Keyboard Dream Part II
So this time I'm backstage at the Kinnicutt Center on Islesboro, getting ready for the show that is about to happen there. Then I see these four or five old keyboards leaning up all around the place! I knew that these were not something that was going to be used by the other bands, but what were they going to be used for? My dad is the music teacher on Islesboro, so it was likely that he had found them somewhere and had got them out for some reason. What was that reason, though?? While I was pondering the fact, I went over and checked them out. There were two large rectangular white ones. I was like, "Whoa! This is just like in that dream I had! Except this time... it's REAL!" They didn't have as many silly features as the one in my thiftstore dream, but of course not, duh, that wouldn't happen in real life, which this obviously was. There were a couple of reddish-black keyboards that I didn't get a chance to check out aside from the fact that I registered they were there. Then, in the middle of the backstage area, the motherload. The big daddy. The somehow-parental-metaphor-for-something-large-and-good. This thing was a full length keyboard. However many octaves that is, it was like the length of a piano. It had organ-style action on its keys, and a mod and pitch wheel that were just like on my Moog Prodigy. That's not even the half of it. Beyond the actual keys, it stretched back for what felt like three or four feet. It was flat for like a foot and a half and then sloped up at a gentle angle. All black, it had several knobs, almost all of the parameters were controlled by small, metal, multi-tonged keys about the size of a Monopoly piece and looking like a computer chip. I wasn't sure if you inserted said keys and turned them, and they acted like knobs? Or if there were bigger ones and you plugged them into several gaps at once, like a modular synthesizer? Or if it was some kind of strange combination of the two? Regardless, I only saw one or two of the keys, and it was obvious that it took more of them than that. It appeared that there were some *sigh* lost keys. Although this thing was about the size of a baby grand piano, I knew it was meant for stage performance and not just the studio. You see, it had two spotlights built into the back of it - like headlights, but set close together, with one angled down and to the left. This was intended to shine on the frontman of the band when the keyboard was set up stage right on a really high riser. This whole beautiful thing was made by Yamaha, I saw. Mike walked by as I was looking at it and I was like, "Yeah, all these keys and I bet it's only monophonic!" I knew that this probably wasn't true, though. Anything my dad would have bought would have had to be poly. I didn't know if it would make a classic synthesizer sound or not. I had in my mind more of a processed, wavery, electric piano. I was pretty anxious to find out what was going to happen with all of these keyboards. Then my dad walked backstage and was like, "Nate, look at all of these keyboards I found! Do you think that you're going to be able to take them?" I felt the excitement swell just as I woke up. Yes! Of course I'll take them! No! Fucking shit it was just a dream! No calm acceptance this time. I wanted that dream to be true!! I even remember thinking in the dream that it WAS true this time! I didn't even get to check out any of the other keyboards! And that one was SO glorious! And on top of it all, in real life, Jen is going minigolfing for free with her coworkers tonight and I don't get to go! ARRRRG!!!!