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Thank you for this!

Now THAT is smart!

Yep, the offset is where the magic is. I still have a couple of these, but I think I might sell one. I also have a third-tier attachment but could never figure out how to use it. Another shortcoming (for me) is that there is too much up/down wobbling when using the Invisible Stand in standing position. I'm 6'2" so it might would only get worse for taller people than me.

Is that an adaptation? Tony is playing the ARP 2600 there, so at most he has 2 notes of polyphony (duophony). This wouldn't be a direct transcription, then. Edited to add: I just did a quick Google and found this video - perhaps this sheds light on the subject. Some nice synth programming in it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTW5ZS9gHkk

Truly a one-of-a-kind icon. Was there ever anyone else more involved as a technician and player of the Mellotron? RIP, Mr. Pinder.

For the majority of my local gigs, I still get away with my Nord Stage 2 EX Compact. Pedal board under my feet, L to R: Ventilator extension pedal, FC-7 expression pedal plugged into Nord expression input and used for organ and volume morphing, sustain pedal. Nord outputs 1 (and 2 if stereo) into Key Largo input 1 that sits on another pedal board either to left or right of keyboard stand depending on stage location/room. Organ section routed mostly to output 3 which then goes into a Holy Grail Nano reverb, Lounsberry Tall & Fat, finally Neo Ventilator (all on the second pedal board). Output of Vent whether mono or stereo to input 2 of KL. I also use a NS3 Compact for gigs where there is more of a set list (Song Mode very useful!) and it is wired in the same way. I augment either NS2 or NS3 rig with a Korg Kronos 2 for when I need the additional fire power, like the Paul McCartney tribute and David Bowie tributes I am involved in. That also gets routed to the Key Largo. Some gigs I play acoustic or electric guitar - output of acoustic works just fine through the KL. For electric guitar I built a small pedal board with a tuner, a multi-effects and a Joyo AC guitar amp pedal. I don't play lead, just rhythm on a few songs here and there so I don't feel like my tone is so important that I need to bring a separate amp. The beautiy is that it too goes right into the Key Largo, so I am in control of my mix and can send just a L/R to FOH. A little trick you can do with the Key Largo if you need more than the 3 inputs is to use the effects loop as a separate input. I've done this when I'm using the Nord into inputs 1 and 2 (organ), Kronos in 3 and guitar in effects loop. I don't use outboard effects for these gigs, so no problem. KL Largo monitor out to usually just one QSC monitor that sits by my side. Lately I've been doing more in-ears, and the little Behringer wired pack I use takes two inputs, so I take a feed from the KL monitor out and another from FOH. Yeah, it's keys on one side and FOH mix on the other, so not the greatest but works in a pinch. If I trust the FOH, I'll just get a stereo feed directly from them.

This is great! Thanks for sharing, everyone!

I don't get this deep into equipment repair, but I appreciate you guys sharing it - very interesting reading! Really wish I had the knowledge you guys have, but thankfully I know a bunch of techs who are willing to do the work. My ARP Pro-Soloist has recently been restored to full functionality - what an awesome synth! Just yesterday I dropped off my old String Ensemble to a tech friend to get the power supply rebuilt. Also seems like one of the 3 delay lines to the ensemble effect stopped working. Next, I have a headcase of a white-face Odyssey that a previous tech could not bring back to life. I had brought it to him years ago and he just followed problems around the circuit board. To complicate matters, I also purchased an aftertouch kit from the now-defunct New England Analog which was installed, but I can't verify that it will ever work because of the state of this Odyssey. Ugh, old synthesizers....

Awesome, thanks for sharing!

This was my solution for my very small second bedroom (link below). I bought two sets of wall stands and three sets of tier arms for each. Here's one stack of three with a K&M Omega stand holding up the ARP String Ensemble (which is there to demo against the Behringer String Solina I just got yesterday - so far so good!). Also bought a couple of Standtastic trays hold the shorter keyboards. I will take these stands to wherever I live - they are an excellent solution! https://lm-products.myshopify.com/collections/standtastic-keyboard-stands

Yeah, I have an original Signature Edition and the aftertouch is barely usable. I sent it back to Moog about 4-5 years ago when they offered all the mods including slew-rate, but the aftertouch is still crap.

If I read the staff right, I hear it as an F#7#9/C#, ie. an F#7#9 in second inversion

I have a pedalboard that serves two purposes: it holds my Radial Key Largo mixer and a power strip, and the three pedals below it are for organ. I primarily gig with a Nord Stage, and it is configured (most of the time) for organ to go out of output 3. This goes into an EH Holy Grail Nano reverb pedal then into a Lounsberry Tall & Fat then finally into a Neo Ventilator 2. Outputs of the Ventilator either mono or stereo to input 2 on the Key Largo. I also have a smaller pedal board under my feet that holds (L to R) a remote for the Ventilator (stop/slow/fast), an expression pedal and a sustain pedal. Never considered whether the reverb should go before or after the Tall & Fat. Wouldn't the reverb on an A-100 go before the preamp?

Check out this oddity - Tom Scholz' Franken-Hammond. Two full-sized, staggered keybeds, the wheel on the upper-left cheek block I'm assuming affects the tone generator speed as it's his pitch-bend wheel. No doubt there are a bunch of you who can tell me if that's the case. I know he did the pitch-bends on the the first album by slowing the tape machine while he was tracking. Anyway, this thing looks like a giant headache!

Me three on the keybed. First thing I noticed. The synth is built so well, and the keybed feels chintzy in comparison.