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Just back from a 3 day music festival at Taranaki. Babylon Circus, Dub Colossus and the Skaltalites were the stand out "modern" acts, Amal Murkus, Gochag Askarov and Kamel el Haraachi the stand out "traditional" players. No mellotrons alas. I was interested to see that Nords and Korgs dominated the keyboards used especially the Korg CX3 and X50.. The sounds used were mainly electric pianos, Rhodes and Wurlitzer and the Hammond B3. I suppose not many people will tour with the orginal instruments now. Odd that most of the keyboards seem to be designed mainly to emulate sounds from 50-70 years ago. I can't think of any really new keyboard sounds produced over the last 20 years. As the original instruments age, appreciate in value and crumble to dust I suppose emulations will be all that we are left with. Mark |