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Good advice, I’ve seen an 8 OHM Mark Bass 15 inch cab for sale but now I’m thinking a 2 x 12 might be a better option and I’m guessing that it connects straight into the spare jack socket? thanks in advance for any tips, regards Roger

Don't know the Kurzweil specifically, but it probably has a type of hammer and a sensitive pad underneath. I don't know the right terminology here. This pad then probably is knackered and needs a replacement. You could try opening it as well. As said, I don't know the specifics. Me, I'd open the piano and, if all of the pads are identical, I'd move the pad for a non-used key to the position in question. You might be able to get a new pad from the importer. I tried similar for my Roland, without success for half a year ... Best of luck whatever way you choose.

f*** it just bought one 😆

In one of the videos - I forget which one - the host demonstrates that the switch between strings would be all but impossible for a player with only the two hands

Marc sold me a very tidy used Flyte peli-a-like case, nice price, quickly shipped and received, all good, thank you

I really like that. It’s the sort of drive I like. More about harmonic content rather than straight filth.

There is that. I've recorded people in the studio and slowed the song down by 5bpm so they can do it. I did get clocked for it by one of the other band members once who politely asked "what the hell are you doing Andy?" I politely told him to "shut up" whispering very quietly saying I'd explain afterwards. It was the other guitarists band and he was really, really good. He just couldn't quite play his own solo at the tempo they'd chosen. He would have taken years to get it right in bits as it was at least 45 seconds long and intensely complicated. Sometimes preserving someone's ego in the moment is worth it. Miming live is fraud to me. There's something that's been lost by all this and that's spontaneity. None of these clowns can play on the hoof. Like listen to a live album and you hear things being slightly messed up. That's gone now. In one of my own bands, the guitarist becomes intensely irritated by the fact that I freestyle loads of bits of songs. The point was I improvised when I recorded them, so I play them differently every time I play them. Which I feel is being true to myself and what I did on record. People like this Giacomo glock can't do that as everything has to be perfect and they don't have the facility to adjust themselves to anything else. Hence the miming and ludicrous striving for "perfection." Oh, and he ripped folk off too. Classy.

Anything You Can Do - Doris Day

I see complaints about tablets for jazz gigs from time to time on forums, but the pros around these parts don't seem bothered by them, and glancing at them doesn't appear to affect their playing. For our next planned gig I'll need my iPad for one piece as it's hard to remember and not played often, but could play from memory for the rest. So much stuff that's unfamiliar, or boring (makes it hard to remember), gets called at jams that I couldn't get away without one. Plus, my jazz skills are never going to be up to transposing on the fly for singers for anything but the most basic of changes.

Me not no have thyme two cheque mye spelleng. Seems that you do though, so I'll leave it to you to continue to check for me!

Jack Of All Trades - Bruce Springsteen

Cliff & The Shads beat you to it!

We're just looking at a lovely eight string, a few Warmouths, some old Fenders. Enjoy the house work 😄

Not yet half way through the year, and definitely more out than in. Please check for any errors/ ommissions. Or not, as you please. 😉

Glad you got it in the end. Nice bass.

Brickie House - The Commodores