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stewart · Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 7:58 pm Post subject: what keyboards youse got?

i was actually thinking about posting this before the 'what's jcyphe got?' thread, but now seems like a good time to follow that up. i know this is a guitar forum first and foremost, but i'm interested in what everyone has in addition to stringed instruments.

i was a keyboard player for years before taking up the guitar, and spent a lot of my teenage years (and most of my student loans) buying them. when i started the technology wasn't anywhere near as good as it is today, i mean, if you wanted a decent hammond, rhodes or wurlitzer sound you really had to buy the originals, whereas now i couldn't tell you the difference between the real thing and a nord electro (through a PA with my eyes shut, anyway).

here's my collection (not actual photos, they're all in hibernation at the moment)

1980 rhodes stage 73 mark II:

early 60s vox continental:

roland juno 106:

60s philips philicorda:

60s hammond L00 and leslie (can't remember the leslie model, 122 maybe):

plus a MIDI controller keyboard and a couple of modules. if i ever buy another keyboard it'd probably be a second synth, but something small-ish.

what key machines hide in shortscalers' metaphorical closets?
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DanHeron · . Joined: 24 May 2008 Posts: 3483 Location: Manchester, UK

Alesis Micron + KP3 (i know the kp3 isnt a keyboard, but they are kind of joined at the hip).

Also have a normal upright piano in the house, its not mine though. Just a family piano thing, its nice though.

Johno · . Joined: 20 Apr 2006 Posts: 1888 Location: East London

I had one of them Vox continentals, bought it off some old hippy muso in Falmouth Cornwall who said it belonged to the guy from the Specials. I sold it on to some Vox keyboard collector as i soon lost patience with learing the keyboard.

laterallateral · Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 8:19 pm Post subject:

Korg MS-20
Ours is holding together with duct tape.

Alesis Fusion

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jcyphe · . Joined: 20 Apr 2006 Posts: 16476

This thread is gonna be awesome.

I presently don't have any Keyboards or Synths. Growing up I always had Casio Keyboards and my aunt had one of those home organs with a spinning speaker. It was not a Hammond, I think it was a Wurlitzer.

I love the cheesy sound of the Philicorda, you got some great stuff Stewart.
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stewart · Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 8:52 pm Post subject:

Nick · Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:06 pm Post subject:

NickS · Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:37 pm Post subject:

*Edited because of September update.*

Doog · Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 11:21 pm Post subject:

(My dad's, technically)

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Progrockabuse · . Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Posts: 4643 Location: Derbyshire

I haven't got any photos up yet, but will get a few tomorrow.

i have a moog prodigy that i got cheap a few years ago, has that mini moog sound, good for bass too.

Hammond L122 with matching leslie, mainly as my forum name gives away, i love 70's progressive rock.

Viscount B3 clone. it's digital and only one manual, but sounds pretty good.

i also have a very battered and half working mellotron M400
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Mike · Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 11:58 pm Post subject:

Doog · Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 11:59 pm Post subject:

Oddly enough, I know for a fact that the Brothers Chap use one of them (or something very similar)- every now and then I hear noises from my childhood within Homestar toons. Most awesome.
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stewart · Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 1:16 am Post subject:

Mages · Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 1:48 am Post subject:

I have a Casio VL-1 since I was a little kid:

it's a monophonic analog synth. it has a sequencer and an ADSR mode to program your own tones.

I also have a Casio CT-310 that I found in the trash. I can't find a picture of it right now.... will edit when I do
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Reece · . Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Posts: 10347 Location: Kent, UK

Reece · . Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Posts: 10347 Location: Kent, UK

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More Cowbell · . Joined: 20 Apr 2006 Posts: 6206 Location: Jefferson, GA

I have a Radio Shack version of a Casio Keyboard WK-133 or something like that I got from NICK. I use it midi to trigger samples in protools via sampletank and reason.

And this old Baldwin Organ with rotating speaker from a neighbor for FREE.

MutantParty · . Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Posts: 235 Location: Detroit

got microkorg, and moog source. right now (like a lot of you) i'm pining for a little phatty.

also have ye olde stylophone!