From tonysounds@yahoo.com Mon Apr 27 10:57:43 2009
Subject:Re: What is the best stage piano?

Wow Dave, that’s the kind of condescending and really uninformed response I would never expect out of you.  If Yamaha weren’t giving Stevie product to parade on stage, how likely would he to still be using it?  Not to mention that what Steve Wonder uses really has no bearing on “what the best stage piano” is. 
 
Little red toys?  The Stage is no more a toy than the XS8 or the XK3c.  None are the real deal, all are compromises, and all have strengths and weaknesses.  (Yes, the XK3c is an organ clone, but it’s a compromise at best.)  I don’t see any Hammond organs and leslies on Stevie Wonder’s stage either, but that doesn’t make them toys.    
 
Let’s elevate this conversation back to a level befitting its participants, shall we?
T

"The meek shall inherit nothing."  -FZ 
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--- On Mon, 4/27/09, djacques@csulb.edu wrote:

From: djacques@csulb.edu
Subject: Re: [CWSG] Re: What is the best stage piano?
To: "Clonewheel Group"
Date: Monday, April 27, 2009, 12:38 PM

All I have to add is that Stevie Wonder plays a Yamaha Motif Xs for his live shows. I don't see any silly red toys on his stage. .
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-----Original Message-----
From: abwdds@aol.com

Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:27:02
To:
Subject: Re: [CWSG] Re: What is the best stage piano?

I find the Kurzweil PC3X piano ("Stage Piano" patch, #2) is really
nice...comparable to the Yamaha piano sample in the Nord Stage...but I can't warm
up to the KB3 organs that it has implemented. If orchestral or vintage
sounds are important to you, the PC3x is the absolute king. But nothing can
touch the Hammond/Leslie combinations, or the Clavinets and the ability to
modify either sound, on the Nord Stage. In a jazz context, the Nord is the
only piano that convinces me absolutely that I am playing a piano. That
being said, I absolutely love my PC3x as well.
One little tick about the Nord (both the 88 and the Compact).... when
I really get into it, and play with gusto percussively onto the upper end
of the keyboard, it seems to trigger the chorus effect button somehow...very
strange !! Anybody else experience this ??????
-Alan
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