From ahorne345@aol.com Sat Dec 10 13:43:40 2016
Subject:Re: XK-5 warnings...!

With what's being said about the HS XK-5... in 1999, I made the biggest mistake of my organ playing life. After extensive A/B-ing a Hammond XK-2 and a Roland VK-7, I found the latter to be aeons ahead of the former, I mean the sound was so, SO much more authentic. The feel? Well, synth-y keys on an organ don't do it for me but I'm sure I could've really enjoyed the Roland anyway. I bought the XK-2. I mean, why not... it was a HAMMOND! And OH, the pain... this was ended 3 years later by a CX-3 (the latter of the 2002 CX-3s, that is the kind without that lip on the keys), 6 years later a Nord C-1, later enhanced by a Vent. Point being NEVER AGAIN will I buy anything based solely on a name, even as renowned a name as HAMMOND. God, was I dumb...

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