An exception to this long‑established trend can be found in the form of the hybrid digital stage piano/MIDI master keyboard, which has proved quietly successful over the years. The same is true of many other ideas the 1950s 'boat‑car' and hard disk recording on the Atari, to name but two.
Some bright spark obviously thought that since instant coffee had been such a huge hit in Britain, and that the same could comfortably be said of the beverage known as tea, what British people obviously needed was instant tea granules but of course, the concept proved a complete duffer. Throughout history, many human beings have tried to make doubly‑large successes by combining two previously successful ideas in some way, and throughout history, on the whole, the composite concepts have failed. Paul Farrer considers whether a decade has made all the difference.
10 years on, they've revisited the concept with the heavyweight SGproX. In the mid‑'80s, Korg released their first Sampling Grand, the SG1, a digital stage piano that doubled as a MIDI master controller keyboard.
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