I had a very strange experience with my Roland digital piano on Tuesday. It's still unnerving me a bit.   I was recording a practice session, and half way through it decided to try a piece I haven't played in a few years. I sang it at 14 in the school choir - I remember liking it so much I borrowed the accompanist's sheet music one weekend so I could learn it on the piano. It's a fun, burlesque-style tune from Godspell called Turn Back O Man

The words go ...

Turn back, O Man
Forswear thy foolish ways;
Old now is Earth and none may count Her days ...

Yet thou, Her child
Whose head is crowned in flame;
Still will not hear thine inner God proclaim ....

Turn Back O Man ... Forswear thy foolish ways.

Anyway, I was enjoying the piece and the nostalgia immensely, really getting into the rhythm and singing the words in my head as I played along ... and I was building up the big crescendo toward the climax at the end ... and all of a sudden WHAMMO! It sounded like someone had pounded on the piano, playing exactly the same chord I was but at twice the volume, and on a different piano sound!

Well, I nearly jumped right out of my skin - because as far as I know, that is physically impossible to do on my keyboard! You simply cannot dub in with one sound while recording on another! This happened once before on this piano, many years ago, when some horrible-sounding chords suddenly thundered out in a middle of a recording I'd made the day before. The music I'd recorded faded out -- and then it sounded like someone smashed on the lowest keys on the piano with both fists three times -- and then the music I'd recorded faded in again. Now, we'd listened to that recording after I made it too -- and the mysterious sounds weren't there until the next day. I'll never forget the look on my kid's faces the next morning when we heard it .. all four of us nearly jumped out of our skins.

I'm just wondering if anyone else has experienced this with a digital piano. Could it be some sort of computer "glitch"? Or should I study up on how to exorcise a digital piano?

;-)   (I think ...)

daylia