http://www.wersi.net/sonic_en.html

I was at music store in k�ln ( Germany) today and played this organ for about an hour, awesome performance, sounded as real is my own set-up with Pa3x, NI Maschine and VSTs, but felt much more compact, i just love the two keybeds and the karge screen and the new interface... And the black finish was just breathtaking ( looks)

Really loved the new UI, compared to the old one its ligtyears evolved.


I talked to some people and they confirmed two rumors ...
1) there might be a cheaper abacus pro version of this organ by the end of the year
2) its expected to support ketron Audya styles format by the end of the year (allready supports yamaha styles natively). (Tweaked Psr styles on Sonic sounded better then on T5)

On top of that, it might support more then just 16 vsts and 16 vst effects in the future..

Took Wersi two years to finalise the Organ and get it to customers.

You were there on Saturday, I guess? I've never made it there yet, although it is Germany's largest brick and mortar music store and only 60 miles from my place.

Thats what i said, posted this saturday evening, but somehow the timestamp says Sunday...

We probably dont live that far appart, i was born in Maastricht, thats less then 60 miles from K�ln, i think its well worth to drive there from time to time, they have a lot of instruments to test out inthere... Just bring your headset and you have a guaranteed day of fun..

Maastricht... off-topic, but last year I listened to a group of people who spoke a presumably German dialect I never heard before, it sounded a lot similar to K�lsch (the dialect in Cologne). Finally I asked them where they were from: Maastricht! I was really surprised, it didn't sound like the normal Dutch at all. This shows what I learned in linguistics: originally, there was no clear language 'border' between lower German and Dutch dialects, but a continuum of step-by-step changes every few kilometers.

The Maastricht dialect is quite unique in that it uses a lot of german grammar, while mixing that up with Germen, French, dutch, some modern english words and some typical dialect.. And yes, i can understand how people mix it up wit k�lsch.. But then some germans also asked me if we orriginated fromSwitzerland..

Maastricht is probably the most musical town nord of The Alps, we talk like we are singing, every aria has its own text in local dialect, and its not a coincidence that Andre Rieu comes from Maastricht... His musical identity could lightly be seen as the soul and spirit of Maastricht

That's really fascinating (sorry again for continuing the offtopic). I found terrific websites with dialect samples. I found out that in Kerkrade people even sound much more like K�lsch than in Maastricht, listen to this one (click on 'afspelen'):
http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/ndb/soundbites.php?p=Q121p
This is the general website:
http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/ndb/gmaps.php?t=nl

Yes i know, my father allways said, there are 30 dialects between Maastricht and Aachen, and thats only 30 km. and they slowly transfer our lovely own dialect towards the german dialects.

Kerkrade offcourse is pretty close to Aachen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limburgish_language

Bachus, I was born like 16km from Maastricht, in Leut (Maasmechelen). I'm sure you've heard of it, at least Maasmechelen. Rode my bike countless times to Maastricht. By the way, is that music store still there on the Market Square, across from the Town Hall?

Our dialects are quite similar and yet different. In Maastricht they drag their words sound long while where I am originally from, we tend to cut them short.

Your dad's right. Every village or city has its own dialect. While they may sound similar, lots of words are completely different. In my old village, the word for "ant" was "zeikworm" and in the next village it was "amzeiksel".

Both of dialects are easily understood in Bavaria, Swiss, Austria...and even South Africa. In fact, our dialects are closer to Bavarian German than to Dutch.

It's a shame that many parents opt to speak Dutch to their kids now instead of the local dialect.

Het Limburgs Volkslied definitely sounds better in the local dialect than it does in Dutch. Of course, both of us will sing it with different accents and some words will be different as well. Limburgers are a breed apart.








The Dutch will sing Nederland, the Belgians sing Belgie and the Germans, Deutschland.

And let's not forget "In de Stille Kempen of de Purperen Hei" which was written by the Limburg (Peer) born Armand Preud'homme, another Limburger anthem in Dutch Limburg, Belgian Limburg and German Limburg. As you can see, Limburgers stick together. At gatherings in Limburg it's often "op sien plat gezongen".

By the way, what is really special in Limburger dialects, especially those from De Maaskant, is that often the
singular form of a word is written the same as the plural form but with more stress on the plural form. For instance, "bein (leg)" is singular when it's pronounced longer and plural with stress on "b" and the word is pronounced shorter, with the 'n" as a falling tone.

some more examples:

[st�ɪn˦˨˧] stei~n "stone"
[st�ɪn˦˨] stei\n "stones"

and lexical

[ɡraːf˦˨] "grave"
[ɡraːf˦˨˧] "hole next to a road"

Quite confusing for non-speakers of the dialect but it does make the language very unique, doesn't it?

Ich hub toch al zoe ein drei-en-dertig joare gein plat mier gekalt. Het geit toch nog waal, denk ich.

Nice post Taike

And offcourse i know Maasmechelen, i lived a few years in Opgrimbie, if that isnt close...

In my over 40 years of memories there never has been a musicstore on the market place, tough there was a piano salesman on the other big square, ut Vriethof...

For a good music store these days, i need to go to Heerlen, or even better, to Germany as that is what started this thread in the first place..

The best part of Maastricht these days is music, in dialect... We have three operette and one opera communities, and even our ver own popmusic culture in dialect.... maastricht breathes music withe every step we take...

But then in Limburg everything evolves mostly around de " Mestreechter Carnaval" just look at this video and see how people react to their own local singers, its all in dialect.

http://youtu.be/T2j16I9ykRw

I think you will love it, after being abroad for over 30 years.

Jazeker. In feite Omgrimbie is al jaren een deelgemeente van Maasmechelen. Het is ook internationaal bekend vanwege het Duivelsbergcircuit (Devils Hill Circuit), Rallycross.

Nu ben ik niet zeker of het het Markplein or her Vrijthof was. Wat ik me wel herinner is dat de winkel op een straathoek (welke straat weet it niet) was and Hohner orgels verkocht. Wel, it praat nu van de jaren zeventig. We hadden een grote muziekhandel waar ik woonde, namelijk Opsteyn die je zeker bekend moet zijn. Ze hebben ook een winkel in Genk.

Karnaval heeft me eigenlijk nooit ge�nteresseerd. Maar ja, je kon die liedjes wel niet uit je hoofd krijgen. Wat ik wel vind is dat Amerikanen niet zo een passie hebben voor plezier en gezelligheid waarvoor Limburg vast en zeker bekend is. Bekijk de videos maar eens van Andre Rieu (ik noem hem de James Last of the Lage Landen). Dat it een passie voor goede muziek en jong en oud doen er aan mee. Dat vind je niet zomaar overal.

Maastricht is een mooie stad. Nu heb je me denken aan de kaaswinkel. Haha! Man, wat ik niet zou geven voor een stukje goede kaas!

Als we ons dialect verliezen, dan verliezen we ook onze kultuur en geschiedenis. Wat veel mensen niet begrijpen is dat met een dialect ben je al meteen tweetalig. Eigenlijk meerderjarig omdat je vele andere dialecten verstaat, zelfs Duitse dialecten welke Duitsers die alleen maar Hochdeutsch (standaard Duits) niet verstaan.

Ik hoop dat ik niet te veel fouten gemaakt heb. Het is nu al over dertig jaren dat is geen Nederlands heb gesproken of geschreven. Ik denk, schrijf en droom alleen maar in het Engels en Chinees. Zelfs als ik van mijn family droom, spreken ze Engels. Raar maar waar! Haha!

Interessant onderwerp. Hartelijk bedankt!