From pjprevitejr@yahoo.com Thu Aug 26 06:54:34 2010
Subject:Re: "Swiss Army Knife" Keyboard...

I remember Farfisa coming out with a line of combo organs (VIP?) years ago that were 2-manual.  The upper manual contained the organ sounds (as well as a "Synth-Slalom) effect.  The lower manual featured "lower manual" organ sounds as well as mechanical keyboard sounds (piano, etc).  The action wasn't any different between the two manuals that I could recall but the lower was "velocity sensitive" to a degree.  Farfisa's intent was to give you both kinds of keyboards on one instrument.
I always thought that if Clavia had a similar configuration on something along the line of their C1/C2 cabinet with both an upper non-weighted waterfall keybed and a lower weighted keybed that played the piano, electric piano and clav sounds it would be a hit.
 
Peter

--- On Thu, 8/26/10, rrockkey wrote:
Maybe the "Swiss army knife" KB is not the way to go after all? 



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