PLAY IT LOUD
Ray Charles may never have had any problems, but the majority of rock piano, players have found that trying to maintain a full, undistorted level of piano sound while the rest of the group are pumping up their amps is a difficult task. A variety of solutions have been tried.
PLAY IT LOUD
by Guitar Arnie
Burton Cummings' Amazing Pickup
Ray Charles may never have had any problems, but the majority of rock piano, players have found that trying to maintain a full, undistorted level of piano sound while the rest of the group are pumping up their amps is a difficult task. A variety of solutions have been tried. Upright and grand pianos have been replaced by electric pianos which rely on electrically keying. A number of pickups and electric reed systems have been introduced, but, until recently the problems of getting a piano sound out of an electric piano or getting enough amplification of a regular piano have caused many rock keyboard men to switch over to organ or settle for not being heard at all during loud passages, ing loud passages.