Musician Gear & Tech Discussion

My first guitar was an Aria acoustic - $40 brand new!

I got my acoustic piano off of cl for free.
Everybody is giving them away, I looked
at about 5 or 6, before I told the person
I would haul it off for them for free.

I lowball people on cl regularly, many don't
like it, but you catch a few. The way I see it,
all I got is money, there wanting to sell, and I'm
only wanting to buy if it's dirt cheap. I always
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take it to Guitar Center they'll buy it, then they really
get lowballed.

I keep waiting for someone to post the best score they got was a blow job or an STD!

My STD story would probably be better
on the hitch-hiking thread. Me and a friend
picked up this crazy chick who was thumbing,
we partied allday with her, we'd take her out to
fields where the farmers were out working on there
tractors and have her jump out naked and start
dancing, everyone of those farmers appreciated
that. We drank and partied with her till about 2am,
then dumped her out at the truckstop, she'd gave
us both the clap, and probably one farmer whose not
to happy with her either. That was back in the good
ole days when driving while drinking was my
favorite hobby.

Used pianos are always being given away on CL. Unless you've got the truck and muscle to move one (and the ability to tune it helps), they are seldom worth the bother.
My mom asked me if I wanted my father's old piano, which cost him a few thou new 35 years ago, but I said no thanks - to have it moved 120 miles, then retuned is just not worth it for me. Easier to use electric keys (with headphones on so as not to disturb the family).

EWverybody here's got a pickup, me and my boy
handled loading it.

Weighted keys is one big difference. You play a electric piano,
without weighted keys, and every note is gonna sound the
same. With weighted keys you can control the amount of pressure
being put on the keys for many different sounds, similar to like
how hard you strike your guitar strings. If your gonna play piano,
you should practice with weighted keys, then when you go to like
your synthesizer you can fly, cause they require such a lite touch.

I love my acoustic piano, and plan to put a grand piano in my front
room one day, they look classy to me and the action is better on
the grands. My little brother just bought a new Kawai grand it's
beautiful.

Lynard my daughter has a Roland Fantum G8 and it has weighted keys.

I have an old upright in my music room, but I hardly ever play keys these days.

Most new electric keyboards are touch sensitive, or velocity sensitive, so you CAN get different volumes when playing, like a real piano.

I don't think you can get that feel,
it's like going from acoustic guitar,
to electric guitar. It takes some hand
strength to pound those weighted keys.
That's my opinion anyhow, it has to have
weighted keys to be a piano to me, otherwise
it's a electric keyboard, and I love my electric
keyboard also, just another instrument.

I remeber when you said you bought it for her,
those Rolands are nice, used worldwide.

I love the piano and try to give myself a 1 hour
piano lesson everyday. I'd have never been able
to read sheet music, without the piano. The piano
is the only insrument I play ut with right now (and a
drum machine), but I record with a leaning more
toward electric guitar.

^ Nice!

I scored a Silvertone 1482 about a month ago for $195.

Nice sound with the Les Paul, I see alot of old funky tube amps on CL, PLUSH, Kustom,Silvertone,Kalamazoo...etc...that probably get ignored until people hear stories like yours.

They are pretty damn nice with a Strat too when you jumper the channels and boost them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYIqtnMru1g

I love that lead tone. They are so dynamic. Every note you hold swells into sweet musical feedback. Danelectro sprinkled magic dust in these Silvertones.