I bought my little bro one of those for Christmas 2009 - great value for around £200
I almost considered getting one myself to use as a rehearsal keyboard, but I think that the action is just a bit too light for me unfortunately.
Anyone got experience of the Nord Electro? I'm considering looking into one, though they're rather pricey.
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A bit of experience - I looked into one before getting my XK3c, and the dep Hammond chap in my band uses one.
His is the 1st version of the Electro. Good sounds, if a little bright. It's limited for Organ due to only having one set of (virtual) drawbars. EP sounds are great. I think it has a clav too? Action is interesting - very light, only semi-weighted, and designed to be a best compromise between organ and piano actions. It has waterfall fronted keys.
I few people on various forums swear by the Electro2 over the newer Electro3 as selecting presets/voices on the go is a little less fiddly.
I'm not sure that the Electro2 has the upgradeable memory of it's newer brother though - with the Electro3, you can download new sounds (Nord just released some newly sampled pianos, for example) and add them in.
All in all, if you're after something as maybe a 2nd keyboard for a gig-rig to take care of occasional lead organ parts, or EP/Clav parts, the Electro is pretty hard to beat - I think it's reasonably industry standard.
Don't get it if you're really after a stage piano though.