{"id":182,"date":"2006-12-11T23:33:01","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T23:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.gregbueno.com\/wp\/sakufu\/2006\/12\/11\/didnt_i_already\/"},"modified":"2006-12-11T23:33:01","modified_gmt":"2006-12-11T23:33:01","slug":"didnt_i_already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/2006\/12\/11\/didnt_i_already\/","title":{"rendered":"Didn&#8217;t I already buy this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know how it happened or even when it happened. I just know <a href=\"\/sakufu\/?entry_id=2881\">one day<\/a>, I <a href=\"\/sakufu\/?entry_id=2890\">discovered<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vintagesynth.com\/kawai\/kawaik4.shtml\">Kawai K4<\/a> I bought from eBay back in January 2005 wasn&#8217;t working.<\/p>\n<p>I brought it down to Strait Music Co. to see if it could be repaired, and after waiting a month for the repair guy to get to my keyboard, I learned <a href=\"\/sakufu\/?entry_id=2916\">it was beyond hope<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>About half an hour ago, I dropped $250 on eBay for another Kawai K4. I had attempted to bid on a few postings in the past few days, but I always got outbid. I hate the bidding process. Tonight, a seller included a &quot;Buy It Now!&quot; option, which is how I bought it the last time. So that&#8217;s what I did again.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Thing is, the K4 figures into only a few of my songs. Two of them &#8212; &quot;Five (Ambiguous Friendships)&quot; and &quot;Hear the Wind Sing&quot; &#8212; rely on it heavily. The thought occurred to me to stop depending on that synthesizer for those timbres, because who knows? I may find myself scouring eBay in another year looking for another replacement.<\/p>\n<p>But it occurs to me that could happen with the other hardware synths I own. When my Kurzweil PC-88 crapped out, my first act was to jump on eBay to see how much it would cost to find a replacement, in the off-chance it couldn&#8217;t be repaired.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, I&#8217;m at the point where I would rather use software than hardware. If there were emulation for the <a href=\"http:\/\/pitstop.kenjin.net\/index.shtml\">Korg N364<\/a>, Kurzweil PC-88 and Kawai K4, I&#8217;d use it.<\/p>\n<p>But I know if the relatively newer synths reached a point where they couldn&#8217;t go on, I&#8217;d be hitting up eBay to find them all over again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About half an hour ago, I dropped $250 on eBay for another Kawai K4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vital-signs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Bkjq-2W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}