The Yamaha AN1x Synthesizer mailing list

From: "Ed Edwards" <edward.edwards@...>

> (Sheesh - ya go to the ocean for one day and a miss a completly good rant
> thread....)

Just for one day? Then you didn't even have time to get jet lag. :)

> > I've heard complaints on the list about the AN1x keyboard many times.
> Specifically, what don't you like about it?
>
> I read through all the responses before I poked back in.  I think it's the
> "touch" I'm referring to.  I just did an experiment before responding here
so I
> could be clear about what I mean.  I went to our new Young Chang piano and
did a
> trill, then tried it on my KT-76 (Ensoniq - weighted Fatar action), my
01/W
> (leaf spring action), then the AN1x.  It's not the width of my fingers so
much
> as the thrust of them that I've got a problem with - basically I've got a
heavy
> touch.  I'm not a trained pianist, and I play a bunch of different
instruments,
> so I think I lack the precision on a light touch keyboard to enjoy one.
The
> 01/W has a unique action that has a "break point" during the downstroke
that
> feels more like a B3.

Without wanting to flog a dead horse, I try to look at the price of the unit
in relation to the quality of the keyboard. The AN1x doesn't have the best
keyboard around, but for its price class, it's quite good.

(My apologies, by the way, to the PLG-150AN and AN200 users, who probably
feel a tad left out.)

One of the most wonderful keyboards I ever played on, was a Yamaha C3 grand
piano. As grand pianos go, it doesn't measure up to the top class, like
Steinway (http://www.steinway.com) or Boesendorfer
(http://www.boesendorfer.com/), but it costs more than I paid for my car.
(And it's actually quite a nice and spacious car, not one of those Korean
supermarket trolleys with a roof and a lawn mower engine.)

I wonder what that 97 key, 570 kilo Boesendorfer would cost.

- Peter