JC>> The Drums is a very expensive instrument... :(  Sad but true..
 TS> How about those keyboardists who still maintain a Hammond organ with
 TS> Leslie, in addition to a new fangled e-piano/synth?  How many people
 TS> still remember maintaining electromechanical motorized drivers?
 TS> Even Fender Rhodes piano maintenance was bad enough....
A Leslie has 2 rotating motorized electromechanical cones, plus tube driver
amps.  A Fender Rhodes was an electromechanical portable piano, predating any
synthesizers with good enough wave tables to sound decent.  
Drum kits by comparison are pretty straightforward.  Those other devices have 
a
high enough ongoing maintenance cost so as to end up fairly expensive 
ompared
to initial costs.  Use of either has become rare, outside a few bands trying 
to
retain historical accuracy.  
Terry
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