http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/EliteSyncopations/ Elite Syncopations Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:07:46 GMT jazzpianist http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/EliteSyncopations/message/9542 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/EliteSyncopations/message/9542 I have been down for the count with the flu. Not THE flu, thank goodness, but one that has me home-bound and unhappy. In my coherent moments I put some of the Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:18:01 GMT fredmcain2003 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/EliteSyncopations/message/9541 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/EliteSyncopations/message/9541 Bill & Group, Thanks again for your help and responses ! Regards, Fred M Cain Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:07:32 GMT http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/EliteSyncopations/message/9539 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/EliteSyncopations/message/9539 Reminder from: EliteSyncopations Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EliteSyncopations/cal West Coast Ragtime Society 2009 Festival Friday November 20, Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:58:28 GMT jazzpianist http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/EliteSyncopations/message/9538 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/EliteSyncopations/message/9538 ... Actually - if you press the sustain pedal to hold bass notes while you play a chord, and are playing other notes in the right hand, or want to create a Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:43:40 GMT William http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/EliteSyncopations/message/9537 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/EliteSyncopations/message/9537 Hi, Fred, I was needing to equip myself with a digital about fifteen years ago, and I did not have a budget. Whatever fit my needs was what I would buy. My Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:47:58 GMT Sergey Smirnov http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/EliteSyncopations/message/9536 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/EliteSyncopations/message/9536 Hey all My family owns a nice Kawai MP4, and it's doing the job of a keyboard very well. The ECYS has borrowed it from me as it always sounds good onstage :) I Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:27:23 GMT RsH http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/EliteSyncopations/message/9535 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/EliteSyncopations/message/9535 We live on the 12th floor of a 23 story condo, and HAD a wooden piano, which we ended up giving to our daughter-in-law's sister, when she agreed to pay to move Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:02:32 GMT jazzpianist http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/EliteSyncopations/message/9534 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/EliteSyncopations/message/9534 ... Good points Bryan. I would add that a digital piano and a keyboard generally have similar memory capacity for nearly the same money, which also makes a Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:55:32 GMT jazzpianist http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/EliteSyncopations/message/9533 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/EliteSyncopations/message/9533 To enhance the previous thread, a few current recommendations. For a console-piano type of experience, the Williams keyboards have got decent reviews as of Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:53:49 GMT Bryan Cather http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/EliteSyncopations/message/9532 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/EliteSyncopations/message/9532 The magic phrase in this is "without spending $1,000.  There are some truly amazing electronic pianos out there.  Roland sells one that allows the performer Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:40:58 GMT jazzpianist http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/EliteSyncopations/message/9531 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/EliteSyncopations/message/9531 Hi Fred. This sounded familiar. Then I found out it was familiar. So you might try first re-looking at the thread started a couple of years ago by yourself Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:24:02 GMT fredmcain2003 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/EliteSyncopations/message/9530 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/EliteSyncopations/message/9530 Group, I was wondering if someone might care to shed some light on electric pianos or "keyboards" as some folks call them. I am in a most unfortunate position Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:16:33 GMT ragtime_fanatic http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/EliteSyncopations/message/9529 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/EliteSyncopations/message/9529 Hi Dr. Pinsker, Thanks for your post - I've long been interested in this subject and found your insight very interesting. I've done lots of experimentation Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:49:17 GMT ragtime_fanatic http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/EliteSyncopations/message/9528 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/EliteSyncopations/message/9528 Hi Bryan, I should clarify a couple things: The well-known roll that most people have heard (featured on one of those Boigraph LPs, etc.) is Master Record Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:23:58 GMT Bryan Cather http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/EliteSyncopations/message/9527 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/EliteSyncopations/message/9527 I don't have the National SSR, what I DO have is a three National coin pianos.  Here's where I throw the monkeywrench into the "hand played" thing. The three