I remember dragging my CP25 electric piano to gigs in the early 80's. What a beast. Made my Hohner Clavinet feel pretty light and my Poly Six like a paper weight. Today's boards feel like feather weights in comparison. Still, the CP25 was lighter than the custom speakers we had made for the soundsystem.

Back then a lot of KB players used Bass amps, me included. I had a trusty old Fender Bassman when I started out. What was heavy were the cabinets. Originally each had 2 15 inch Altec Lansing woofers, mid range horns, and piezos. I had to redesign so that each cabinet only had one woofer, and even then they were still pretty heavy.

I'm not a particularly big guy ( 5'8"), but back then I was in rather good shape at a rock solid 185 lbs or so, and I managed ok. Now.. the weight is still there but it's redistributed itself more than just a bit.


As much as I like my AJ2006 system, it is higher maintenance than a dedicated hardware and perhaps it's more suited for studio work. In the studio it outshines anything I've ever played in my life. It's also become really easy for me to play it as an arranger using the Es as a controller. Still, for simplicity and more bells and whistles "in front of me ", I'm still considering a new hardware arranger just for live work and will rule nothing out at this point, not even the top enders.

AJ


[This message has been edited by Bluezplayer (edited 11-07-2005).]

I would keep my Kurzweil K 2600S

Don't remind me. I used to gig with a Technics E66 (and later an EX70 then a GN9) which were all professionally cut in half to allow us to carry them. They had special made trolley so we could load them. Plus all of the amplification, kit and other bit's and pieces - makes todays keyboards look like feather weights

Anyway as far as which one - I'm a little torn between my KN7K and PA1X. Love them both.

In an ideal world I'd love to own them all

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Technics E66






[This message has been edited by Dnj (edited 11-07-2005).]

dnj what's that thing ?

"But I stil hate this plastic crap the're making now too flimsy

You're gonna love the SD1. It's NOT plastic.
Woops, I let it slip. Oh well, they won't notice will they?
DonM

How much do you think I could get for my Kn6000?Thanks.
Ron

Hiya Frank,
wasn't game to mention Rikki2006 arranger system. haahaa It's definately held my interest for longer than any of my keyboards ever have, mainly because it's upgradeable.
best wishes
Rikki
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Frank L. Rosenthal:
[B]flr2006 software based arranger system.

....things are just getting better all the time. I bet I would even pick the Rikki2006 and the AJ2006 software systems above all other hardware systems out there.