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http://www.nordkeyboards.com/sound-libraries/nord-piano-library/grand-pianos/silver-grand

It's a sampled Shigeru Kawai SK7 - so it seems the Club Rouge et Noir get's kind of an official touch...

And, tongue in cheek: Kawai action in a new iteration of the Nord Piano next?

oooooh! thanks for the heads up!

Blimey. Another good reason to buy a Nord!!

. There are several things that Nord should do to give everyone a reason to buy..

Add a SSD, so all the Nord sample libraries can be inside the stage piano, and add the same technollogy as Korg Kronos in allowing real time sample streaming from the SSD

Add real drawbars/sliders to the nord stage

... and keyboard.

Add a graded hammer action keyboard that feels like a piano.
Open up sample library creation software and tools to all.
Build in support for velocity switching into the sample synth.
Allow for user installable flash RAM expansion and/or an SSD rather than requiring a whole new keyboard that is the same as your last Nord with more sample storage.

The keyboard in Nord 2 is noisy when pressing the keys hardly and quickly.

Garywong0923
I agree. it's one of my biggest frustrations with the NS2. it frustrates me because on a (close to) $5000 board you would think that they could spring for a couple of bucks worth of felt to damp that noise. I suppose that if you're on stage in a band it doesn't really matter that much, but playing by yourself in a small room it's annoying.

Pricing of the NS2 EX 88 in the US is $4,999.99. You'll qualify for free shipping, but depending on where you are you may need to pay sales tax.

If you look at a major EU dealer like Thomann. You'll see the they are asking €3,490 for the NS2 EX 88. VAT already included and free shipping.

This evening 1 Euro is 1.11 US dollars. Which means the price of the NS2 EX 88 in Europe is $3,863.53 US dollars. How or why $1,136.41 US gets added to the price for US customers, I am not sure.

For comparison a Yamaha CP4 in the EU sells for €1,998 or $2,211.85.
In the US the CP4 sells for $2,299.99. $88.14 more.

In the EU, the Kawai MP11 sells for €2,222 or $2,459.82.
In the US it sells for $2799. $340.17 more.

The Korg Kronos sells for €3,999 or $4427.09.
In the US it sells for $3,699.99. $727.10 LESS!

The Yamaha and Kawai products are very close in price regardless of zone. Korg is decently less in the US.

But another odd one is the Kurzweil Forte which sells at Thomann for €2,399 or $2655.76.
In the US, the Forte sells for $3995.00. What the heck? $1,339.24 more in the US?

There appears to be a "what the market will bear" factor here as opposed to conversion rates or tariffs or trade agreements.

A bit like the Bright Grand, but after short tryout I feel like it works better together with the NP1 action. I like it, sounds jazzy to me Also if you missed it, there are 2 new DX7 samples availble.