Which piano is used for sampling the White Grand?
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Which piano is used for sampling the White Grand?
Which Grand Piano is actually used for the White Grand?
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Re: Which piano is used for sampling the White Grand?
From all the hints given it appears to be a Steinway B 
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Re: Which piano is used for sampling the White Grand?
I heard that they borrowed the one Count Basie played in "Blazing Saddles"
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Re: Which piano is used for sampling the White Grand?
Hi Pablo,
1974, they had a Steinway right in the L.A. desert? In Basie's Pablo years? And that's the one SampleTekk borrowed in Stockholm, when they sampled the White Grand? I take this as a nice hoax, fake news as you say nowadays. Great humour. Or do I miss a link?
1974, they had a Steinway right in the L.A. desert? In Basie's Pablo years? And that's the one SampleTekk borrowed in Stockholm, when they sampled the White Grand? I take this as a nice hoax, fake news as you say nowadays. Great humour. Or do I miss a link?
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Re: Which piano is used for sampling the White Grand?
strictly humor -- that's the most famous white grand I can think of
hoax/fake news are terms of evil coined by the orangutan currently residing in the White House, and a very humorless topic
hoax/fake news are terms of evil coined by the orangutan currently residing in the White House, and a very humorless topic
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Re: Which piano is used for sampling the White Grand?
Thanks, pablomastodon! Humour is not my best discipline - I'm sometimes not so sure about other people I don't know much.
Sussko, here are my collected assumptions about Nord piano sounds.
Sussko, here are my collected assumptions about Nord piano sounds.
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Re: Which piano is used for sampling the White Grand?
pablomastodon wrote:strictly humor -- that's the most famous white grand I can think of
hoax/fake news are terms of evil coined by the orangutan currently residing in the White House, and a very humorless topic
Please Pablo, keep your politics off this forum. This is not the place for it.
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Re: Which piano is used for sampling the White Grand?
What about John Lennon's one in Imagine?pablomastodon wrote:strictly humor -- that's the most famous white grand I can think of
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Re: Which piano is used for sampling the White Grand?
Hi John, it was me who started the "politics" talk - just in another pitch than Pablo. I just was alluding to standards in human interaction.
Besides, I'm quite convinced the original White Grand wasn't white. Just a marketing name to allude to the character. I believe, it's the third image on that Sampletekk page.
Besides, I'm quite convinced the original White Grand wasn't white. Just a marketing name to allude to the character. I believe, it's the third image on that Sampletekk page.
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Re: Which piano is used for sampling the White Grand?
I didn't see your earlier "political" post, it's just getting tiring, every where you look people have to make inappropriate political comments. I don't come here for political BS, there are too many other forums for that. This is about our NORDS.FZiegler wrote:Hi John, it was me who started the "politics" talk - just in another pitch than Pablo. I just was alluding to standards in human interaction.
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