Hi Ian,
I think it may have been the 1000.
The card system looks familiar.
The KN800 was amazing. I also had it midied to my Atari. All the style tracks recorded across ( except for drums) & could be displayed in Notator's score display. Unfortunately drums didn't, they just recorded across as a program change.
Pretty exciting stuff 20 years ago.
Yes I had a Disklavier. Mine was only an upright & it was a fairly early one. It was all in one, though.
I already had a Yamaha Baby Grand, which hubby had bought , mainly as a beautiful piece of furniture for the living room. haahaa
I'd always wanted a pianola, the Disklavier was the ultimate pianola. There was an amazing range of piano disks available. I used to listen to it for hours.
Then there was also the plus side of the midi & recording functions. Realized I was not musical enough to play solo piano, but with an arranger for backing, I could play songs that would have taken me weeks if not months to learn as solo piano pieces..
Unfortunately, we downsized houses when the kids left, no space for the piano's.
I've got a Clavinova nowadays ( no arranger functions) , tucked away in a corner. I keep it mainly for my old collection of Disk Orchestra disks. I used to also run a Dom 30 with the Disklavier.
Bringing back fond memories.
No, I have never gigged, music's just been a hobby of mine for many years.
best wishes
Rikki
Originally posted by ianmcnll:
I remember seeing and playing the Technics KN-800 (I'm pretty sure that's the model)...I also remember thinking how advanced it was at the time...I believe it had features like ON BASS chording (you could play slash chords like F/G, or C/E ) and PCM sounds...I don't think Roland or Yamaha had those features, at the least the former one) and also the styles were simple, but were they ever well programmed.
You had a Disklavier? Awesome...remember having to adjust for the 500ms delay?
There was a control on the piano, just for that purpose.
I was at the showcase for the very first one (a grand)...it had a little wagon (looked like a heater) that held the electronics.
A lot of recording studios still use them.
Do you play gigs?
[This message has been edited by ianmcnll (edited 11-14-2009).]
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