The Real MC Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 Ya know? That Tuck and Roll look just never goes out of style... Until you try to carry this Big Daddy. I saw one of these in a vintage guitar store in Seattle last year. It wasn't assembled so I couldn't play it. http://www.instappraisal.com/sites/instappraisal/files/appraisal_images/britt%20016.JPG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Threadslayer Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 Wow, a Rheem combo organ...rare beast for sure.....Rheem also made water heaters back in the day! Indeed. I had one in High School. http://www.combo-organ.com/Rheem/index.htm I thought I was pretty cool playing "The House of the Rising Sun" on it too. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthoid Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 I remember back when I was about 10, a friend of mine had one of these. We thought it was cool. Ummmm... that's because you were 10! Yes indeed! I saw this larger Magnus organ a couple months ago in a thrift shop. Brought back memories. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v393/Cagriortan/Magnus_Electric_Chord_Organ.jpg When an eel hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's a Moray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
area51recording Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 That Kustom thing is SO badass!! It would be AWESOME to have that and the blue tuck-n-roll amp to play it thru.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hurricane hugo Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 My first: http://www.vintagesynth.com/casio/casio_cz101_angle2.jpg Played it until it literally fell to pieces. I'd love to have another one (real or virtual) someday. Super easy to come up with great sounds on it. http://blip.fm/invite/WorkRelease Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockinredeye Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 Isn't that a Hammond Novachord? Saw one in a video once. What a fantastic instrument. Early synth sounding and full of tubes. Lots of fun. Kurzweil PC4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveCoscia Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 Yes, my parents bought the Magnus organ at Sears in the late 1960s. I used to play "96 Tears" over and over. I remember back when I was about 10, a friend of mine had one of these. We thought it was cool. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-t37QJkgP08/SjERNX3iqaI/AAAAAAAAAIA/meokxRIhaCA/s400/2635069744_b972954a44.jpg Steve Coscia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoken6 Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 OK I'll bite. My first electronic keyboard. Casio VL-1: http://www.deepsonic.ch/deep/pix/casio%20vl1.jpg Cheers, Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoodyBluesKeys Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 First keyboard - Baldwin model 5 Church Organ, with two 15" speakers and 40w amp added internally, and Baldwin Leslie (single speed). All of this was located in a single-wide mobile home (did I mention I was single at the time). Baldwin model 5 Baldwin 5 Tube Generator Baldwin Leslie (All three pictures are stock photos - I don't have pictures of the actual instrument which I rebuilt and modified. All capacitors in the generator were replaced, and resistors adjusted to make the analog dividers work properly). No, I did not move it and gig with it - but I did move all of it from New Bern to Elizabeth City with a diesel Datsun pickup hauling a trailer - couldn't pull the trailer any higher than third gear out of five, so it was a slow move. Howard Grand|Hamm SK1-73|Kurz PC2|PC2X|PC3|PC3X|PC361; QSC K10's HP DAW|Epi Les Paul & LP 5-str bass|iPad mini2 "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthoid Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 I've mentioned this before, but I learned to play keyboards on a Baldwin spinet organ. Took lessons for several years and suffered through a few recitals as well. Don't have an actual photo, but this web pic is pretty close. http://images1.americanlisted.com/nlarge/baldwin_spinet_organ_300_mobile_20655789.jpg When an eel hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's a Moray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resigned Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 I've mentioned this before, but I learned to play keyboards on a Baldwin spinet organ. Took lessons for several years and suffered through a few recitals as well. Don't have an actual photo, but this web pic is pretty close. http://images1.americanlisted.com/nlarge/baldwin_spinet_organ_300_mobile_20655789.jpg Oh no... I took lessons on one of those too. This whole thread is starting to look like my childhood on parade... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theo Verelst Posted September 26, 2013 Author Share Posted September 26, 2013 The subject of music being played for me was mainly a high school story, not so much childhood. I learned reading score for recorder as a kid, and some stuff, but keyboard playing I didn't do yet, and probably there weren't that many keyboards around until the end of the 70s. At some time when I did amplification for the band of my high school, I think the keyboards-guy played this: [video:youtube] a Roland EP-10. I thought it sounded cool, and was aware of the complexity involved to get such a sound. I've wondered if this kind of sound could be heard in late 60s reggae music. I would teach myself stuff on the school grand piano, until I made myself a master-generator based keyboard (I was quite an electronics connoisseur, but I didn't have the money and the time to built a lot more then), and the Casio I mentioned appeared. The "keyboard" I learned most of the serious stuff I also put on stage on was this one: http://medias.audiofanzine.com/images/normal/roland-hp-3000s-384800.jpg A Roland RD300-home version... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthoid Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 Oh no... I took lessons on one of those too. This whole thread is starting to look like my childhood on parade... Well, that Baldwin wasn't very exciting but I'm grateful that my parents "forced" me to take lessons. I doubt I'd be playing keys today if they hadn't. When an eel hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's a Moray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Heslop Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 Ya know? That Tuck and Roll look just never goes out of style... Until you try to carry this Big Daddy. I saw one of these in a vintage guitar store in Seattle last year. It wasn't assembled so I couldn't play it. http://www.instappraisal.com/sites/instappraisal/files/appraisal_images/britt%20016.JPG I had one of these as a teenager, but with white vinyl. Man it was problematic!! I swear it didn't work more than it did. Seriously most of the time I had it only the upper keyboard worked. Then there was the issue of transporting it. I had a prog rock trio in highschool and we entered a school talent show at another school. I will never forget seeing 4 teens I didn't know transporting my space age looking organ and preying they didn't drop it. (I was carrying the base) I had a Maxikorg synth that sat on top. I think we played Hoedown and an original. Stage: Korg Krome 88. Home: Korg Kross 61, Yamaha reface CS, Korg SP250, Korg mono/poly Kawai ep 608, Korg m1, Yamaha KX-5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theo Verelst Posted September 30, 2013 Author Share Posted September 30, 2013 As the teenager I was at the time I would have dug this "first casio ever" keyboard: [video:youtube] Sound wise I'd have preferred it over the interesting Casio in my OP. But maybe it didn't do organ and fundamental sounds as well. Once (decades ago) I almost bought a SixTrack, it sounded marvelous on the studio monitoring I heard it at, but sometimes velocity sensitiveness and 5 octaves are more important, sigh. I'd have loved the prophet-like sound, I don't think there was much like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mauriziodececco Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 I started, at 12 years old, with this one: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Eko_Tiger_Organ.png/800px-Eko_Tiger_Organ.png Later my father got a Farfisa compact Maurizio PS: we lived three kilometers far from the Farfisa factory; now there is a big Ikea shop in place Nord Wave 2, Nord Electro 6D 61,, Rameau upright, Hammond Pro44H Melodica. Too many Arturia, NI and AAS plugins http://www.barbogio.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanV Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 First synth I ever owned I got my freshman year in college (1991). A Roland JX-8P that I paid $400 for including a plywood anvil case. Picked up a PG-800 later on to go crazy with the programming. Out of all the keyboards I've bought and sold over the years, that's the one I miss the most. Nord Stage 2 SW73, Kurzweil PC3LE7, Moog Sub 37, Alesis Ion, Rhodes Stage 73, Moog Werkstatt-01, Yamaha CP-300 ------------- Knock knock Who's there? Interrupting synthesizer Interrup-MOOOOOOOOOG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthoid Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 First synth I ever owned I got my freshman year in college (1991). A Roland JX-8P Out of all the keyboards I've bought and sold over the years, that's the one I miss the most. I had a JX-8P as well. Used it a lot with the first band I was in. The JX-8P replaced my Korg Poly-800... what an upgrade that was. The Poly-800 always sounded kinda thin and wheezy to me. Anyway, I ended up giving the JX-8P to a friend's son back in the 90's. I miss it once in awhile, especially those rich Roland strings and pads... When an eel hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's a Moray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed A. Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 A Paia 2720 was my first synth that I built back in 1974: http://www.johnnypumphandle.com/johnny/Paia/PIC02.JPG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthoid Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 Picture overload... When an eel hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's a Moray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B. J. Love Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 Already had a Rhodes but the Moog Satellite was my first synth. Cuz all those knobs and patch cords scared the hell outta me. Hammond SK1, Casio Privia PX5-S, SpaceStation V.3, Behringer B1200D, 2-EV ZxA1s MacBook Air, Novation ReMOTE 37SL, Logic, Pianoteq 5 Stage, Scarbee Vintage Keys The MIDI Gizmo Museum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewImprov Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Already had a Rhodes but the Moog Satellite was my first synth. Cuz all those knobs and patch cords scared the hell outta me. Mine too! Played that through high school, then upgraded to an ARP Axxe! Turn up the speaker Hop, flop, squawk It's a keeper -Captain Beefheart, Ice Cream for Crow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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