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- From: beltran@ns.network.com (Tony R. Beltran)
- Subject: Re: Hammered keyboards
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- In article <1jk6lgINNh8i@calvin.usc.edu> alves@calvin.usc.edu (William Alves) writes:
- [stuff deleted] >tently. The only other MIDI keyboards I know of that
- >have true hammer
- >action are the Yamaha diskclavier and the Yamaha MIDI grand. Both pretty
- >expensive and don't let them tell you that the MIDI sensors have no
- >effect on the action. Playing a diskclavier is like playing a piano
- >immersed in molasses.
- >
- >Bill
- The Roland FP-8 has real hammers. They aren't used to generate the
- notes. They simply strike a felt strip under the keys to give a
- more acoustic piano feel. The keys seem to have a consistent
- feel across all 88 keys. But with this as any other keyboard, like
- and dislike are strictly personal preference. I like it better than
- any keyboard I have tried, but I certainly didn't have access to all
- makes and models, such as the Baldwin mentioned in this thread or
- the Wersi model. So it all comes down to the advice that try them
- all where possible and select the one you like.
-
- Tony
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