I am ready for something like this instrument...

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Are you ready to spend $3390 for the half size unit?

LOL {censored} yeah man I would KILL for the 88 "key" version, unfortunately I don't think I'll ever be able to afford one ...

I bought synths which did cost cost more and I don't feel like using them anymore,

and then all those sound libraries call for controllers which are more approriate for playing this or that instrument, recently after my Cat percussion controller gave back the spoon to the synth lord, I bought an Alesis controller pad, a Haken would be possibly more for playing woodwinds and stringed instruments

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$789

Chinese Guqin App, at the moment the 2nd most sold iPhone app in China, $3.95

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I have a continuum keyboard.... it's called my pedal steel guitar.

It can do all that slidey noise stuff... which on that youtube vid... actually sounds a lot like the little bits of guitar/bass slides you hear in the middle section of Magic Carpet Ride.

I thought that thing was also making the sitar noises.. but those are from something else in the track.

What's that second video? An iPad mounted in the middle of a carved wooden guitar frame? Certainly a stellar idea in theory.

Dunno about that Chinese Gruesome app. Suppose you can't miss for three dollars if you're already in ipadLand.

I am sure China is already working on stealing this idea, cause, they rock so hard.

that musical instrument has a history back to when white Americans where still eating bananas in the trees of England

Oh, I know....China does rock.....just not the way you portray it. India has them beat by a {censored}load of years thought BTW.

i guess you talk about the people who make the accounting software for Swiss banks

Apple, Nike, Samsung, Dell, Philips, Asus... a to make it short, 99% of all electronics we buy are manufactured in China, as well your trousers and socks, and not only that all this products are the IP of China, anything else the Chinese would not accept, all foreign entity and design can not own more then 46% in China, as well that you poor suckers can even afford a flat panel tv, the Chinese tax payer supports all those industries with hundreds of billions

and now dream on about India and the USA

oh, and I forgot to add, Germany and Switzerland are the only two countries which have a surplus in trade with China, and not a deficit, because we produce hi-tech nobody can manufacture yet in Asia

and in China people get executed a few days after trial, no waiting for decades

anything else you wanna know about Asia?

No, I think you know everything, and you appear to have shared it all with me. Thank you! I feel enlightened! Well...one question...are we talking about the country, or the dinnerware?

Those "sitar noises" were probably made by a tambura. Far less noisy than an electric guitar, btw.

That's beautiful. The instrument looks intriguing, but that player? Wow, very nice playing.

Indeed, A.R. Rahman is a really great musician. The "Mozart of Madras." Probably India's biggest music star, top composer for film scores for the past twenty years. Also did the songs for "Slumdog Millionaire," and appeared in performance on the Grammy's.

I've talked with him a couple of times in the course of my work in India, he's very kind and humble, as you can see in this video where he's trying out a "harpejji" (he's known for trying all sorts of new things in the studio and in his music):

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More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_R_Rahman

A.R. Rahman absolutely rules as a musician and composer.

I played a continuum keyboard at NAMM and thought it was extremely fun.

I play slide guitar and have a lap steel....the latter is really difficult for me.

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