Actually, some of us ancient "pickers and grinners" started off our "single" acts playing something like arrangers. They were called Auto Orchestras. There was a controller and a set of 13 bass pedals. You held the root note with your left foot and activated minors, 7ths, etc with your heel. the controller was the equivalent of the brains of an arranger, with different drum, solo and other options, like drum breaks, endings etc.

I think it was a Solton product, which is the predecessor of the Ketron line.Mine still works, and you can re-create the unit combining a Ketron "brain" and bass pedals.

Put myself thru graduate school with one of these little deals.

"A blast from the past...".


R.