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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Top 10 Worst Keyboards

From: "mellotronist" <mellotronist@cox.net>
Date: 2007-12-02

A lot of crappy keyboards have served many artists very well. It's because
even though they were crappy keyboards, they were the only ones they had to
use and they had to make them work for them. I'd be quite willing to bet
that most of the artists who used them bitched about how crappy they were
while they were using them, and wished that there was something less crappy
available. Just because some great music managed to be created using them
doesn't make them any less crappy.






>I thought those Hohner keyboards (Pianet, Clavinet) were some of the
> best ever. They had service issues but they had that expressive
> potential that some truly bad ones did not have. They served Van Der
> Graaf, Stevie Wonder (on the the 3 good lps) and Gentle Giant very
> well. They are standard sound set items.