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A wonderful weekend of music making and fun awaits you at Home Organ Holiday 2013. This time it is a very special event – Allens Music’s 10th Lowery Weekend anniversary! They hope you can join them for what promises to be a memorable weekend. In addition to this they have a new venue, the beautiful [...]

Yamaha have launched their P35 – their cheapest graded piano action digital piano. Bringing affordable 88-key action to the masses, the Yamaha P35 is an easy to use stage piano with focus on great sound and functionality. It features Graded Hammer Standard (GHS) keys, variable touch sensitivity and excellent AWM stereo sampling. Ideal for a [...]

Wersi organs are renowned for the big Euro organ sound, thanks to the drawbars created by this popular organ manufacturer. The drawbar sound was made famous by organists such as Klaus Wunderlich, Franz Lambert, Curt Prina and Mark Whale. The spectra was one of the most popular instruments ever created by Wersi and the company [...]

The Yamaha NP31 is a budget priced portable piano and priced at just £239 is a pretty impressive instrument for any pianist. With 76 notes, this incredibly lightweight keyboard features 10 sounds ranging from Vibraphone, strings, Electric piano etc.. The strings are reasonably good quality as are the other voices for such a well priced [...]

Although Yamaha’s ubiquitous NS10 monitor attained almost ‘industry-standard’ status, they were never particularly accurate, especially at the bass end. Yamaha’s new HS80M active model, however, has been designed with the intention of offering a flat and true reference with a realistic degree of bass extension. The cosmetic styling clearly owes something to the NS10, specifically [...]

I finally decided to buy the R26 for the XLR’s (with P48) and the 4-channel possibilities with a 1/8″ plug in stereo mic, and the apparent ease to change levels for both pairs of mics on the fly. I won’t use (or very much doubt I will use) the internals, so I’m never going to [...]

The BK-7m is a beautifully designed piece of furniture, which in your living room beside your digital Piano in polished Mahogany will add not only decent style but as well the future to your kids practicing to become stars. I really like the clean style, the buttons feel stable, the select wheel seems a bit [...]

Pete Shaw, organist and entertainer has joined the team at Korg. He will be helping Korg to promote the PA3x Pro and the new PA600. Korg manufacture a superb range of synths and DJ kit. I am sure Pete will help korg to steer their arranger instruments in the right direction, and wish Pete well [...]

Yamaha’s new S950 can be summed up in one simple word; Incredible. Yamaha continues to offer incredible musical technology and innovation with the new PSR-S950 arranger workstation keyboard. The Yamaha PSR-S950 workstation keyboard effectively blurs the line between digital and acoustic sound and the result will change your musical perceptions forever. Yamaha have recorded professional [...]

If you had to describe the new BX5 D2 Monitors in one word, it would be “clean.” These bi-amped beauties are, hands down, some of the most accurate (uncolored) speakers I’ve listened to in a long time. That’s fantastic if you happen to be mixing an album in a recording studio — which, admittedly, is precisely [...]