nord Lead 3 keyb: 1800$* MSRP: 2700$
> Nord Lead 3 rack: 2000$ MSRP: 2500$
> * actual special.
>
> Nord Electro 73 : 1900$ MSRP: 2400$
> Nord Electro 61 : 1750$ MSRP: 2200$
> Nord Elect. rack: 1620$** MSRP: 2050$*
>

Odd how Nord takes so little off the price for its rack versions.
Even odder: the 73 is $200 more MSRP than the 61. That's $200 for 12
more keys, but the rack price (as projected by Etienne), would be $150
less than the 61. So the first 61 keys cost $150, but those extra 12
are another $200 on top of that.

I suspect the main reason people will go for the rackmount is they
want a different action than the Electro provides. I have a
Electro 61 and as I've commented before, it is, initially at least,
strange to be playing rhodes sounds with such a light action. But you
can get used to it. Moreover, you can grow to love it, but for me
that essentially required developing a whole new technique from what I
would use on my Mark I. Developing that technique has been quite a
"project" for me (still ongoing, of course). No doubt many people
will want to use a weighted action board with the Electro rack so that
they can let their fingers keep doing what they're used to doing.

I finally read the Sound on Sound review of the Electro and he really
slams it for the light action for piano sounds. He also criticizes
the velocity response, though personally I feel the velocity response
of the Electro keyboard is a wonder -- very expressive for rhodes and
wurli.

The action of the Electro works fine for organ, though it does nothing
to diminish my love of the action on the CX-3. The CX-3 also took
some getting used to, but now I don't want to play organ on any other
keyboard. But I think if you were going to use the Electro for
primarily as a Hammond clone, you might as well get the keyboard
version.

Adan