Hey MR Bulk!
Well, here in England, you don't have to go too far to find Keyboard/Arranger Players (in the local Pub etc - very common)....or a Keyboard shop at all - and not just arrangers, but Synths as well. There is a Shop that sells the Yamaha 9000, KN6500,VA5/7 PA80, PSR740, and 1000/2000 (he will have them in now I think)....
300 Metres from my house!!
Suppose I think this dealers prices are too high (which they are a little), I only have to go 8 Miles to Derby - and there are about 3 or four shops (on my last visit), that do Arrangers and Synths in the same shop. Of course, if I don't like Derby food - I can always grab a Taxi and go to Nottingham - which is 4 miles from derby, and find even more shops with Arrangers and Synths (as well as Guitars/Drums/Samplers/Mixers/Mic's Hi tech etc. If I don't like Nottingham food, you can always.......(you get the drift!)
It seems almost impossible to miss a city - or town that DOESN’T have a Keyboard in it! Here is a list of shops in UK that sell Technics Arrangers alone - and that is not counting Roland/Korg/Yamaha etc - but some of these shops will sell them as well
Technics Dealers well over a Hundred
If you scroll down the list, you will see the name of that shop which is 300 metres from me (Ripley, Fowlers music). And there are a lot more were they came from.
We have a Keyboardist every week at the local, but every 8-12 weeks, we have a man called
"Fuzzy fingers" playing at the Local Pub. He is a specialist player, and uses loads of tackle. He Uses foot pedals for his bass - rather than the onboard patterns (they sound super). The keyboards/Sound modules he uses seem to change everytime I see him!. A Technics KN6000, Korg Triton ProX (88 key - which he plays the KN6000 Piano through), and a Roland VA76 complete his keyboard set-up (mounted on a 3 tier Stand), with a XV3080 underneath somewhere - I saw one - I did! Not to mention Mixers (it was a Yamaha AW44HD I believe) and Amps, etc. Must be £20,000 worth. Now I know why they can only afford to have him not so frequently.
To your question about
"are there a lot more Arranger Keyboard players in Europe than here" - well, the fact that there are so many shops with arrangers & Synths etc, means there will be more people buying them - because there is more access to the keyboards/shops themselves...and you don't have to drive 1000's of miles to see one!!!
Tony, England
[This message has been edited by Jupiter5 (edited 08-28-2001).]
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