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Average rating:
4.7 out of 5
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Lots of folks looking for a manual, try here: http://raytclark.0catch.com/K1000/Manual/Manual.html and also check out "the group" at yahoo; http://groups.yahoo.com/group/K1000-K1200/ I "highly" recommend getting "Kurle" sofware; http://members.aol.com/awsoftware/ even if you have been using a mac system, get an old pc, a SB compatible sound card and get up to speed. If you don't have "Kurle" you aren't using your Kurzweil!! See you at "the group".
Ray
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Oops. Forgot to rate the K1000. I've owned about 12 keyboards, beginning with a Wurlitzer electric in the sixties, then 3 Rhodes and an RMI in the seventies, then a couple of Yamahas, now 3 Kurzweils. The K1000 is far and away the best I've played, even though sellers are misleadingly calling it "regular piano action." It's weighted (and the weights keep coming off) but does not have the "hammer action" of the newer models. The piano, vibes, string sounds are vastly superior to anything since.
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I'm totally frustrated that no keyboard subsequent to the K1000 comes close to the quality of the single piano sound of the K10000. I have a Kurzweil SP-76 and PC2, and they're both disappointing, especially the PC2. The middle register simply lacks the warmth, presence, naturalness of the K1000. After an hour of playing any of the dozens of piano sounds on the new models, I tire of them--distant, remote, overly percussive. Not so the K1000. Does anyone else hear the difference? Is it due to the technology being moved from Japan to Korea (Youngchang) after 1990? I'd also have to say the vibes are far more "realistic" than those of the later keyboards. Also, there's a patch on the Version 5 upgrade, "Warm Organ," that's hard to beat.
Here's the downside of the K1000. I simply wore out the action and can no longer afford to bring it in every week for partially effective repairs. The counterweights insist on becoming unglued, and the felt wears out in a couple of months. Lots of key chatter and uneven action. Also, the tiny LED display gets dimmer and dimmer, and the repair man said there's no easy fix! And of course this is not a keyboard to own if you don't have a manual. But face it, after 10 years even a "mint" used K1000 is going to be drier, more brittle, more subject to breakdown, especially if you play out every week. So I'm beginning accept that I may have to kiss the K1000 goodbye and settle for on one its inferior descendants. Has anyone discovered a currently available keyboard that begins to capture the quality of the K1000?
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I've had my K1000 since 1988. It is my portable piano. Don't leave home wothout it! Great aftertouch and the chorus piano is SWEET. Strings and choir are superior. Being able to use all sixteen channels is unbelievable. I'll keep it till it falls apart.
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I've had the K1000 for about one year. The prices are great for this keyboard now, and you can't beat the sounds that are there. The ROM area only allows you to "rearrange" RAM sound fonts, but there's still incredible flexibility in the programing. Layering up to 4 difference sound fonts with effects specific to each layer (you can mix piano, organ and choir and have the mod wheel control "Leslie rotation speed" on just the organ or vibrato on just the voices, etc. I recommend getting "Kurle" from "At Work Software" if you use a pc with soundcard. This allows you to view the programing options on your computer screen instead of the very dim lcd on your K1000. If any one is using this keyboard now please feel free to contact me and share notes. There just isn't much support now for this model and they are still "very" good keyboards.
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