The Wolfgang TELEMONITOR

[OlRedNeckHippy]

The Wolfgang TELEMONITOR

I just discovered these. Wow. A singers dream. I want one.
A pipe dream at $1200, but dreams can come true.

Anybody using one? Or even seen one in person?

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It has a "mini" keyboard, 3 usb ports, 60g HD, 1g ram, and runs on Windows XP!

I spotted it in the Hyde Park show with Springstein and McCartney on Paladia. One cab held a monitor speaker and the prompter. So Fine!

 

[String Tree]

Yes, but how does it sound with a Tele plugged-in to it?

 

[soulman969]

When the price comes down to $200 call me. I'll keep using my cue cards until then.

 

[JCSouthpawtele]

I know a few musicians who could use this. I am tired of notebooks and three ring binders being duct taped to my monitors.

 

[muudcat]

My eyes are getting so bad I don't know if I could read that, but it does look nice, way out of my price range too.

 

[OlRedNeckHippy]

I know a few musicians who could use this. I am tired of notebooks and three ring binders being duct taped to my monitors.

Yup. Me!
Music stands, time between songs flipping pages, etc.
Like I said, a singers dream come true.

 

[hawkpicker]

$1200! Yikes! I get by pretty well by just using my ipad mounted on a mic stand. It's about a $500 dollar setup but it also plays movies, music, has internet, email, and so much more! I don't think most people notice and if they do it at least looks a lot less amateurish than a music stand. The best app I've found has been OnSong (it's the only one I've found that will autoscroll based on how long the song is).

 

[robt57]

I know a few musicians who could use this. I am tired of notebooks and three ring binders being duct taped to my monitors.

Now you can instead get tired of OS blue screening, failing laptop batteries and hinges and having your laptop getting stolen.

Now if for 1200 you could blue-tooth to it from your smart phone..

 

[Don Miller]

We just did a two-fer this weekend..friday and saturday night...with a keyboard player who played with us 4 times before the gigs...last night when the crowd got thin we pulled out some stuff that we hadnt played for months, and which the keyboard guy had never played.....and it brought home the value of communication among the players, and memory..knowing the stuff rather that reading it off a notebook or some electronic screen.......

We used to have a guuitar player who was married to his ring binder...and if there was any variance from what he had in the notebook, which there inevitabley would be during a live gig, he'd flip out...he'd get lost and wouldnt or couldnt follow where the tune was going...and it got frustrating for the rest of us and led to too much clam chowder...was into reading rather than listening, perhaps..

Sure, a lyric gets blown now and then, and Im not above writing out a line or verse Im prone to forget...but $1200 is an awful lot of dough...and I would imagine there is an investment of time in entering and updating the info...which might be better spent memorizing the tune and following the changes...

Of course if one of those gizmos were to show up on my front porch I'd probably decide it was the best thing since sliced bread...

 

[JCSouthpawtele]

Now you can instead get tired of OS blue screening, failing laptop batteries and hinges and having your laptop getting stolen.

Now if for 1200 you could blue-tooth to it from your smart phone..

I've already seen a home made wedge like this. The touring country artist who shall remain nameless showed up with his own monitor wedges and one dummy wedge. The dummy wedge had a Plexiglas panel in place of the grill,no baffle and a large flat computer screen in it. The small computer was mounted inside behind the screen. His mouse was mounted on is pedalboard in front of the dummy wedge. Clicking it with his foot every song. Every song was a PowerPoint presentation. It also contained the "extra" track music for the band. Keys and a doubled fiddle track on some songs.