How many coders, devs, programmmers, IT peeps, technical design folks are also musicians and/or seriously in pursuit of music lifelong? Curious to know as for more than 30 years in tech I see a lot of crossover.
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I played in a symphony orchestra at age 14... and was a music editor on several feature films... But less lately, too busy with vision projects—My "birthday present" to myself in 2019 was an 88 key weighted-action Yamaha piano/controller.. and I have yet to open the road case!
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I've been looking into 88 key simple boards don't need many voices but a strong piano sound. Effects are less important than sound quality. Always interested in recommendations. Do you play it or does it stay in its case? I have two guitars cased one at the ready the rest stored.
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I have this one kawai-global.com/product/es1… Really nice sound, has a proper deep-travel pedal, MIDI, some other features I don't use.
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And good value, I think I paid £400 ish for it.
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Replying to @siblingpastry @MyndexResearch
It has a nice look. I don't know my British pound to USD conversion at the moment and lazy web is kicking in but fall into a reasonable price range I'm looking for something a little less expensive because it's a stepping stone to an actual piano and a higher-end keyboard.

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Replying to @mholzschlag @siblingpastry
Kawai is nice too, the price point new is attractive in comparison (I usually buy used, so I go for the "road tested")...
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Actually used is a good idea I'm pretty sure that would be an affordable entry and anyting not too fancy would be quite affordable at that range I just want an 88-key. I'm pretty convinced I'd like the weighted keys. I have to really go and try various keyboards to get a feel.
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Replying to @mholzschlag @MyndexResearch
Don't forget the economies of scale conversion. £400 is $525, but something that costs £400 here would be more like $400 or less in the US.
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That's interesting because in the years I travel to the UK and visited you as well the GBP was nearly twice the scale of USD. Is that due to brexit or other factors in play?