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Kris Nicholson's Casio Love


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This guy is one of the biggest Casio keyboard collectors out there, he made a whole series about the MZ-2000 including talking about the construction! 
 

 

This was really awesome, i happen to know Kris from way back, around the time his first YouTube video's got online (KN-2000 review, stuff like that) And the way he treast arrangers is really cool! He knows how to get them to the limit!

He also made a Michael Jackson style on the Casio WK-7600 and some wave-sequenceing kinda stuff! I don't have the timestamps, but this guy knows how to create styles!!! So just watch the complete video :D

 

This guy really knows how to get keyboards sound like the brands intended them to sound, you know what i mean? The way those styles sound are like there's a live band playing, who needs a $5000 Genos when an $400 Casio can sound almost as good in the right hands?!

 

(The only thing i dislike about his playing is the constant glissando's and scales he tends to do, but other than that he's really in a league of his own, not even joking, he's a beast!)

He recently stopped doing all the Casio stuff and now is a Williams sponsored (or so he says he is) Musician and seems to pick up onKorg more, but i was hoping that he'd get in touch with the PX-5s for some reason!

 

How many people on the forum know him/talk to him/are subscribed to his channel? 

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I often visit  Kris Nicholsons  youtube channel, because he is funny and a real piano player.

 

He has tons of videos and he played a lot of pianos and keyboards

 

Here some of my favorits

 

Christmas medley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjXxodvepOc

New York on Street with Casio WK 7600

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgTZoQRHsGo

Jam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2E8Hdx7Ibo

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Yes, i've watched some of his stuff and find it interesting. Actually, it was his video's that convinced me to buy a Casio WK-7600 over a second hand model of different brands. Also, i find this guy on his old CTK-7000 useful to watch. It's not my type of music typically, but i love the seamless way he creates loops 

 

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2 hours ago, Casiokid said:

Kris has videos about dampening key noise by means of adding felt which he claims he does with all his keyboards

I can imagine why he would do that... He says that he has a soft touch on the keyboard, but when i see him play the opposite shines through :D

 

 

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1 hour ago, roncist said:

 

1 hour ago, roncist said:

I often visit  Kris Nicholsons  youtube channel, because he is funny and a real piano player.

 

He has tons of videos and he played a lot of pianos and keyboards

 

Here some of my favorits

 

Christmas medley

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjXxodvepOc

 

New York on Street with Casio WK 7600

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgTZoQRHsGo

 

Jam

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2E8Hdx7Ibo

 

 

 

I don't like it when he plays with other musicians, he doesn't know how to leave space for other musicians it seems in my opinion, he's always super busy with those scales and glissando's, i enjoy him playing on his own, because like i said earlier he's a beast and a fantastic musician, just don't get him to play with others because he overplays a lot and wants to show off, which is too bad..

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Kris is a phenomenal pianist and keyboard player. His speciality is honky tonk, though with his abilities I am sure he can adapt to most styles.

 

At one point I appeared to have the largest Casio collection, then Kris surpassed mine by quite a bit. However, he seems to have moved away from Casios now, as Bradge Music said above, he's since been sponsored by Williams pianos and seems to endorse them instead.

 

Kris used to be on this forum but hasn't posted for some time. I'm also friends with him on Facebook, but for some reason I don't see him post on there as much these days.

 

Regardless, he's a lovely guy and I hope he's well. He also has a really cute rescue cat called Casio! One of these days I will get over to east Florida to see him play live too 🙂

 

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Yeah he had about 150 Casio keyboards at some point, pretty insane. And yes he can play almost anything you throw at him, pretty impressive. You don't get a better more rounded piano player than him in my opinion!

The cat is a beautiful creature and it's really sweet that he rescued him.

On a side note, i doubt that you're following him on Facebook or he might've deleted you from his contacts, but he posts a lot of stuff daily, ranging from 5-10 selfies when he's eating to completely over the top rants about a certain president, and he does livestreams almost daily, then he's behind a beautiful piano, and then he's playing on an old Yamaha, but he's there every day.

 

He also auditioned for AGT!

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Just checked, and yes, I'm still friends with Kris on Facebook. Went to his page and can see all his posts. It's likely the stupid FB algorithm that keeps changing whose posts show on my timeline. Many of my other FB friends I never see their posts, unless I visit their page. Stupid Facebook...

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