🚀 go-pugleaf

"G." wrote:
> 
> joa1@xnet.com writes:
> 
> >> > > My point still stands: if someone really wants to play an instrument,
> >> > > they'll play whatever they can get their hands on, be it cheap or good.
> >> > >
> >> > > smr
> 
> >my first drumset was a used slingerland kit that my band
> >director gave me cuz' the school was throwing it away...i
> >brought it home and spray-painted it, scotch-taped the
> >broken heads (they didn't have duc-tape back then), and i
> >learned to play
> >
> >then came a new Ludwig kit, a Rogers set, a new Slingerland
> >double-bass kit, a Tama, Gretch, Yamaha and the kit i have
> >today - some thirty-eight years after i started drumming...i
> >admire people who don't have shit and make fucking cool-aid
> >or however the saying goes
> 
> just be glad you guys don't play the piano

Actually, I recently bought a nice Yamaha which has excellent technology
sensing key rate-of-descent and initial forces, etc etc., all of which gives
it an extremely piano-like response. With it set to "portable grand" it
sounds just about like a very nice real Yamaha grand-piano... plus it's got
about 255 other settings and is fully MIDI controllable, 16-voice
polyphonic. And it talks to my computer, which has a SoundBlaster Platinum
5.1 Live which itself has full MIDI and another 32 voices...

the computer would be hard to carry around, but the Yamaha isn't, and it was
something like $149.99.

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