Key History

[Dr Teeth]

Could you write some history of your keyboards you have had like the mine:

 

Casio CTC 636: I liked kust two sound of it. I had to sell my bike when i was 11 to buy it. I will buy it back to the guy i sold it.

 

YAMAHA PSR 500: It was like a airport landing track... Lights in every where. Good piano for salsa, many auto loops. Nice board...

 

YamaHA PASR 600: The only reason that i had to change was that the 600 offer the DX7 E piano that is the sound that my favorite producer(tom brooks) use every time. I disapointed me, because the sound was not even close.

 

Korg 01/W: What could I say... wonderful

[coyote]

OK, here ya go (in chron order):

 

Baldwin (or was it Kimball?) spinet organ inherited from Mom. It sounded awful. She had traded in a Thomas ColorGlo spinet to get it. Too bad - the Thomas hadn't sounded half-bad. I put the spinet out on the curb one day; three days passed before someone finally took it.

 

(eight years pass - segue to 1998)

 

Casio WK1500. This is the beginning of my study of keys. Its sounds were OK for starting out, and I knew it would eventually become a useful 76 key controller.

 

Hammond CV. Got it for a hundred bucks w/ tone cab! I fixed the scanner and had a real Hammond. BTW, this one had balls galore. Gave it to a friend when he helped me pick up my next acquisition....

 

Hammond A-100. Full console w/ percussion. My main board. Run thru a Pro3T/200w-Marshall/4x12. Need I say more? http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/smile.gif

 

Roland JP8000. I'd gotten a Nanopiano and was halfheartedly looking for a weighted controller/piano, and stumbled across this little gem. The JP's interface was great and it sounded terrific and was on sale. Went back & bought it the next day. Wonderful performance synth.

 

Rhodes MK80. My most recent board; it has a good Rhodes emulation (as well as GP, Clav, & vibes), built-in tremolo & phasing, easy controls, solid weighted action. And it was a great bargain.

[b_3guy]

I was going to head out but this looked like too much fun. Ready, it's going to be a long list.

 

1969 bought a used Acetone - $300. I can't remember what happened to it.

1971 bought a Lowery 2 manual organ with a Leslie 147.

1974 - I was playing full time. I sold Lowery & bought a new B-3. My dad co-signed the loan for $4,200.00 Can. Then I bought a used RMI piano (Rick Wakeman used one).

1976 sold the RMI & bought a Rhodes 73. The Rhodes was ugly to play, I thought it was me but in hindsite I sure it was the Rhodes. Traded in the Rhodes within months on a Wulitzer 200. Then bought a Roland SH-3 analog Mono Synth.

1978 traded the B-3 & Leslie for a Chroma?? (I can't remember the exact name Hammond imitator. I guess if I can't remember the name it probably sucked)

1982 Gave away the Wulitzer (It was beat) Traded in the Chroma in on a DX-7. That was stolen from a club but I had insurance to buy another.

1987 bought a Korg CX-3 from a kid who had it in his bedroom for $260 Can. He had paid $2200 for it 1984. Nobody wanted it.

1990 traded the DX-7 in a used Roland 250S piano.

1993 bought a used Kawai K-4. And bought one of the new Leslie 302's.

1994 traded the CX-3 in a Hammond XB-2. Got a credit of $800US. That's worth about $1200Can. I actually made money on that one.

1995 bought a NanoPiano. Bought the B-3 I have now for $800Can. That's about $400US.

1997 sold the Roland 250S & the NanoPiano bought Alesis QS-8.

1998 gave away the K-4 to my wife's nephew. He sure need a break. He was moving from Ottawa to Edmonton in his last year of high school. He was leaving all his friends behind.

1999 traded the XB-2 in on Hammond XK-2. Traded my Leslie 302 for an old Leslie 145.

2000 sold my Roland SH-3 & bought Korg MS2000.

I don't think I forgot anything.

Oops another Wulitzer, little marked up but everything works & it's in tune $200Can.

I don't regret buying anything or regret selling anything. I think the B-3 I have now is actually a better B than the new one I got in 1974. I had a shot to buy a beautiful playing Rhodes 73 last year for $750. But I was concerned about how heavy it was to move around. But now that I'm recording some of my own tunes I wish that I had bought it.

 

 

This message has been edited by b_3guy on 08-09-2001 at 11:43 AM

[Rod S]

1980 sometime - Casio VL Tone (calculator turned keyboard; laugh it up) - had just moved to Spain with my family. Was hating it. Kept busy figuring out simple melodies and writing it down in paper with numbers (yep, I had no idea with a c sharp or a b flat is)

1983 Some Casio keyboard my parents bought - Played around with it, started learning the basics of theory.

1985 1st synth poly 800 - was playing in bands at the time - bought used from this kid who's dad was on business on in brazil for 3 yrs.

1987 Family trip to Europe, we smuggle a korg ds-8 pass customs on the way back http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

1990 Sold my DS-8, for the SAME PRICE I bought it in England. Puts some prespective in the synth situation in Brazil at the time. Went to college, no synth playing for most of it.

1994 Bought a used K1 pretty cheap.. crappy sound but it got me playing again. For 3 months. Started grad school shortly after, and had no life for about 15 months.

1995 Decide to go shopping for a 'budget' synth. Bought my qs6. Also bought a used microverb 2 to run the K1 through, and realized that thing didn't sound that bad after all.

1997 Buy a kurz micropiano to get a 'good' piano sound.

1999 Kurz PC88mx - just got dumped by my wife and depressed. Decide to get serious about music again, and decide to get an expensive 88 weighted key synth/controller. Realized I didn't have to tell anyone where I was blowing $1500 http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/biggrin.gif . Sold the micropiano.

2000 ESI-32 bought it from a friend - big mistake - didn't do enough research. I didn't realize how much money you end up spending with sample libraries, cd roms, external storage, upgrades etc. Never used it to the fullest potential. Haven't sold it since it's not worth crap after the esi2000 and 4000 were released. More of a toy and for experimentation. Loading sounds from floopies gets to annoying if I'm actually working on an idea.

2000 Decide to get a 'fresher' sounding synth. Liked the cs6x, cs6r comes out and I decide to get that. Sam Ash has a special sale and I realized I can get the x for only $50 more than r. Big mistake, since I still hate the keybed

2001 K2000r A friend of mine has one he doesn't use. Fairly new, latest OS, etc. Realize the potential of the instrument.

[sbrock1san.rr.com]

Roland D50- I had already owned a Moog Source and an Oberheim Matrix-6, but when I heard this thing I flipped out. It was complex and it had attack transients that my other synths didn't. It had software available that helped me create sounds that went way past the presets....especially a program called D50-Command. I still love the synth and will play it for a long time. It's indestructable and I've never even had to change the battery or do any maintenance on it. I have woodwind sounds on it that are priceless and more alive than any sampler.