Yep, that's why I said earlier, I'm glad I'm not that much of a perfectionist...I can get quite a bit of realism if I add the sax track afterwards, but I'm also just as content to lose a bit and play in real time. As long as my listener can at least recognize the instrument I am emulating, that works for me just fine.

Playing the arranger has always had a huge element of fun in it, and I made a promise to myself a long time ago, that I would quit if it was no longer fun. What is really cool, is that since I've retired, it has actually become even more fun than ever, and, I'm actually playing the Tyros4 far more often, way more than I did when working.

Probably this is due to my playing with a lot more freedom, as I used to have to learn tunes that were more likely to showcase the arranger's features, and they weren't necessarily tunes I wanted to record or just sit down and enjoy playing for it's own sake.

I've got some tentative plans for playing some working gigs after the winter, but I also won't be disappointed if they don't materialize. Losing three very close friends the past year or so, has made me not only reflect even more on living each day to the fullest, but to also, to take things even less seriously than I had been doing.

My uncle used to say, "Death is a great teacher." I now more fully understand what he meant by it.

I didn't intend for this post to become all philosophical...so, back to the real fun...playing!

Ian

Ian,

You know that some of the audiences listening to KB been played would not be able to recognise a grand from an upright, a trumpet from a trombone, blah blah blah, what is all this about, when these old Gits are sat in their own poop in an APH, I can just image them being experts then. I am becoming very philosophical more by the day, I mean lets face it, a breathy sax or trumpet on a KB who gives a toss, about two here on SZ and perhaps world wide.

How about a breathy guitar... for old gits guitar players with rheumatic, from serious T5 Demo to serious tosh

All you are describing Tony, is YOUR audience! Mine knows what they are listening to. But those Homes for the Deaf are good gigs if you can get them!

This is perhaps why Yamaha don't sell many KB in the USA, this is like that old Lionstracs demo on YouTube, pretty poor.

The Tryrooooos 5

But an Honest demo..

You want us to go out and find every excremental T5 demo from the EU, Tony?

Shouldn't be hard...

Don't want YOU to do anything Diki

Is that it Donny!! When someone goes into a shop in the USA and gets a demo like that would they buy a T5, doubt it, maybe buy a guitar.

Just in case you thought I was been a bit unfair, another reason
to buy a guitar from this shop or a mouthorgan