The Mellotron Group

That's a good argument, but you don't see DX7 piano on a basic Nord
Lead sound set. Or look at the Electro series, Expensive, high end pro
oriented gear built wih Roms with the original sounds. Crappy is
relative: Rhodes have heavy action, Vakos have no action, clavs break
strings, electrolytics fail often in Arps. Great is relative: Do
people still want, nay, crave the sound 10, 20 years later.

I used to have this discussion with keyboard players a lot around the
time of the DX7.

gw

On 12/2/07, mellotronist <mellotronist@cox.net> wrote:
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> 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
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> >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.
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