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[AlenK]

The XW-P1 comes in at about 8m30s. Assuming, of course, that this is real. There's a lot of fake stuff out there and you have to take a lot on faith. 

 

 

 

[sslyutov]

It is fun to watch it without sound

[AlenK]

You'll have to speak more plainly for us country-bumpkin types, 'cause I have no idea what you mean. If that was a joke I don't get it. 

[Jokeyman123]

Just got around to checking this out-pretty neat. A few things-what are these instruments he is playing-brand is pronounced shtaw-ki if my Russian is correct. Almost like Akai but with a sneeze in front.  Never saw this brand anywhere. The 88-key looks pretty interesting. And I have to brag-I met Eddie Offord in 1972, when Bearsville Sound Studios was being built in Woodstock, NY (now out of business sadly). He was recording my bandmate friend's band in one of the huge barns they were converting into large-scale recording spaces. What a great memory-and Robbie-was a dream come true-we covered the progressive bands back then in late 60s, and for Robbie to have Eddie engineer his album was a dream come true. He was ecstatic-and the equipment-up to the ceiling amps, he had one of the first (admittedly horrible) huge 10,000 dollar Memorymoogs hot off the Moog express. Robbie is still on my Facebook pages, recently got back in touch after many years and yes he still plays and has keyboards to kill for such as a Mellotron among other very collectible stuff. 

[2112]

8 hours ago, Jokeyman123 said:

if my Russian is correct.

Why would you use Russian? Tokai is a Japanese brand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tōkai_Gakki that split off of Kawai long time ago. They abandoned making pianos a while back. Apparently their Brazilian resale network was big enough to support re-badging some usual-suspects OEM keyboard brands (like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatar ) for the Portuguese-speaking portion of the Latin American market ( http://www.tokai.com.br/ ). I think correct Portuguese pronunciation would be the same as English. 

[Jokeyman123]

I was not making an inane comment. The first letter looks like the Russian letter that is pronounced SH, but looks like a W. that's why I asked the question-I was curious about who actually made these instruments. and although his voice isn't clear, he sounds like he is Russian, Polish, Czech or similar language. That, and I see some pretty unusual keyboards coming from Russia on Youtube and eBay. I hope that answers your question.

[2112]

4 hours ago, Jokeyman123 said:

he sounds like he is Russian, Polish, Czech or similar language.

You are excused 😉 . To me it was obviously Brazilian Portuguese.

Speaking of confusions: the first time I saw somebody playing Tokai grand piano I thought it was Hungarian. The only mental association I could make was with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokaj_wine_region and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokaji  🍷🍷.

[oildrops]

I see no reason to think it would be fake besides that it's incredibly impressive.

 

I was watching this and trying to figure out the best way to go about doing this on the XW-P1 alone. It seems like making a Hex layer with PCM tones that are as close as possible, and then using sliders in between parts would probably work, but there are other sections where splitting the board would be needed. I can't play most of these parts, so it's just a theoretical question as I'm just starting to really get into this keyboard. Would like to hear some thoughts.