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Happy Birthday Billy Preston

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Would have been 79 today.
Some good funk on his keyboard.

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QMS's picture

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saw mention of it but not familiar
with that particular instrument.
cheers

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@QMS

It is a portable keyboard that is sort-of related to the harpsichord, sonically- it uses a string for sound generation, unlike the tuning forks/tines in a Fender Rhodes electric piano, but it actuates the string by hitting it with a hard plastic actuator, rather than hitting it with a soft felt hammer like a piano. As as result, it is a much brighter and very percussive sound, rich in overtones (especially when played hard), and was perfect for funk. Think of the naked keyboard intro to Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" for a well-known example...

Figures that it would be made by a harmonica company. (;-)

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@usefewersyllables
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figured someone here would
understand the lingo.
need some Wonder anyways!

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likesomebody will post this at some point, so I guess it'll be me

be well and have good one

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thanks for whatever you did Johnny, let's hope it sticks.

be well and have a good one

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the site's problems. See the message I just posted over in yesterday's OT.

be well and have a good one

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