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Yes, he is and is not.

This book is excellent, but out of print since a few years: That said this Fodera YouTube set-up videos are really all you need:

This is indeed absolutely not a MIDI pedal at all as the typical MIDI connector is a 5 pins DIN type (there are a few others too like XLR, TRS, USB, 13 pins DIN, mini MIDI, ethernet MIDI, ... but no 6 pins type). It's the pedalboard designed for the GEM WS2 with a 6 pins connector sending serial data to the main keyboard. Here is the female connector on the GEM WS2: That said, those pedalboards are quite rare and putting it back for sale with the right description will certainly put over £21 in your pocket, so you eventually made a good deal. Here's the service manual for the GEM WS2: https://www.deepsonic.ch/deep/docs_manuals/gem_ws2_keyboard_workstation_service_manual.pdf And here all you need to know about this MIDI protocol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI

Yes, yes, yes and no.

It indeed does. 😉 Here's a tune I recorded with it a few years ago in one take: https://tonybertrand.bandcamp.com/track/i-wish-i-was-swiss

@Cato and @chris_b if you listen to the aforementioned Charles Berthoud cover with anything else than your phone, you'll hear a nice and power B string with a super well balanced overall tone, nothing harsh as the stainless steel fingerboard is very close to a Brazilian rosewood one sound wise (as I already stated elsewhere).

A bit of dyslexia 😉 , as it's indeed a Le Fay (Remington Steele), just like mine...

If you have nothing against remote digital exams and ebooks, Trinity is offering the "same" 8 grades as ABRSM, at way less. I bought the whole shebang for the 8 grades, including scales, arpeggios, exercises, pieces, sight reading, music theory with workbooks and model answers as well as audio, for £247,01 this year, just to reassess my level for fun and only for myself with my tutor, but without taking the exams as, at 60 years old, these sheets of paper called diplomas are of no use for me and I can already play pieces from grade 8. As a new subscriber, you get 25% off on your first order, and if you buy a bundle, you'll get 50% off on one sight reading book (the cheaper IIRC). Until today at 23:59 there's also a 25% off without being registered. This is what I bought: https://store.trinitycollege.com/collections/piano-exam-pieces-plus-exericses-from-2023-extended-edition/products/all-grades-bundle-piano-exam-pieces-from-2023-extended-edition https://store.trinitycollege.com/collections/piano-exam-support-material/products/sight-reading-piano-initial-grade-1 https://store.trinitycollege.com/collections/piano-exam-support-material/products/sight-reading-piano-grades-3-5 https://store.trinitycollege.com/collections/piano-exam-support-material/products/sight-reading-piano-grades-6-8 https://store.trinitycollege.com/collections/theory-of-music-workbooks The syllabus is free: https://www.trinitycollege.com/resource?id=9166 https://www.trinitycollege.com/qualifications/music/grade-exams/about And here are the fees for all and everything: https://support.trinitycollege.com/support/solutions/articles/202000096448-fees-and-payment-uk-ireland#:~:text=This article provides the official fees and,are outside of the UK and Ireland%2C Worth a check, no?

Nope, I always look forward and I've already seriously trimmed down my collection. That said, I hope you have a strong back...

Congratulations! I love this toilet seat colour too and as I already wrote: They are my favourite Fender colours.

There is also the Roland V-Combo VR-09-B and some Crumar models may fit in your budget, but most of them are without internal speakers and only 61 keys... The Roland is priced new around £600, so certainly in your price tag second hand.

44 years ago, after my summer job as a 16 years old student, I bought a second hand ... electric guitar with an amp, and not knowing a damn thing about their value I paid them more than the new price, but it was locally, so I had IT! The seller showed me how to play the Smoke on the Water riff and I played it every day trying to learn the rest of the song and some chords on an out of tune guitar as I had no tuner except that kazoo thingy producing an A, but my ears weren't that good back then, so it was an equal approximative non Bach tuning... 🤪 Then 2 years later a friend of mine forgot and lost the pile of records I lent him in the train, and the Chrome (remember that band?) Box was impossible to find as it was a limited edition, so he gave me his Maya EB-2 as a compensation and it started it all. I made a few hundreds gigs over this period, but never reached @Happy Jack 1000 goal (see what I did here). But a few months ago, I definitely focused on piano, and never touched a bass again, and certainly never will again. So 2025 has been a year of musical changes for me. That's life.

Glad to see you back in 22 years ago...

Imagine a banjo, an accordion, a bagpipe or the three of them instead... That day could have been Armageddon for you.

Here is the reason for this request, @BigRedX... 😉

You'll have to use the USB B (To Computer) to use the MIDI, the other port (USB A) being for "flash" memory like any key available. I answered you. Santa. 😂

If you want to use two dedicated MIDI devices, as MIDI is an in/out protocol system, you'll need something like the CME that you mentioned with an USB B to A or C cable: https://www.thomann.co.uk/cme_h4midi_wc.htm You'll need to have 4 MIDI cables, 1 USB B to A or C cable and a power supply. Otherwise, there are simple USB to MIDI cables like this one: https://www.thomann.co.uk/cme_u2_midi_pro.htm But you'll need an USB B to A adapter as it's always been that stupid, like this one: https://www.amazon.co.uk/PRO-POWER-Adaptor-High-Speed-Converter/dp/B0839VHWVD I've used the Roland/Cakewalk device with great success, but it's USB powered: https://www.thomann.co.uk/roland_um_one_mkii.htm Mine is an old Cakewalk, which has become sticky over the years, and you can get it for postage fee, should you want it:

Lovely!

Don't rush, there are other possibilities like the Roland/Cakewalk MIDI to USB devices. I'll get back later as I have to leave right now.

Now that I finally got Tulpa's cd a few days ago, I can also say there's some 80's Lou Reed meeting the Feelies meeting the Smashing Pumpkins vibe in it and I really like it a lot (and I'm more into jazz and classical music these days), it's so refreshing and making me feel young again. 😱🤪😉😂 Congratulations to your kids @Kirky.

If you play mwah twice, does it become mwah mwah? Just asking for a friend.

That's a question I'm almost always asking myself when people are reviewing instruments or anything musical. Play the same thing each time, bloody hell, it's the only way to compare things.

This seems to be your preferred version (I love those toilet seat colours too) and you can change the bridge for a more modern one, but you won't have a through body string mounting if that's what you're looking for... Otherwise, Shuker can make you your dream Jazz Bass for, I think, a quite similar price, worth having a thought about it.

Makes me want to put my pristine Revox B291 turntable on, but after 15 years of silence, the capacitors must be a bit dry and the motor may start a fire... No need for a preamp as I did the Studer/Revox mod to turn the internal RIAA preamp on, which is a great plus. Itching a bit...