Now Kids, THIS is what you become when you learn how to play keys.

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{censored} i wish i'd practised.

See, if Korg had released the Kronos sooner, they wouldn't have been shut out of this digital piano circle.

So...

Which has best piano sound

So... Which has best piano sound

Erhm, maybe the Yamaha second from the left-- CP300, I believe. The Kurz played better than I expected, but I thought the Roland sounded especially thin.

No, this is "not what you become when you learn to play keys."

These people, however, CAN play old fashioned boogie woogie rock and roll, and I'll bet they had tons of fun doing it.

I tended to like the Yamaha and Nord the most. I thought the Kurz sounded fake sampled like.

Isn't that the infamous triple strike grand?

Yep. Exactly this. That looked like lots of fun.

That's le ol' PC88.

Woah, that Yamaha sounded TERRIBLE. Out of that bunch, Kurzweil and Nord sounded the best to me. Roland is disgracingly thin, and its treble range is extremely unpiano-like. :/

very cool.

Where/what was this event?

Also, kudos to the guy that mixed this. You would think the lower end would be nothing but confusion with all of those people banging out bass lines at the same time.

This is an annual event on the Delbert McClinton Sandy Beaches Cruise known as "Pianorama." You've never heard a better 90 minutes of key-bangin in your life! I know I haven't.

Yep. Boogie woogie is fun and flashy, but really isn't that difficult to play, once one learns the blues pattern and the pentatonic scale.

High level Classical and Jazz piano, on the other hand....

Maybe because guys like this one weren't on the cruise playing boogie woogie?

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Peterson was amazing. A true giant. I think I'd give my left nut for his left hand abilities. Thanks for posting that.

Siccing Oscar on those poor folks is like bringing a gun to a knife fight.

Do you think at the end of Oscar's performance when he takes a bow, the only thing going through his head is:

"That's right, suck it bitches! Whose your daddy?"

What an amazing talent he was, a true natural.

Looks like it's a RD-700SX not the latest RD-700NX, with an improved 'SuperNatural' piano...

Ironically, Oscar's "piano sound" is the worst of the lot. Maybe he should have played a V Piano?

I never liked the overlapping sounds of piano instruments regardless of music style, and especially when it's more than 2 pianos.

That Nord should have been black. The setup with those personal monitors would have looked perfectly symmetrical [OCD]

That was fun, in more ways than one. And I was also, like, wow, chance to compare pianos side by side.

The first Nord piano solo was lacking in dynamics, but the second soloist brought it up. I think the Kurz sounded good both times. The Roland was bright and banging, the Yamaha plinky and lacking. Overall, though, it was more talent and attitude that brought out the best in this limited arena of piano banging... not exactly a subtle or wide range of emotion in boogie woogie.

Thanks for posting. A shame everyone was older. Performance talent on keys is fading fast...

That was pretty cool. I agree with Med, though, unless they're playing distinct parts, a plurality of pianos just kind mushes together. But it's a blast doing it, though. That clip made me go pound out some amateur boogie-woogie on my own piano! (Note to self: Call the tech next week, it's time for tuning again.)

Naaah. Honky-tonk, which had an important influence in the boogie-woogie music style, was deliberately created for out of tune pianos. Since the bass register of a piano stays in tune better than the mid and high ones even if you don't tune it regularly, that's why it emphasizes the LH parts and often uses minimal RH melody.

So if you want to practice serious boogie-woogie, the next tuning will have to wait.

Yeah, but I also like to try (emphasis on "try") to play classical, and out of tune piano doesn't really fit.

ugh .. that video.

Proving once again that "talent" isn't all what it's cracked up to be.