On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:50:57 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
 wrote:

>In article ,
>   Stephen Howard  wrote:
>> >Of course. The difficulty of transporting a real piano has been
>> >mentioned - and then there's the small matter of getting an output from
>> >it to feed to the PA. In other words, exactly the reason the 'electric
>> >piano' was invented.
>
>> For sure, but I was referring to the sort of gigs where there's
>> somewhere to land your helicopter behind the stage and every bit of
>> kit's on a rolling palett ;)
>
>And fix it and tune it, of course. Which can be very difficult to do at
>many gigs - even where money is no object.

Not really, I've been on quite modest gigs where a grand has been used
- the last one being with Kit and the Widow in a marquee in someone's
back garden.

Regards,



-- 
Stephen Howard - Woodwind repairs & period restorations
www.shwoodwind.co.uk
Emails to: showard{whoisat}shwoodwind{dot}co{dot}uk

In article ,
   Stephen Howard  wrote:
> >And fix it and tune it, of course. Which can be very difficult to do at
> >many gigs - even where money is no object.

> Not really, I've been on quite modest gigs where a grand has been used
> - the last one being with Kit and the Widow in a marquee in someone's
> back garden.

Last time I saw them they worked unaccompanied. So the pitch of the piano
wouldn't be critical. On other gigs it might well be.

But I couldn't imagine them or Hinge and Bracket (sadly missed) working to
an electric piano. Or Elton John. A proper piano is part of the experience.

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"Dave Plowman (News)"  wrote in message 
news:4fd500fc64dave@davenoise.co.uk...
> In article ,
>   Stephen Howard  wrote:
>> >And fix it and tune it, of course. Which can be very difficult to do at
>> >many gigs - even where money is no object.
>
>> Not really, I've been on quite modest gigs where a grand has been used
>> - the last one being with Kit and the Widow in a marquee in someone's
>> back garden.
>
> Last time I saw them they worked unaccompanied. So the pitch of the piano
> wouldn't be critical. On other gigs it might well be.
>
> But I couldn't imagine them or Hinge and Bracket (sadly missed)

Oh yes <sob>

Mary

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
> But I couldn't imagine ...  Hinge and Bracket (sadly missed) working to
> an electric piano. 

Well, no. I don't suppose they'd know how to switch it on, or Maud (the 
late Daphne Heard) would have used the instructions to light the boiler. 
  But maybe they would have preferred a tuned electric piano to the 
average village hall instrument, which I don't imagine met with their 
approval very frequently.

Owain

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:24:40 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
 wrote:

>In article ,
>   Stephen Howard  wrote:
>> >And fix it and tune it, of course. Which can be very difficult to do at
>> >many gigs - even where money is no object.
>
>> Not really, I've been on quite modest gigs where a grand has been used
>> - the last one being with Kit and the Widow in a marquee in someone's
>> back garden.
>
>Last time I saw them they worked unaccompanied. So the pitch of the piano
>wouldn't be critical. On other gigs it might well be.

Not much point using an out-of-tune piano  ( aka a Paino ), they'd be
better off without it - and the paper bag over the head gag would fall
a bit flat without a Joanna.

>
>But I couldn't imagine them or Hinge and Bracket (sadly missed) working to
>an electric piano. Or Elton John. A proper piano is part of the experience.

I can, mainly because I've stood barely 12 feet away from Elton while
he played a digital piano at one of my gigs.
Don't recall what make it was - but to be honest I wasn't really
paying much attention to the gear.
I know he's not averse to playing a Fender Rhodes either.

Regards,



-- 
Stephen Howard - Woodwind repairs & period restorations
http://www.shwoodwind.co.uk
Emails to: showard{who is at}shwoodwind{dot}co{dot}uk

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:45:30 +0100, Owain
 wrote:

>Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
>> But I couldn't imagine ...  Hinge and Bracket (sadly missed) working to
>> an electric piano. 
>
>Well, no. I don't suppose they'd know how to switch it on, or Maud (the 
>late Daphne Heard) would have used the instructions to light the boiler. 
>  But maybe they would have preferred a tuned electric piano to the 
>average village hall instrument, which I don't imagine met with their 
>approval very frequently.
>
Would have made an excellent episode for their radio show though!

Regards,



-- 
Stephen Howard - Woodwind repairs & period restorations
http://www.shwoodwind.co.uk
Emails to: showard{who is at}shwoodwind{dot}co{dot}uk

Stephen Howard wrote:
>>  ... maybe they would have preferred a tuned electric piano to the 
>> average village hall instrument, which I don't imagine met with their 
>> approval very frequently.
> Would have made an excellent episode for their radio show though!

I can imagine the hall being used by a youth group the night before and 
the keyboard being left on Calypso Rock or some such setting. Dr Evadne 
would be transposing fit to burst a girdle.

Owain

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:15:06 +0100, Owain
 wrote:

>Stephen Howard wrote:
>>>  ... maybe they would have preferred a tuned electric piano to the 
>>> average village hall instrument, which I don't imagine met with their 
>>> approval very frequently.
>> Would have made an excellent episode for their radio show though!
>
>I can imagine the hall being used by a youth group the night before and 
>the keyboard being left on Calypso Rock or some such setting. Dr Evadne 
>would be transposing fit to burst a girdle.
>

Hilda: Heavens Evadne, what on EARTH is that dreadful sound m'dear?

Evadne: It says here...."Hammond"

Hilda: Eh m'dear, wassat? Gammon? Gammon?? I always said you were
ham-fisted m'dear.

Evandne: Yes, very droll, thank you. No, not gammon, Hammond - I
believe it's some kind of organ.

Hilda: <aside> Spleen, I'll be bound.

Evadne: I hope I didn't hear what I thought I just I heard!

Hilda: If you can't make it sound any different that's precisely what
the audience will be saying. Try pressing a few buttons.

Evadne: Well, if you insist <presses buttons, keyboard plays sampled
dog noises>

Together: Ahh, Bach!

Regards,



-- 
Stephen Howard - Woodwind repairs & period restorations
http://www.shwoodwind.co.uk
Emails to: showard{who is at}shwoodwind{dot}co{dot}uk