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Weighted Piano

If you’re like me and you remember your first piano lessons at the age of 10. Maybe you’ve just started college or have recently graduated. You have your first apartment away from home, but you miss the music. Your life in the next few years is going to be hectic. Your living quarters are going to be small.

Maybe you’ve tried one of your friend electric keyboards or synthesizers. It sounded “ok” but not great. The grand piano setting sounds more like a video game than a Steinway. The ragtime piano setting sounds like a cell phone ring! But what’s really missing is the weighted keyboard. Piano keys that push back with a little bit of resistence.

In a real piano, this weight gives you feedback about your music and helps you shape the tone. It’s a tactile experience that no portable keyboard can give you. Or can it?

Weighted keyboards

Have you heard of weighted keyboards? Digital pianos with weighted key have been around for a few years now. They give you the best of both worlds, the ease of owning a portable digital piano, with the feedback and joy of having the keys talk back to your fingers!

M-Audio Keystation 61es Semi-Weighted USB MIDI Keyboard
US $169.00
End Date: Saturday Aug-28-2010 9:19:20 PDT
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Yamaha DGX-530 Keyboard Weighted Full Size 88 key Piano
US $594.95
End Date: Wednesday Aug-04-2010 20:57:45 PDT
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Yamaha DGX-530 Keyboard Weighted Full Size 88 key Piano
US $674.95
End Date: Tuesday Aug-03-2010 13:40:36 PDT
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Fatar piano keys for weighted Fatar based keyboards!
US $10.00
End Date: Wednesday Aug-25-2010 20:10:32 PDT
Buy It Now for only: US $10.00
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Kurzweil Fatar 76 key keyboard action fully weighted
US $100.00
End Date: Wednesday Aug-25-2010 19:54:02 PDT
Buy It Now for only: US $100.00
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Kurzweil SP88 88 Key Semi-weighted keyboard
US $350.00 (0 Bid)
End Date: Monday Aug-02-2010 15:56:54 PDT
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KORG TRITON STUDIO Keyboard piano with 88 weighted keys
US $900.00 (0 Bid)
End Date: Saturday Jul-31-2010 14:17:04 PDT
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Ensoniq KS32 Keyboard with 76 Weighted Keys
US $250.00 (0 Bid)
End Date: Thursday Aug-05-2010 7:23:54 PDT
Buy It Now for only: US $350.00
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M-Audio AXIOM 25 Keyboard 25-Key Semi-Weighted USB MIDI
US $54.00 (5 Bids)
End Date: Friday Jul-30-2010 6:52:05 PDT
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Yamaha DGX-530 Keyboard 88 Full-Sized Lightly Weighted
US $474.95
End Date: Monday Aug-23-2010 18:43:39 PDT
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Axiom 49 MIDI semi-weighted controller keyboard
US $189.99 (0 Bid)
End Date: Monday Aug-02-2010 11:29:12 PDT
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Kurzweil PC88 Weighted Key Keyboard With Case
US $305.00 (2 Bids)
End Date: Sunday Aug-01-2010 18:15:00 PDT
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Replacement Novation Semi-Weighted keyboard Key
US $15.62
End Date: Saturday Aug-21-2010 17:06:26 PDT
Buy It Now for only: US $15.62
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Replacement Novation Semi-Weighted keyboard Key
US $15.62
End Date: Saturday Aug-21-2010 17:05:57 PDT
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YAMAHA DGX-530 88 KEY LIGHTLY WEIGHTED KEYBOARD W WARNT
US $519.99
End Date: Wednesday Aug-18-2010 11:04:58 PDT
Buy It Now for only: US $519.99
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Teh vs The

I would like to start a petition to the greater English-speaking community to change the spelling of the word “the” to “teh”. So who’s with me? I have no (good) reason for this other than I like the way it looks. The pronunciation would remain the same. Why cause more trouble? English has been called a “living language”, meaning that it changes with time by use and mis-use. Unlike say, French, which seems to be more rigid (rigider?). Although French does change, albeit at a much slower rate. They refuse to admit that is does.

So where was/were I/we? Oh yea, The Teh.

Nevermind. The more I think about it, the more stupid it seems. Forget I mentioned it. Bloggity blogg.

Flock vs. Firefox

Flock BrowserI’ve just downloaded Flock to take part in the 30-day challenge. I’ve tried it once in the past and wasn’t terribly impressed by it. The reason being is that Flock is designed around the principles of the “social web”. You know, Web 2.0, social bookmarking, FRIENDS! All that sort of thing. Well, I work from home on my computer. I have no friends! And I don’t really think that if I threw a party, any of those 100 or so hotties that call themselves my friend on myspace would actually show up. Yes, I know that they’re all lonely housewives with stripper good looks and THEY approached ME. But I digress…

Oh yea, did I mention that I’m writing this directly from the browser? No big deal, except that I’m using part of the Flock interface and I’m not even online at the moment. Pretty cool, but not life-changing. Although, once I’ve set up all my blog accounts, I can write all my posts while I’m on the train, then upload them as soon as I get a signal. No more going to each site, finding my hidden wp-admin directories, remembering the password, clicking through the admin. This actually saves valuable seconds. And in the course of a year it could save me minutes…even hours! Hours that could be spent cleaning up all the dead animals that the cats are now bringing in. (I just found the head that belonged to the rabbit that was “delivered” two days ago)

Back to Flock. One thing that scared me a bit when installing Flock was that I wasn’t asked anything about my Firefox extensions. No extensions, no Flock. It’s as simple as that. But luckily, since the two browsers are built from the same engine, it supports most of them. And in my case, all of them. Where would I be without the Web Developer extension. Out of a job, that’s where!

Anyhow, I hope to bring more valuable insight to this “Firefox killer” in the future.

Blogged with the Flock Browser

My First Post

Hello world and welcome to teh internets. Big wet noodle and friends would like to thank you for stopping by and browsing our wares. Future installments of our little programme hope to entertain, amuse, delight and make you hungry. One day, some day, it’s all gonna happen. If you miss out, we ain’t turning this ship around. So onwards and upwards gang, let’s make some smoke.

Yeeeehhaaaaaaaaa!