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I'm Adamannis.

I'm Peter Martin.

You're listening to the You'll Hear Podcast.

Music advice flowing lovingly at you. Flowing with lots of love intranets toward your way we talk a lot about music we talk a lot about the piano we talk a lot

about improvising and we do some playing here and peter we get a lot of lovely compliments about

the playing it's really fun to play with you at some of these on some of these. But from henceforth, I refuse. You refuse. Well,

that's what we're going to be talking about because it is oftentimes not our preferred way

to play the piano on mini-controller keyboards. It can often be a very frustrating experience,

especially I'm trying to connect with Peter. I want some dynamic range. I don't really have it here. And I thought maybe we can talk about what that's like.

And specifically, I've seen some instances where you've talked about this where people have wanted

to hire you to perform. Right. Unhirable. And they say, well, we don't have a piano, but maybe you could bring a keyboard. And I've seen your response, which is like, well, listen, you're going to pay for me to come here, which is, you know, that's not cheap. It's Peter Martin. And then you're going to have me playing a keyboard, and it's not going to be very good because the keyboard is not going to sound very good. I kind of feel the same way. I've done

gigs where I've actually rented a piano myself even if I have to build that into the budget.

If I know that it's going to be one of those kinds of gigs where it's better that I have an

acoustic piano, even an upright, I'll do that for oftentimes before a keyboard because I like a

hammer hitting something and I need that feel

to really be able to express what I want to express on an acoustic piano situation. Now,

we can talk about all these different occurrences and maybe some of the pitfalls of just

demanding a piano and how maybe some people don't have that. Get me my Steinway. Get me my

Faziole. But I thought maybe we could just talk about that. Like, why don't you, you know, why isn't your preferred instrument some kind of keyboard? Yes. And first of all, full disclosure, because you forced me into this ridiculous title of why Peter refuses to perform on keyboards, it's not entirely not entirely accurate. You're going to find some videos.

Yeah, we do it all the time. And there's a lot of videos online of me playing. I mean, for years, I played with Diane Reeves, and I almost always had a keyboard and a piano. I don't think there was every time I just had a keyboard. I mean, something got really screwed up. Yeah. But that was more repertoire driven. That's right.

But just that's a perfect example.

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