Club Night 3rd August 2010

A packed house enjoyed a fantastic evening of music at our Club Rooms. This was the first Club Night with our brand new Yamaha Clavinova CVP-509 and if we thought our CVP-305 was good well this latest technology beastie just blew us away with it's responsiveness and clarity of sound. The first half saw Club members entertain us on the Clavinova with one member, Yvonne Moller, playing her Korg Pa1X. We also had a Japanese visitor play the piano for us with great sensitivity - thank you Mayu Murakami.
The second half was taken over by our guest artist, Roy Steen, who captured our enthusiasm for his lovely touch for about 50 minutes. Roy played his Roland G-800 for the first four pieces to great effect. He then played two pieces on the Clavinova by popular request and then proceeded to wow us with his mastery of the organ when he thrilled us with his superb playing, sounds and choice of songs on the Club's Technics GA3 theatre organ. There was hardly a dry eye in the house by the end of Roy's performance. Thank you Roy for a wonderful evening and also for having visited the Club on several occasions in the last few months to familiarize yourself with the GA3 organ and prepare disks of registrations.
Chris Larking was going to make a cameo appearance to launch our Clavinova but was unfortunately held up with a Corporate gig that extended beyond schedule. The good news though is that the Club still has four pieces or so in credit from Chris for a future evening!

John Beales won the raffle which was a lovely sandwich tray. Thanks as always must go to the Committee members for tirelessly making sure the evening went so well.

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