On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:50:57 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
Stephen Howard wrote:
Of course. The difficulty of transporting a real piano has been
mentioned - and then there's the small matter of getting an output from
it to feed to the PA. In other words, exactly the reason the 'electric
piano' was invented.

For sure, but I was referring to the sort of gigs where there's
somewhere to land your helicopter behind the stage and every bit of
kit's on a rolling palett

And fix it and tune it, of course. Which can be very difficult to do at
many gigs - even where money is no object.

Not really, I've been on quite modest gigs where a grand has been used
- the last one being with Kit and the Widow in a marquee in someone's
back garden.

Regards,



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