by Hugh-AR » 16 May 2018 08:59
John,
All I can say is that this is very reminiscent of our Weston-super-Mare Organ and Keyboard Club in it's early days. We used to meet in a Church Hall, and people would bring their Keyboards. I had a Casio Keyboard (no Rhythm unit) and a Yamaha Keyboard (with a Rhythm unit), which was polyphonic, but when you 'split' the keyboard the left of the split was still polyphonic (it had to be, to play chords!), but the right of the split was only monophonic. And the 'Memory Cards' to store your set-ups on were about £30 each!
Now, of course, none of us play at our meetings and we have a professional organist come and play to us every month. It looks as though this will carry on for at least another year or so as the Artistes have already been booked and paid for. But our Membership is getting fewer and fewer (none of us are getting any younger!) and the younger generation don't seem interested in organs or keyboards. I remember the days when we had Yamaha and Technics Music Schools for youngsters, and they used to hire our Playhouse Theatre once a year and give a concert to show off their skills at playing keyboards. Days long gone. They all play 'Mobile Phones' now.
But there is nothing like a group of keyboard players getting together and passing on to others things they have found out about playing their keyboards, and there's nothing like watching somebody else play to get ideas of things one can do. I see that JonD is in your club. I hope you have all noted how Jon uses the 'expression pedal' to 'lift' his music. A sort of 'kick back' on the 'on-beat'.
So just enjoy the camaraderie of your club, and long may it continue!
Hugh
It's all about the music ♫ ♪ ♫ Organ: Yamaha AR80 & Keyboard: Tyros 4
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