Kurzweil went out of Business?!?!?!

[adamdiehl]

I heard that Kurzweil went out of business?? Is this true? Did someone else buy them out? Who will be providing customer service for Kurzweil keyboards?

[Nathan J]

This site says is half rumor/half true: http://community.sonikmatter.com/for...php/t1321.html

Hard to know for sure with some things Kurzweil's website appears fine.

[[Admin] PHugger]

Kurzweil's parent company Young Chang (one of the biggest Asian piano companies) is going bankrupt. The Korean government recently prevented the sale of the company.

Read about it HERE and HERE. The 2nd link will probably only appeal to Dave Reddel.

Kurzweil seems to be in OK shape, but will likely be sold.



PCH

[Elec R. Winner]

Originally Posted by PHugger

HERE[/url]. The 2nd link will probably only appeal to Dave Reddel.

PCH

I found the second link to be one of the most informative I've seen on the K-weil situation. Is this site 100% legit? It kinda sounds too good to be true... all the info on companies going bankrupt... as far as "ok shape" is concerned, I wouldn't go as far as to say that. I haven't seen anything half decent synth-wise since the K2500, and as far as service goes, I'm about to push our dealer refurbished MK 10 into the middle of a busy intersection during rush hour, and buy a Yamaha. I personally think it's really cool (sarcasm) when you're playing a soft prelude and all the sudden one of the keys on the just rebuilt machine decides it's going to play full velocity for a second... nice... At least they couldn't get bought out by Samick... talk about going from bad(young chang) to worse... Who makes good keyboards and synths now? We have 4 Korgs, and don't really like any of them. I guess Yamaha's about the only good one left... Our 2 Tritons are cool... but the Motif will blow it away.

[adamdiehl]

Yamaha??? Really? I haven't heard of any "top-of-the-line" Yamaha keyboards other than the Motif. Kurzweil won all the huge awards for the best sound sampling... but their interface is incredibly unintuitive. I think the "best keyboard" depends on what you're trying to do. If you want to do techo stuff... like if you're a dj... then the Korg Karma blows EVERYBODY else out of the water. If you're going for all around good stuff (no real "specialties") ... my vote is for Roland or the Korg models Trinity or Triton. I used an Alesis once in a band... I didn't mind that so much either... but it's "specialty" was definitely more "SYTHY" sounds. Never really messed a whole lot with the Motif, but I hear its amazing.

[Paris MkVI]

I love the Alesis piano voices - and the illusion of infinite polyphony Alesis provides. You can run glisses all day and not hear notes drop out.

Not that I want to run glisses all day, but you know. . .