Eight Years 2012 to 2019 of The Rick & Dorothy Piano-Keyboard HourStarted Like This

Golden Buddha Restaurant gig lasted from 2007 through 2012 and it's abrupt and unexpected close in late 2012 led to a series of experiments for an act that could keep us going. I had the "vision" of a keyboard-orchestra ensemble for one of us with the other on the tradtional 88 key piano as a basic set up. And guess what? It worked! More or less as we adapted to various situations. Arizona being a home to many many many retirement residences, I had the vision of playing for them, like we already had done with Fletcher Music in 1996 at Tucson Mall, then moving to Phoenix to continue at  Arrowhead Mall, then as managers of the Metro Center Fletcher Music. The "outreach" concerts to sell organs for Fletcher at retirement communities was the basis for my idea that we could do concerts even without selling organs... and that was the solution. We hit the circuit during the period 2013 to 2019, from my age 56, her 78 through to my 62, her 84. I was able video/audio document bits and pieces here and there with my Canon ZR40 and MacG4 and G5 imovie. Then Canon ZR40 had a stereo mic and excellent pickup and by this time, in 2013, we had gotten a 400 watt amp for the instruments and a set of mics with a pitch corrector for vocals. Here is a sample of our work.
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