Hi, this is Shiyu's father. Thanks for all your comments, including those from the Yahama-europe.com board.

Over the years, I learned quite a lot from this board.I must say Shiyu also has benefited a lot from this board. In China, there are hundreds of kids like Shiyu with similar performance level. He is certainly not the best. He still needs to improve himself.

To Scottyee: Last time, you mentioned about your interests in voices of Chinese instruments. You should definately try the new Roland GW-7. It boasts about almost all voices of Chinese intruments. To my understanding, the prices should be well around $600 once it hits the US market.

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Thanks Sylion, the GW-7 definitely sounds like an cool sounding keyboard. Are you planning to purchase one for Shiyu now?

Here's a link to Roland's China website:
http://www.roland.com.cn/roland.htm
http://www.roland.com.cn/gw_7/index.htm


In addition to inclusion of all Chinese Instrument Voices, does the GW-7 also include any auto accompanment features or arranger styles?

I hope I'm wrong here, but I suspect the GW-7 may be marketed to Asian Countries only and may not become available in the US. In the meantime, I'll keep a look out for the GW-7 to appear in the USA and will be sure to check it out.

Regarding Shiyu's fine performance on the Yamaha PSR2000. What specific Yamaha voices (instruments) were used to emulate the "traditional Chinese acoustic instruments"? What was the PSR2000's scale tune setting: "Function > Master Tune - Scale Tune" set at?

How about the styles? Were these preset styles included in his PSR2000 keyboard itself or were custom styles created? I'm wondering if Yamaha includes DIFFERENT instrument voices as well as different styles on their keyboards targeted to Asian Country markets.

I'm very interested in obtaining some authentic traditional and/or contemporary Chinese styles in Yamaha (.sty) format. Sylion, any possibility you could email me some for me to checkout and play on my Yamaha Tyros?

Thanks,

Scott


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Hi,Scottyee.

I do not plan to buy GW-7 for my son. IMO, GW-7 is hard to operate, especially that it does NOT have registration-memory feature like Yamaha PSR series. I think it is more approriate as a second keyboard for those interested.

As described in the manual, GW-7 has about 20 built-in chinese styles. I chatted with an employee of Roland China today, he assures me that GW-7 will be marketed to US although the built-in voices and styles might be slightly different from those in China.

You do not need to tune the keyboard to play Chinese music. The PSR 2000 sold in China is not different from that in the world. Shiyu just uses the built-in voices and styles to mimic the voices and styles of Chinese instruments.

Afterall, there are only a few people in China actually own PSR 2000, so there is almost none DIY autocompanion styles. I am also searching for Chinese Styles. Once I find one, I will definately email it to you.


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