I'm very proud to let you know about the re-launch of Gunnar Jonny's website with his kind permission. New pages are being retrieved daily and I hope to have the complete site available during October.

http://gj.technicskeyboards.com/

Huge thanks go to Gunnar for allowing his site to be re-built, this is a massive resource for Technics owners.

Thanks for letting us know. I have updated the link to his site here at http://www.synthzone.com/technics.htm

Thanks very much Nigel I really appreciate that. GJ has managed to locate many of his archived files today so hopefully I can make a major update shortly.

Hi Mike.

If everything worked OK, you should have recieved the files / contents of the site during the day.
It's been some years since last update, 2009 I think. (First upload of the KN pages was back in 1998).

Bob Hendershot's site is still up and running at my host (very limimited space for free). You'll also find it in the filestructure as well.
There are also other "guestwriters" and contributors as i.e. (well known Technics Guru) Alec Pagida who helped me a lot and wrote about KN files and what they do.
He also created some nice KN6000 files who was downloadable at my site.
George Basnett wrote a lot about soundedit, orchestration etc....

Please never forget to refer to the contributors and writers when use this material.

Good luck with your work, hopefully some of the stuff can be for help for the Technics KN users around the world.

Why have you deleted the original kn7000 section from my contribution to Gunnar's site without permission? Could it be you wanted to use the information there as the basis for your own page without acknowledging the source?

Hello Alec,

I'm very pleased to hear from you, I've been trying to contact you for quite a while, including sending a private message on this site to you. I've been checking in regularly hoping you will have read it.

There's certainly nothing intentionally omitted from your contribution to Gunnar's site. Your page was re-created from the following link on the wayback machine and it doesn't have any KN7000 information:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080727120541/http://home.c2i.net/gjgotaas

Recently, Gunnar sent me the original website files and the page is slightly newer with basically the same info and nothing about KN7000. I didn't want to add something to the page that wasn't there originally. However, I certainly agree that most of the filetype information on the TechnicsKN7000 site has come from various sources which I'm certain you wrote in the first place (which is one of the reasons I've been trying to get in touch). I haven't had time to complete all of Gunnar's pages fully yet so I'm not sure if you're referring to a different page.

I assure you that I've been trying to contact you in order to discuss acknowledgements amongst many other things and that there are many mentions of your considerable contributions to everyone's knowledge about the instruments on the sites, I sincerely hope that I haven't caused you any offence because that's the last thing I would want.

A huge amount of work has gone into the sites and they are a work in progress, I acknowledge that I'm working as fast as I can to be as complete as I can. In that process I've tried to prioritise getting useful information out to everyone quickly, with the intention of re-visiting all the pages in an iterative process to make them more useful and to make sure I haven't missed anything. Some few pages I've just put up quickly so that people have access to them.

Alec, I joined this site on 21st August and sent you a pm on 25th, it was and is very important to me to make contact with you and it was one of the main reasons for asking Nigel whether I could be a member. Many members would confirm this because I've been asking them whether they have your contact details. I hope that no offence has been caused and I look forward to hearing more from you.

Best wishes,
Mike

"Why have you deleted the original kn7000 section from my contribution to Gunnar's site without permission? Could it be you wanted to use the information there as the basis for your own page without acknowledging the source?"

Oh, dear, dear, dear! Thou has offended the ego of all egos by not giving credit where do.

Mike, you are a gentleman and said it well. Sir Alec needs to bother to read his email and respond like any kind and decent guy would. We have to realize that he is bigger than life. Of course, this is all in his head.

Scott Reed

Hi Scott,I must say I have to agree with your post,Mike is trying to do an invaluable job in trying to gather together information on Technics products and not only the beloved KN7000 but some of the older or lesser models,not everybody has the way with all to afford the top of the range even now when they are second hand.I have been working with Mike helping with this great project albeit in a small way,buy I must say my dealings with Mike have be very friendly and his attitude has been nothing but that of a gentleman giving credit where it is due to all,I know that when trawling around the web trying to find so called LOST sites it is often the thing that parts of the site I used some time ago are missing,Technics Canada is a prime example,links have been archived incomplete or not at all, even if you know the person or peoples involved contacting them can be very hard if NOT imposable!!!!! and if they don't read their messages how are we supposed to make contact perhaps by the powers of the All MIGHTY ONE!!!!!!

Regards to all and Nigel,this new site won't ever replace this forum but will add to,and help ALL of us enjoy our music more.
JOHN.

We are all just trying to help preserve Technics support online. If we don't no-one else will.

Hi Mike, Sorry, not read any mail here since been working abroad and had nothing to do with keyboards for many years now - just looked in. The original of 7k info is here:
http://www.willumspages.co.uk/page10.html - download no 12.

Alec,

Thanks, it's a very useful document and I often refer people to Willum's Pages for KN7000 information. Gunnar's site is about the other keyboards so I don't drive traffic for KN7000 to that website because visitors there aren't looking for it.

Nigel,

This website has thousands of pages of excellent Technics keyboards information and I often send people here to gain more knowledge, especially email correspondents. There is no better wide-ranging resource than Synthzone for all brands of arranger workstations. The existence of similar sites with complementary aims only goes to fuel people's enthusiasm and enjoyment as I know you understand.

Best wishes,
Mike

PS Nigel I'm now curious about what keyboard you have... and of course I'll stop being your friend if it's not a Technics, lol!

Mike I use a Yamaha Motif 6 keyboard in the classic rock band I play with http://aband.com but I also have an old Yamaha PSR-550 arranger.

Nigel,

Wow, your band sounds amazing! Motif is a brilliant keyboard I would love to have one of those for sure.

Best wishes,
Mike

Nigel, I have always had high regard for you and have mentioned on occasion, years ago, appreciation of your being the administrator of the Technics forum. I am quite surprised that you are a "rocker" and don't own a Technics keyboard. However, you are administrator on various other forums that support other keyboards. With music, I suppose it boils down to what we are inspired by when growing up. I grew up with Rock 'n Roll and never took to it. I was further along in music than playing three-chord harmony. My parent's music inspired me greatly and it is the music that I made lots of money playing and had a very successful career playing and singing thirties and forties music. Being featured nightly in New York for many years and playing Rock 'n Roll, I would have been fired and certainly wouldn't have held onto high paying jobs as I did. My average engagements were two years and more. My last engagement before moving back to California was three years, two months. I must have done something right with all the talent in New York City.

I think many on the forum would be interested in knowing how you, as administrator of the Technics forum, don't own or play a Technics keyboard. This is especially true with the no longer availability of Technics keyboards and especially, the high praise of the KN7000.

Regards,

Scott Reed

I only play in a live band so an arranger doesn't get a lot of use. Though I do use a Yamaha PSR-550 for working out band parts but mostly not in arranger mode. Synth Zone has always provided forums for all brands of keyboard for close on 20 years but that has never meant that I owned all the keyboards I have forums for.

I am thinking my next stage keyboard is most likely to be a Korg Kronos. I like all sorts of music from jazz to rock but I currently play in a rock cover band. Not all rock is 3-chord harmony. One of my favorite bands to hear live is Steely Dan, and their material is anything but 3-chord harmony. On the other hand 3-chord harmony works fine for the right song and arrangement. Sometimes 'simple' can be powerful and elegant in the right hands.

Scott, Nigel is not just the administrator, but the owner of the forums you are talking about..
He is providing a service for us...even if he is a Rocker...I don't care..

Remember folks music is the only true world language no matter what is your mother tongue,music is spoken by all musicians,the style we all of us use rock,pop,big band,whatever is only the expression of our way of using the language.

A little thought for you all!!!!
Nigel just keep on bashing them there keys in your own way and accept our thanks for this wonderful site.

Regards to all John.

Nigel, I meant no disrespect to your playing Rock music - it came as a surprise. You are right when it comes to certain songs written in three-chord harmony. "Cow, Cow, Boogie" comes to mind, along with many songs that singers like Dinah Washington and Billie Holiday sang and made hits with. As we know, this harmony is based on Blues. The Rock band that stands out in my mind as being one of the greatest is The Little River Band. All those guys were real musicians. Even though they had several hits in the seventies and early eighties, they received only a lukewarm reception in the United States. I never understood that. Perhaps they were too good for the "ears" that heard them.

Scott

Little River Band are from my home town Melbourne, Australia. So is AC/DC. In the early 80s I played in a band The Name http://girlscanswing.com that opened for INXS at many of their shows. After that I worked with Guy McDonough http://www.guymcdonough.com who sang and wrote for a successful band Australian Crawl who were produced by David Briggs from Little River Band.