Farfisa Marador M

[Bobro]

Farfisa Matador M, got a chance to pick one in great condition up for about 30 dollars...watcha think?

[Bobro]

That's Matador, not Marador, sorry.

 

Should have bought it- lost my wallet the next day. It was found, with all the fun-money cash stolen of course. Anyway I was too happy to have my passport back to give a shit.

 

The Matador has some kind of Gliss/Pitch Bend function, would have been cool. Picked up the LPs of Secret Life of Plants and Lamb Lies Down on Broadway at the same swapmeet though- 12$ for both in perfect condition, can't complain.

 

-Bobro

[whitefang]

Do they still make Farfisa's? Gad, 30 some years ago, a lot of bands were using them (no famous ones I know of, just local garage types.).

Cheezy sounding muthas, they were! Any oldster's

recall?

 

Whitefang

[marino]

I remember the Matador from the '70s. It's impossibly cheesy, and the glide thing it's only good for police sirens effects (well, I guess they intended it for slide guitar-type sounds, but it's just laughable).

Unless you are heavily into the retro-lounge movement, or maybe retro furniture , you haven't missed anything special IMO!!

[Bobro]

Originally posted by marino:

I remember the Matador from the '70s. It's impossibly cheesy, and the glide thing it's only good for police sirens effects (well, I guess they intended it for slide guitar-type sounds, but it's just laughable).

Unless you are heavily into the retro-lounge movement, or maybe retro furniture , you haven't missed anything special IMO!!

Not into retro-lounge, but I'm very happy about the trend- it's great to hear some young hipster actually playing a keyboard. Heard a young guy playing in that style recently, using a Kurzweil, pretty darn good. The organ would be for just such musicians coming to the studio- but it didn't have the "buy me now!" vibe so that's that.

[Byrdman]

Originally posted by Bobro:

Originally posted by marino:

[qb]I remember the Matador from the '70s. It's impossibly cheesy, and the glide thing it's only good for police sirens effects (well, I guess they intended it for slide guitar-type sounds, but it's just laughable).

Unless you are heavily into the retro-lounge movement, or maybe retro furniture , you haven't missed anything special IMO!

Which Farfisa did the B52's use? That real cheesy sound is quite hard to reproduce. I have never managed to achieve exactly the right menace of dayglo with anything I own.

[Superbobus]

Hope it's not too OT but I got a chance to play on a Philicordia the other day. It was in mint condition and sounded damn cheezy. Is that some type of a Farfisa too?