At 3:09 PM -0400 6/23/05, Andrew Stiller wrote:
On Jun 23, 2005, at 6:47 AM, Ken Durling wrote:
An "Electric Piano" I think technically has to have reeds and
hammers, or even strings like those stubby little grands made by
Yamaha.
Well the terminology may have changed, but back in pre-Moog times
there were undoubted "electric pianos" that produced their sound by
purely electronic means. Significantly, these were considered
inferior to the electroacoustic kind.
Let's see. Bob Moog did his developmental work in the 1960s. The
Wurlitzer electric piano came out in the late 1950s, and my Air Force
combo lugged one all over Japan on tour. The Rhodes, I think, was
developed at about the same time as the original Moog. So no, I
can't recall any purely electronic "piano" pre-Moog. The technololgy
didn't exist. What Bob did was take the room full of vacuum tubes
that was the primitive RCA Mark II and shrink it down into portable
modules.
And BTW, does the subcontrabass saxophone even exist? As an actual instrument?
I think I've seen a picture of it, but there may well only be one (or
a handfull) in the entire world. The bass sax, on the other hand,
should be considered and used as a legitimate member of the sax
section. (I may be prejudiced because one of the members of our
community band owns and plays one!)
John
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