Anyone ever tried the Waldorf Zarenbourg yet?

[gunnar]

I don't think it has gone into production yet although they have been pretending so for about two years now (reminds me of a simular electric piano!). Maybe someone has played it at a tradeshow or something? Here's the link to the maker (eventually):
http://www.waldorfmusic.de/en/products/zarenbourg
Let me know what you think...

[HammondToby]

I played it last year on the Frankfurt Music Fair... At that point, there were just two prototypes with different keybeds. This is a physical modeling piano and the models were barly more than layouts, although one piano suited my fingers quite well. I talked a while to Wolfram Franke, the chief developer, and at that point, they focused on the Blofeld.

Unfortunatly, I got ill last weekend and I doubt, that I can make it to the Fair this year. Otherwise, I'd give an update about the zarenbourg.

Best regards
HammondToby

[gunnar]

Thanks Toby!
What was it like though?

Get well soon!

[HammondToby]

At that point of the developement and in this surrounding, you couldn't really say, what it's like. The 'harder' keybed reminded me of the Fatar TP-10 in my Kurzweil, the softer I couldn't play to good, I bet, it was one of the cheeper Fatars.

The sound was something like the bark of a MK-I-Rhodes without the bell within the attack, but what can I really say, it was a year ago and I don't remember every detail.

Best regards
HammondToby

[gunnar]

ok, cheers man.

[Jordy]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LBkkjxGDtgI
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-mbVulW6QeI

Sounds very very thin to my ear.

[gunnar]

Thanks for the links.
I had seen those too and I agree that the sounds seems to be rather bad, but that could be the speakers or even a bad mic on the camera, so it's not fair to judge from these particular recordings...
To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if this is the last we'll ever hear from the Zarenbourg. I still think the idea was good though.