Yipe! I don't even remember having a keyboard at that convention! Maybe that was the 4-octave Casio I gave to my sister many years ago, but... no memory, and I'm not sure how much I traveled with it.
My electronic piano is actually two instruments. An 88-key Yamaha PF80, with full-size, weighted, touch-sensitive keys. It's nearing 30 years old now, and its native sounds are only vaguely piano-like. In the lower compartment of the end table it lives on, though, is a much newer Yamaha CBX-K1XG, which has three octaves of small, touch-sensitive keys — the keys are irrelevant, though, as I usually am using it for a sound box. MIDI goes out of the top keyboard, sound comes out the earphone jack of the bottom one and goes into the input jack (aha!) of the top one, and then comes out of the speakers sounding about 80% like a piano instead of about 35%.
I've occasionally moved this assemblage around for performance, though the volume isn't quite enough for, say, a large hall. On the other hand, running a cord from that earphone jack to one of my computers results in recordings that sound, well, about as good as it does in person, and since I can use Sound Forge to edit, I can produce a track good enough for some purposes. For instance, I recorded the piano part of "The Girl Friend of the Whirling Dervish" for an audition, back when we lived in Massachusetts. (For the record, it's the first time I auditioned with that song and didn't get a part.)
Recording a grand piano will doubtless require something more than what I have now. Something like a microphone or two. Getting a good recorded piano sound is one of the hardest challenges, so it's not likely happening soon.
Today, I think I'm reinstalling the system on this MacBook Pro. Tired of crashes, I'm briefly between jobs (Apple. Jobs. Almost room for a tired jest in there.), and I've backed everything up onto external drives, just in case.
Re: Pastoral Scene my friend
My electronic piano is actually two instruments. An 88-key Yamaha PF80, with full-size, weighted, touch-sensitive keys. It's nearing 30 years old now, and its native sounds are only vaguely piano-like. In the lower compartment of the end table it lives on, though, is a much newer Yamaha CBX-K1XG, which has three octaves of small, touch-sensitive keys — the keys are irrelevant, though, as I usually am using it for a sound box. MIDI goes out of the top keyboard, sound comes out the earphone jack of the bottom one and goes into the input jack (aha!) of the top one, and then comes out of the speakers sounding about 80% like a piano instead of about 35%.
I've occasionally moved this assemblage around for performance, though the volume isn't quite enough for, say, a large hall. On the other hand, running a cord from that earphone jack to one of my computers results in recordings that sound, well, about as good as it does in person, and since I can use Sound Forge to edit, I can produce a track good enough for some purposes. For instance, I recorded the piano part of "The Girl Friend of the Whirling Dervish" for an audition, back when we lived in Massachusetts. (For the record, it's the first time I auditioned with that song and didn't get a part.)
Recording a grand piano will doubtless require something more than what I have now. Something like a microphone or two. Getting a good recorded piano sound is one of the hardest challenges, so it's not likely happening soon.
Today, I think I'm reinstalling the system on this MacBook Pro. Tired of crashes, I'm briefly between jobs (Apple. Jobs. Almost room for a tired jest in there.), and I've backed everything up onto external drives, just in case.