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After reading these comments, I find it -a bit- extremely idiotic that you don’t start students out on the saxophone, be it alto or tenor. I picked one up a month ago and taught myself a great deal. It is fine for someone to start on the saxophone. An exception to this would be bari and soprano saxophones. To switch to one of those start them on alto/tenor *then* switch to soprano or bari. Please consider this in future. Thank you.
Hey there. I'm sure there are band directors who agree with you and do this. We are merely commenting on what most band directors do. We don't make the rules. :)
Thanks for watching! We didn't forget the saxophone. I believe the line is: "...if you want to play the saxophone someday - clarinet is your first step." Most band directors don't start students on saxophone. They start on clarinet and then go to saxophone later. Of course, there are a few exceptions, but sax is not generally considered a "starter instrument."
Not at all! We rent plenty of saxophones! We just want to make sure students and their families have all the information (good and bad) about each instrument so they can decide which one to start with. ...and most band directors don't start students on sax. They start on clarinet and then move to saxophone later.
This piano is no longer available, but you can find the pricing and info for its replacement here: pianos.rivertonmusic.com/pianos/digital/roland/gp-6.php
I love Squires. Ive had a few of them now. As a customisation hobbyist Squires are the best. They can be upgraded easily and take a proper setup like a champ. I found a black Affinity at a flea market for 50 bucks. Looking closer i realized it had a completely flamed neck, dark slab rosewood board, and a nice dark skunk stripe. This was a unicorn! I bought it. I put a brass block on the bridge, as well as Graphtech Tusq saddles. Graphtech nut and string retainers as well as strap buttons. I wired it with a 53 Tele pick-up at the neck and 57 style Texas Specials in the middle and bridge positions. Wired like a Tele on a three way switch controlling the neck and bridge pickups, with the middle pickup swelling in or out on its own voume knob. Master volume and tone to control the whole mix, and some open gear Hipshot locking tuners to put the cherry on top! Point being that it only cost me about 375$ to build a truly custom one off guitar. If i had started with a "real" Strat i would have been afraid to go that far with it. I even carved the paint to create gloss black hot rod flames over unfinished wood. Its truly one of a kind and its a Squire!
I have CV s ( 50 tele Butterscotch and 70 thinline natural finish) i mean the 50 s has brass bridge parts which cost alone 40-50 when retrofitting newer teles, bone nut, Vintage Tuners , a unbelievably good neck, CV teles are guitars that stay in tune for months, they come in top shape, Well inspected No issues with the fretwork at all, that doesn't mean minor adjustments may or have to be done to the choice of the player and you end up with a guitar that feels well when playing and Sounds more than reasonable! Like any other guitar a Pick up xchange can do great things: Example i love Fat 50 s or V mods in strats( Fenders), followed by Texas Specials, for tele ( Squier) i prefer Cristle tone pups ( Solid Body) for thin line f hole the 2 Widerange Humbucking but here the Fender ones with These QuNiFe stuff , they just sound brilliant! I may one time want to retrofitting a HH thin line with a P90 neck and Humbucker bridge ( a Phat Cat and a Antiquity or a 57 Classic, but keep it for you)❤
You can use any of the Roland Club soft synths that you have access to with the GP-9, but you wouldn't be loading them onto the piano. You'd use the piano to control them, etc.
There's no micro USB port on the GO:Mixer Pro-X. It's USB-C. They include 3 cables, however, that can help anyone with older connections (micro, lightning, etc.) connect to the unit.
I have a walnut finish Squier Stratocaster. I replace the bridge and tuning machines. Cost me a little bit but boy do I love my guitar. I think Squires are great. I’ve been playing since 1974 and to me they are great I highly recommend them for anybody beginners to advance players. Wow they’re sure great put a little money into one and you really get a beautiful guitar. Thanks for the video. Have a great night.👍🏼❤️🎸😎
Does anyone know if the pickup height specs for squire-affinity strats are the same as those for standard fender Strat and if not what the affinity specs are. Thanks.
Squiers are fantastic value, no doubt. But they will require more maintenance. eg, input jacks become sloppy, tuners become imprecise. Cheaper components as a result of cutting costs of manufacture.
True. They certainly don't have Fender electronics, etc. We've seen a bunch of guys talking about how they've switched out the electronics to prevent that. Not a bad idea.
Squiers are kicking ass now! No…they are not as good as Fenders…but the gap has narrowed substantially the last 5-10 years. My 2000 American Standard Strat cost $1,100 purchased new. My 2021 Affinity Strat cost a little more than $200. The Fender is the better instrument…but not by 400-500%!! In fact, only a decent player with experience and a good ear could really appreciate the differences between the two, playing-wise. Before you drop $1500 or more on a Fender, consider purchasing two or three different Squiers!
I have 2 Squire guitars anyone can afford a guitar these days that's the easy part the hard part is learning how to play the darn thing, guitar is a hard instrument to learn how to play and even harder to master it but some have succeeded.
Hahaha! YES! Some of us have shorter fingers and it's not easy to get them around the neck for any length of time. I hear that! Hope you are still able to have some fun playing, tho!
Don’t fall for the myth that earlier Squiers were always junk. The original Affinity line made from 1996 to 1999 are incredible - the bodies and necks are full width, and built as good as anything ever to come out of California, and the pickups sound fantastic. They came with cheap tuners, pots, and switches, but that’s an easy and inexpensive fix.
We've heard this from a few folks. They really did step up their game in recent years. Nowadays, they really do stand on their own. Thanks for your thoughts!
I have this 100 dollar Squier from 10 years ago that I put about 400 bucks of hardware in... not great. I would love an Affinity or better to put the hardware in that. I tried one once and the Affinitys are really nice guitars.
@@Rivertonmusic just for home. I have a Squire classic vibe 50 strat…it’s amazing…Squire jazz master..Affinity Tele..and the Stagemaster. 😂. Guess I’m a fan .. I have a Gretsch and Ibanez oh and a Ovation celebrity…but I play my squires mostly
Squiers are much much better now than 15-20 years ago. Production processes are certainly better nowadays. As an example, the Classic Vibe series is on par with any standard Strat IMO.
i have a 1998 red affinity strat. full thickness body. rosewood fretboard and lovely aged white pickguard and knobs etc. tuners have been changed and a cheap set of alnico pickups. plays as good if not better than my sons mexican standard strat.@@Rivertonmusic
I have quite a few Fenders of various origins, from CS to American Standard to Mexi to partscasters and my Squiers stand up to the best of them, especially the Paranormal series. Regardless of the name on the headstock, Squiers are solid instruments that have never let me down live....
Hey! Thanks for watching and for your comment. We're hearing from a BUNCH of Squier owners and they're all saying the same things. Those Paranormals are crazy popular... but it seems like most everybody loves their Squier guitars. Take it easy!
I have a number of Squiers. I have my 2001 Affinity Tele with 2 SC sized humbuckers (And it doesn't sound like a Tele anymore!!), a Tele Deluxe, a Squier VI, a Showmaster, a Jazzmaster Baritone, and a completely unmodified Affinity 1999 Strat (which may be the only unmodified one left on the planet). I love them all!!
I have a 2009 lefty Squier Affinity series Strat that is one of my best guitars. I have modded it quite a bit but the neck on it is superb. My best friend has a Classic Vibe Strat (HSS) and it's his main guitar for gigging, even over his late 70's Kramer DMZ 3000. Squiers are wonderful beginner instruments and make great mod platforms. I prefer the satin finishes on the Squier series over the gloss on the Fender Strats.
We've actually heard a bunch of folks say they prefer the satin finishes on Squiers, but gloss on the Fenders. Why do you think that is? No wrong answers - just curious as to your thoughts. Thanks for watching and for sharing your thoughts with us. We're really seeing a LOT of Squier love on this one!
I have 2 Custom Shops and an American Standard. 5 Squier Classic Vibes and an Affinity Strat and Tele. The Squier's are just great! With a good setup they are great guitars! Each one has a set of "upgraded" pickups from Fat 50's to 69's and they play and sound great! The stock pickups were fine, just didn't want them all to be the same. Now I have all the Strat bases covered! Don't be fooled by what's on the headstock. I'm just as proud if not more of my Squier "Collection" because they have been set up and upgraded to "my specs" and sound!
That's AWESOME! ...and very consistent with what we're hearing from other Squier owners. It's amazing to see how versatile these guitars are! Thanks for watching and for your feedback!
Any band or orchestra will need a variety of players on different instruments…. When it comes to elementary or middle school and even high school….. You don’t want for example in elementary to have 12 kids signing up to play alto or trumpet…. Gotta even then out for a balanced band or orchestra :)
Definitely! We always recommend checking with your band director if you want to play a certain instrument. Of course, if you have a natural affinity for alto or trumpet and those other 12 kids don't... Who knows?! It's always good to ask!
Hi, Cary! Usually, band directors recommend students who want to play oboe start with clarinet. ...but you might check with your band director and see what (s)he recommends. Thanks for watching!
Hi, Shoshi, and thank you! We're glad you liked the video! We just relaunched this channel recently and we're building up our followers from scratch. We're growing, though! Thank you for your encouragement!
. Is it possible to save presets of sounds in this application when connecting the FP30X and pull them out to play. And is it possible to use this application even when connecting to RU-vid with a cell phone for simultaneous playback?
Hello! Yes. You can save piano setups from the FP-30X in Piano Designer. Keep in mind, though, that the FP-30X is not fully modeled, so it won't have as many options to customize the sound as the fully-modeled Roland models do. Still, you can save your presents in the app as we describe in the video and use them when you connect to your FP-30X. This app doesn't connect to RU-vid, though. That would be a Bluetooth AUDIO connection and this app connects via Bluetooth MIDI.
We're glad you like it! The HP704 is a popular piano, but both the HP and LX sound chips can be amazing if properly setup. Remember - these are modeled pianos so everything depends on how you program them. Luckily, we help our clients set the piano's tone to sound best in their space... so it's not a problem!
Hello, Nadhirah May, and thanks for contacting us! Roland digital pianos are tested at the factory. They are designed to hold up past 100,000 key strokes per key. Playing any one key 100,000 times would take an average family 70 years. ...so Roland digital pianos are designed to last every bit as long as an acoustic upright - but with little or no maintenance costs during that time period. I hope that helps!
The GP-9 is great! We'll be uploading a video on that piano later. It definitely has a few upgrades, but it's also at a significantly higher price. It's a value judgement for sure.
In service of both the store and the brand, Baldwin pianos sound very much better than this video suggests. Regardless of the quality of the playing, this piano has obviously not yet received the prep work required by every piano, however expensive, before it invites either pubic audition or performance. Voicing (in addition to regulation) is required to massage the best sound from an organic mechanical device given even the highest order of construction quality at the factory. The most expensive European pianos require just as much precision adjustment to complete the synergy of its many parts in order to realize the instruments latent mechanical potential. And the real value of Baldwin pianos is the 'latent' or 'under-realized' potential they leave the factory with. Baldwin, unlike many other pianos made in Asia, are designed and constructed to aspire to a different sound that is more time consuming to realize, but wherein its superiority, value, and quality bloom! The high price of European grands and the sophistication of those who invest in them demand the investment in prep work, while the intendedly simple and 'fixed' quality of Asian pianos negates and resists augmentation. Baldwin is a moderately priced piano with premium potential, so the retailer will likely invest only 'moderately' or not at all if the buyers sophistication doesn't support the costly 'extra' investment necessary to complete the sale. Selling Baldwin as furniture is...tragic. Regardless, the process starts with tuning the instrument to a symbiotic temperament, and this instrument is only roughly tuned at best. It needs, and deserves better, as does the retail celebration of a brand that still harbors within its mechanism the seeds of sonic and aural greatness. New Baldwins, 'properly' prepped, sound unlike other Asian built pianos (they are built in a dedicated space in the Parson factory by committed Baldwin specialists) from same factory. Baldwin would be...'more', given due expectation and chance!
Thanks for your great comments! It's true. We'd love to do a full concert prep on every piano, but that doesn't make financial sense. Also, it's even harder to get the nuances of that sound onto a RU-vid video. Pianos are notoriously difficult to record. As we have said many, many times - the best way to experience these pianos is to do so in person. Hopefully this video will motivate folks to see them live. Thanks for watching and for your feedback!
@@Rivertonmusic Pianos are actually very easy to record. I purchased a beautiful BP190 from you last year. I am an audio engineer and would be happy to record my piano for you if you would like to send a player or two down to my home. I am not a player but purchased it for my recording studio. I have all the mics and equipment needed to make a beautiful recording for your videos.
Thanks, Jeremy. I guess I should have said "outside of a recording studio with all the professional microphones, etc., pianos are notoriously difficult to record." :) Thanks for the offer. It's a great idea!
