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karmathanever · Platinum Member Joined: 12 Jan 2004 Posts: 10402

http://www.korgpa.com/pa_root/en/news/news.html?en#Germany
http://www.korg.de/nc/news/news-uebersicht/datum////mp3s-fuer-pa800pa2xpro.html?tx_ttnews[backPid]=556&cHash=192e111195

Never even had a small roadshow here!!!!

Pete Crying or Very sad

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dwpayne · Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 11:47 pm Post subject:

We do seem to be left out a bitover this side of the water Rolling Eyes

BasariStudios · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 3:46 am Post subject:

They should make a mistake instead of Austria to end up in Australia...
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mrniceneasy · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 8:22 pm Post subject:

Even our side of the water Sad

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mrniceneasy · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 8:43 pm Post subject:

Peter Paul · Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 9:14 pm Post subject:

Germany is huge, huge market for fake music instruments. It pays to do roadshow there. Up here, in the states, they frown at you when you play arranger kb. It is not considered very arty to play this instrument here. There are a lot and I say it again, a lot of very good musicians around here. If you play arranger and don't know how to play piano or something well, they don't take you seriously. And as you know very well, musicians are very serious about their business. Something tells me that us is not good selling ground for akb so why to bother going there, doing costly roadshow.
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karmathanever · Platinum Member Joined: 12 Jan 2004 Posts: 10402

Interesting post....

alland · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 7:43 am Post subject:

This down looking attitude towards arrangers is however known in Europe too, at least in here where I live. I know many people who use arrangers with downloaded karaoke-midi files and perform on cheap parties and rural clubs. These just cannot afford get any live music band.

In these cases there are really some who know only select-start-stop buttons and only pretend on stage that they play. And of course it is true - quality of such music is poor.

This does not mean that arrangers are poor quality instruments in itself. As said all major kbd manufacturers worked hard to make serious and good instruments, Pa2 being one of the best. And this doe not mean that all arranger owners and players are poor musicians and have arranger just because they cannot articulate any live music.

But sure about German market - they seem to like instruments of this type. Just see how many German-type styles are built in many arrangers . BTW I am pretty OK with these German styles since our country has had a lot of German influence in history Smile

Another big market for arrangers seems to be middle east. We have seen Turkish versions of arrangers (anybody seen Chinese or Brazilian or Irish versions ? Smile

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Update: since 11.11.2009 there are some more "Local" versions of Pa500
http://www.korgpa.com/pa_root/en/products/pa500loc_info.html?en

Cheers and continue to love my Pa2 that seems to be best companion to my M3 (so I can also impress serious musicians Smile

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BasariStudios · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 10:04 am Post subject: