FATAR VMK 188 PLUS SERIES
I have several photos of the work progress and will show them in this series of posts. I am sorry it took me so long but I finally did open up the vmk-188+ and replaced ALL the rubberĬontacts. Still, what you've got today is beautiful and worth the $500 (verses the $150,000 real thing). Bosendorfers are _famous_ for lack of noise, just more volume as velocity goes up (but not your Bosendorfer: please re-voice and re-sample, all 19000+ samples (sorry)).
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My guess is, ALL the hammers need either deep needling or replacement. Much of the recorded samples give WAY too much noise at the highest dynamic levels. Your samples, your recordings are great but the piano itself needs voicing badly. Even though I love it and it's the best virt or real one I've had, I must say these EWQL guys should fix their piano. (Hey, I remember reading that Rubenstein, the Russian virtuoso that preceded Tschiakowski (sp?), in later life practiced 20 hours a day and could give 2 back-to-back 2-hour concerts (total 4 hours)! A master and a worker!)Īnd back to the EWQL virtual instrument. The next day I couldn't play because my fingers were so bruised. I remember the first day I got it really going (took several days to get there) I probably played it for 6 to 8 hours straight.
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Oh, and for the past few weeks I have been running the East West Quantum Leap Bosendorfer 290 virtual instrument. (I have played it approximately an average of 1.5 hours daily.) To give an idea of my usage rate: mostly I practice/play Chopin's works, also a little Liszt and Rachmaninoff. My Vmk is about 18 months old and more and more notes now are starting to go bad, in terms of original (great!) touch. Soon as I get them I will open up my Studiologic VMK-188+ and replace the lot of them and post pictures of the process here in this forum). I have Fatar rubber/plastic (?) key contacts on back order since January 2010 and am still waiting for delivery.