Ahoy thar, Legion!
How yall doin' today?
This one isn't gonna be focused on the visuals or popups so if ya wanna alt tab while this
is running game out during this story or have something to listen to while chewin' on lunch
or whatever, feel free.
It's not intended to be a visual delight, it's more of a storytime.
Wanted to say thank-you again for all your input on our most recent Channel Update, the
feedback and comments you left were most helpful!
Ironically enough this ties into the first Channel Update from last year where I did
a quasi, not quite new-years-resolutionary sort of thing, but I did mention I was gettin'
the creative itch.
My proposal was to read actual books more, pick up an instrument....and some other stuff
I probably didn't do as I can't remember what it was.
So I attempted reading right away!
Managed to get through a whole book!
Most of a whole book, anyway.
I won't say what it was, but it involved more than 48 shades of beige.
I keed!
I keed.
It was supposed to break down how branding works but honestly it was one of the worst
things I've ever read.
Wouldn't even call it a book.
It was just a lot of words, together, printed on a page.
Many, many pages that were hard to get through.
So for this bein' my first foray back into the printed medium, didn't go so well!
Certainly didn't sell me on books, I'll say that much.
Went on for two hundred pages more than it needed to, and to top it off the guy who recommended
it in the first place had an interview with the author who banged out the main points
of the book in like an hour on a livestream.
Not only could I have saved myself a lot of time reading, I coulda had it playing as a
audiobook or something and gotten at least twice as much done in the same amount of time!
So, happy about that.
So let's try an instrument instead!
Already had my eyes on a keyboard as that's what I'm most familiar playing, and after
much back and forthing I found what looked like an awesome one.
I've played the tiny portable ones in the past and had fun with those, actually got
one over there in the corner.
It's like one of the one's that annoy people when you go down the isle, you just
tap it and run at like walgreens or somethin' like that.
Yeah.
But hey, it works and the battery is still functioning!
Even a real piano once or twice, but never owned a to-scale one myself.
Not full length, as come on now, those things ain't cheap, but a very nice one!
Sturdy!
I had but three requirements for it:
1.
Can be played while wearin' headphones as I'd be fully contributing to noise pollution
till I sort the thing out,
2.
Pressure sensitivity!
The keyboards I had (like the one in the corner) are just binary, you either pressed the key
down and it works, or you don't and it's silent.
So it would be harder to learn, but it would also be more authentic.
So in theory you'd take the muscle memory and take it from the keyboard tooo the piano
or whatever, if I so choose.
And DO know that when I played that piano once or twice it was QUITE the difference!
So I'd much prefer the higher difficulty but, gonna be harder entry, but better in
the long run to learn.
It's a skill.
Ya know, residual investment of time… or something.
I dunno sounds better that way, whatever.
It's what I wanted!
Pressure sensitiviy!
And if yer confused about the whole, 'how did the digital works because you know, it's
not physical and gravity and all that, same way!
Just uh…
Maybe a better example would be, when Im playing Warframe verses when Misses playing Warframe?
That spacebar there?
When she's hittin' that like a jackhammer the notes will be louder, than when I'm
just sorta tappin' mine and it's much more soft on the ears.
Basically, exactly the same, but instead of a loud WHAM yer gonna hear a note.
So that's the intention anyway.
And three:
The keys needed to light up.
Admittedly, this was… not…..
Not the most important one, but I don't splurge often and great googly, moogly I found one
that had all three!
Found 61 keys of glowin' greatness, ordered and sent it down my way!
Bonus was: it's an opened box item!So that took off like 10% or so, and that's fine
by me.
Still works!
Don't judge!
Problem was, when it arrived, it wasn't pressure sensitive at all.
The keys lit up, and there was 61 of them there (even counted!), but you tap em or you
slam em, it's the same volume.
I loaded up the page and tried to see where the discrepancy was, was it on my bad or their
bad or what?
Well, turns out somewhat neither.
The way the keyboards were promoted they used very similar phrasing, which uh, almost positively
I think to cause a situation like this.
They had what I believe was called Touch Response, and the other model I was lookin' at was
Touch Sensitive.
So Touch Response, Touch Sensitive, both in quotes I believe.
And minor off-topic there, why would you even promote something as touch response?
Like a buzzword?
Why?
"This keyboard is touch responsive."
"OH.
You mean it WORKS.
Congratulations.
You hit the key, and it makes a sound!"
In any case, in normal piano terms are "weighted" as in half or semi weighted, fully weighted,
or no weights at all.
Don't think you can have 'no weighted' keys on a real piano, but anyway.
Keyboards generally aren't weighted, you'd just hear them clicking or tapping away if
you don't have em plugged in or battery powered and the one I got was apparently what
would be considered semi weighted, but it seems with digital keys you need the whole
deal or just a higher tech model than what I got.
Soooo now I gotta return the darn thing because the lights are nice, but that sensitivity
was really what I was lookin' for, so off that goes to a marginal restocking fee I can't
do anything about, but I need that sensitivity!
Now, I was concerned at first, as it was a decent chunk-a change to be sendin' back through
mail and as right now,
RIGHT NOW I have a working keyboard.
It wasn't what I expected and I think they did try some shenanigans to help with that,
but was it worth the risk and time sendin' it back for something closer to what I wanted?
That'd be at least a week or two, you know shippin' it there and coming back without
no ivory ticklin' at all.
So should I make due with what I got?
I ended up staying up late that night practicing a song cause I figure if I do return it, time's
tickin' on your, you know, your window of opportunity on that.
I'm thinkin' Maybe it is okay, maybe I'll get used to it?
Unfortunately the song I started to play first was WAY BEYOND entry level.
I did manage to get a couple notes and timing's down as it just had to be fancy of course.
Couldn't make it easy on myself, but what can ya do?
I mean hittin' the keys, yeah that's pretty simple.
But which key and which time and where do my fingers go?
And this is a full scale, to scale keyboard now.
This is not the one where I can hit three keys if I slide fast enough with like my pinky
or somethin'.
So I wanted to practice!
AND I didn't want Misses to hear what I'm playin' because, you know… kinda surprise.
So I had to hear the audio from both the song and the music I was playing.
Well, I wouldn't call it music I was playin, but you get what I'm sayin'.
Can't play the song over teh speakers as she'll hear that, so even if she can't 'hear'
me practice it'd be obvious what I'm aimin' for.
And likewise couldn't listen with the keyboard speakers as those are friggin' loud.
I don't DO earbuds, not a fan.
So that meant I had one set of headphones diagonally across my head on one ear playing
the youtube video I was lookin' at, and the other pair of headsets oppositely diagonally
on the other ear, so I can hear what I'm clankin' away with.
Also I have this now, fairly large keyboard on this table that was not meant to hold it.
Annnd it's jammin' into my gut basically, just to give it clearance.
So that's awkward.
And I'm sure my posture was way wrong.
But I gots some practice in anyway!
The irony being that I had to move me keyboard out of the way to get the keyboard on this
desk to fit at all.
But anyway, to sum up that situation, I'd say:
The things we do for love, Legion.
You can't put a price tag on that.
Though I'm sure it woulda looked hilarious from a third person perspective on all the
gear I had on at the time and I'm sure it looked awkward as hell, me tryin' to play
it in time but ANYHOO--
So after couple hours of that, decided ONE: probably gonna start with something a little
it easier, ya know, give the give the fingers time to adjust.
And two:
Would likely be returnin' it that morning.
So I ended up sending it back the next day and figuring out which model I was goin' to
end up with for real.
And I founds it!
Already had it on my radar, it was between this one and the other one.
And since that one's out, that gives us... the 3200!
A little bit more pricey, but not by much.
Just need to get that refund deposited back into my account, use that and a little bit
extra and get this new one and we're all good to go.
So just need that refund.
...Just need that refund.
Waited a day or twooo.
And still waitin' on that refund!
Okay, gonna send those guys a message:
"Hey piano people, I sent mine back to you the other day and it says it has arrived,
but my refund hasn't uh...appeared just yet.
I can't wait to get the 3200 open box model--
I know it's another open box but it saves some change and it works just as good!
Assuming… it's the one I want.
Don't judge!
--so as soon as that wraps up I'll happily be ordering it and yadda yadda yadda."
What eventually took three different people to tell me (across several days) was that
I had to contact my money people myself and verify if something was wrong on my end.
Which ended up not working online, so we had to call the call center and oh that was a
fun wait on the phone.
But to summarize that experience: they have no record of the piano folks givin' the
money back.
Soooo, nope.
It's not their end.
Okay >.< "Hey Piano People, contacted the bank bros but they say it's not on their end."
To which they reply, oh it can take awhile to process give it another week or two.
So yeah, it's been about a month now.
Will NOT be buying the 3200 after all, at least not from this place anymore, but I have
seen it popup at a local big box!
So I send a completely new email their way and this time get lucky and land a manager.
Dude is surprised and apparently pissed off how things were handled, as my item was there
for weeks already and was available to be sold off the shelf and my refund never should
have taken this long to process.
Luckily for me I got my cash the next morning!
Unluckily for Piano People's email crew, that manager did not seem too happy after our phone
call, and unfortuantely for me as well, it's been so long the darn 3200 ain't in stock
at the local box no more.
But no worries!
Hard part done, got the money back!
We're gonna regroup… just need to wait.
And wait we shall!
One day a week or so later, I see that it's back in stock!
I make a mental note to buy it the next chance I get, as I was just sorta flippin' through
and was like "Sweet, gotta get that now that it's back in stock" and pretty soon
I'll finally get to playin' and learnin' the thing again.
So, I think it was a day or two later I finally line up some things and go to get it...
only they are out of stock again.
It would seem they only keep ONE of these keyboards at any one time in the store.
Oh, good.
Very good >.<
Thus begins a daily ritual of checking the site's listing every few hours.
Breakfast?
Keyboard.
Bio break?
Keyboard.
Half asleep?
--Better check the Keyboard.
Many, many swings but no hits.
So, bout a month goes by, and this is just routine now... but very late one night, or
early dependin' on yer perspective, that grayed out of stock icon changes to a beautiful golden
In Stock! one.
I can't process numbers too good at that hour, sp first thing in the morning, I'm gonna get
this keyboard.
It will be mine, Legion.
Oh yes.
IT WILL BE MINE.
I fall asleep.
Misses wakes me up some time later for breakfast.
We're in the kitchen, she's gathering something together like slices of cheese and I'm stirring
scrambled eggs and my mind is not really there yet.
One eye is half open, the other other one is just crying because the sun it too bright.
The mind is slowly booting up and starting to come back online.
Now, I will admit this would be a bit odd to someone out of loop, but knowing the process
that has lead up to this point, I think you'll appreciate this minor reenactment more:
[stir stir stir]
OH SSH---!!!!
I haven't run on a track in some time, but I assure you I woulda rocked the gold slippers
in the 100 keyboard dash that groggy morning.
Luckily my computer loads up fast and I've had the listing favorited for weeks at a time
now, as that sucker was in my shopping cart in record time.
You might recall I said this model was a bit pricier, and it was.
Biggest issue was there is no open box option from THIS store, so I had to take on the full
market price AND shipping costs right to the face.
And I hates me some shipping costs.
This guy ain't gonna be cheap, even for basic ground shipping.
Which you know I got, because like hell I'm payin' four times the amount for something
faster.
No.
I waited this long, I can give it another week.
BUT!
I also have a secret weapon.
Gift cards, Legion.
Gift cards!
If someone asks you to go in the wild for like a month and you'll win something, and
you can pick one item to take with ya…
...I would not take gift cards.
But dangit, they helped in this situation!
So I dunno how this analogy is gonna work out for ya, but today gift cards won the day,
Legion!
Years have they sat dormant, waiting for their moment to shine.
Some were completely fresh, still with the snot-like glue on their packaging, you know
what I'm talkin' about.
Others partially or almost entirely used up, but I kept em all the same as I dig the look
of em.
Even got one with a hologram effect, looks spiffy.
But anyway, I had to drop all these codes onto the cart before confirming the order.
Fortunately I weeded out all the empty cards on a previous attempt during a dry run of
this very process.
Again, I had time to practice!
But in what must have took no more than five minutes later... my order was in!
And not just any order, but a nice saving's amount, too!
What started out at 129.99 and then ten bucks more due to friggin' shipping, I walked
away payin' just under 60!
I ain't no coupon counter fanatic, but I gotta say that was one beefy crit of a gift card
use if I do say!
Week later it arrived, and I finally gots my 3200.
Which I promptly lost the power cord to and I haven't touched it since.
In my defense we had some flood concerns last year so we had to move things around and it
was misplaced in I think the second 'oh crap' shuffle.
So I never did get a chance to play an' practice none.
BUT!
Again, when moving stuff around to get wrapping paper for Christmas, found the darn thing
under, as luck would of course have it, an old computer keyboard.
A keyboard blocking a keyboard, not sure if that's irony at work a vengeance old piece
of tech to another, but it's a great story all the same.
Now to dust it off and give it another go!
And over these many months, I have picked out a few tracks I might wanna tackle!
So hope this uh, *short* tale gave ya a giggle, Legion!
Heat's goin' on so that's my queue to end this one.
If ya enjoyed it, lemme know in those comments below.
Or if you've had any other similar tales of woe and excursion!
But until next time, thank-you for watchin', and take care ^_^
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