I'm baffled and confused

[cozmik_cowboy]

I was just watching Brandi Carlisle on Austin City Limits, and noticed something I've been seeing a lot lately, on ACL, on Bluegrass Underground, on YouTube - everywhere I turn, it seems.


It would appear the thing to do these days is to take a piano or (oh, the humanity!!) a B-3, gut it, and use the cabinet as a stand for electronic keyboards.  And the folks doing this are all at a level where they have roadies!


WTF, over??  Do they really think that putting an electronic piano in a piano case is going to make it sound real??  Philistines, the lot of them!


Now you damn kids get off my lawn!

Peter

[edwardofhuncote]

Hmmm. Maybe it takes the experienced eyes of a roadie to catch it. I can't imagine what the advantage is, so I'll just guess it must be a stylistic thing where it takes one to know one.


I hadn't realized it was a widespread thing but I saw this in a Green Room a little while back and was puzzled by it. Actually it didn't even register in my head for a few minutes that what I was seeing was a fairly modern keyboard retrofitted into the frame of an older upright piano. The whole thing was on a caster-board so they could move it around easier I guess.


Search me...

[growlypants]

(Young WHIPPERsnappers...)

[gearhed289]

That's been going on for years. The first I remember was with Robert Plant back in 1988. I think most are custom made rather than actual gutted pianos/organs, but there are for sure some like that.

[gtrguy]

It's all about the imagined Mojo. Plus the B3 is one heavy sucker (ask me how I know).

[cozmik_cowboy]

It's all about the imagined Mojo. Plus the B3 is one heavy sucker (ask me how I know).

No lie! I was Stage Manager for a band that carried a B-3 & 2 Leslies, in flight cases.  The Hammond was about 300 lbs - sans protection.  Another band we carried a piano.  It was about 400.  One of the rooms we played regularly had a 6' stage; 2 others were on the second floor.

But they both sounded way better than the fake ones!


Peter (Who, yes, has had 2 back surgeries......)