30.09.11

First off, congrats to Dean N. of Parsippany, N.J., who won a LifeProof iPhone 4 instance in last week's Crave giveaway. And now...

While grand pianos have a, well, grandly dignified quality, not everyone has the grand budget--or the grand space--to quarter one. That's why we're humming a happy tune about this week's freebie, the Korg MicroPiano , a compressed, portable digital piano with grand-piano panache (complete with onset lid).

This little piano that could measures 30.79 inches long by 11.46 inches deviating by 5.47 inches deep and weighs just 11.5 pounds, but you can create all manner of musical genius via its 61-key minikeyboard, 60 built-in sounds, and 25 one-enhance musical phrases. For roving pianists, it has built-in speakers and facultative battery power, but given that it produces "robust and trustworthy stereo-sampled grand piano sound," according to Korg, you might necessitate to keep it out of the library.

Korg has been around since the '60s and is considered a well-respected musical mark. Normally, its MiniPiano would cost you $499.99, but you have the chance to provocation it for a cool zero. So, how do you try to win this week's prize to become the hippest pianist in the 'hood? Let us tally the basic rules. Please read carefully; there will be a test--in the key of A Unimportant.

Source: CNET (blog)

05.10.11

Three-every so often Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter Bruce Hornsby will knock off a rare solo concert for the benefit of Fit Kids of Arizona and the Northern Arizona Tennis League today at 7:30 p.m. at NAU's Ardrey Memorial Auditorium. The concert will hype Hornsby performing songs from his extensive body of industry on a Steinway "D" grand piano and a Korg M1 synthesizer.

Hornsby has recorded 13 albums and sold over 11 million records to meeting. He is recognized as one of America's premier singer/songwriters known for his inimitable piano playing style and his ability to integrate music from miscellaneous genres into his own style that blends rock, jazz and bluegrass.

Proceeds from the concert will promote Northern Arizona Healthcare's Fit Kids initiative which is fetching aim at childhood obesity. They will affiliate with the Northern Arizona Tennis Link to introduce the sport of tennis to 10 and under children in Flagstaff and circumambient areas.

Tickets are $25-$75 and available through the NAU central ticketing room at 523-5661.

Source: Arizona Daily Sun

The SP-170 features a duo of concert fabulous piano sounds, each recorded with strict worry. Numerous velocity layers are worn to grab nuances of playing dynamics, allowing the prime mover to touched by expressively to every set alight. Eight additional praisefully-on target sounds accomplish the palette of keyboard tones: Thrilling Piano (x2), Harpsichord, Clav, Vibraphone, Horn Newsletter, Tense (Drawbar) Process and Strings. Selectable Reverb and Chorus effects add heartiness and spaciousness to the utter. While the SP-170 never requires tuning, it offers adjustable tuning that can be matched to other instruments, and it can also be transposed into any tuneful key. As with every Korg SP digital piano likeness, the SP-170 features a full 88-note piano-sort keyboard; three match curves fellow the key reply to any playing splendour. The newly-developed, Easy Weighted Hammer Enterprise (NH) faithfully reproduces the be on an equal footing with and graduated worth of acoustic piano keys, while keeping the item’s impact down to a pure and simple 26 pounds.

Source: NAMM 2010: Korg Sp170 Digital Piano| Dolphin Music

by Matt Tinsley

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