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#122234 - 11/20/06 05:56 AM Then and now...
Bill in Dayton Offline
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Registered: 08/23/04
Posts: 2202
Loc: Dayton, OH USA
My first keyboard (circa 1983):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=115OBqCguEY&NR

I combined that with an old Fender Rhodes suitcase and a black keyed Farfisa double manual organ.

Obviously, things have changed in 23 years...I remember (and so does my back)how heavy the Fender was...

My new T2 is supposed to arrive tomorrow...pretty amazing advances since when I first started playing...



Bill
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#122235 - 11/20/06 06:06 AM Re: Then and now...
DonM Offline
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Registered: 06/25/99
Posts: 16735
Loc: Benton, LA, USA
"The times they are a'changin'". Bob Dylan?
You will love the T2, but it's fun to look back now and then.
DonM
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#122236 - 11/20/06 06:54 AM Re: Then and now...
Dnj Offline
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Registered: 09/21/00
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Good luck with the new T2 ....
I hope you like it.....please post some songs once you get adjusted to it.....

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#122237 - 11/20/06 07:33 AM Re: Then and now...
abacus Offline
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Registered: 07/21/05
Posts: 5348
Loc: English Riviera, UK
Cool I love looking back once in a while.
Here is a manufactures demo of my first instrument, (Taken off a 45rpm vinyl disc) which was a Wersi Alpha Organ that I built myself in 1985.
As the Arranger Keyboard developed from the Electronic Organ, I thought the demo would be quite interesting.
Enjoy

Bill
http://rapidshare.com/files/4139994/Wersi_Alpha.MP3.html


[This message has been edited by abacus (edited 11-20-2006).]
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#122238 - 11/20/06 08:20 AM Re: Then and now...
Dnj Offline
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#122239 - 11/20/06 11:47 AM Re: Then and now...
George V Offline
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Registered: 01/09/05
Posts: 331
Loc: Sofia
Donny,

That's a great link! Thanks for sharing

George

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#122240 - 11/20/06 11:49 AM Re: Then and now...
Dnj Offline
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Registered: 09/21/00
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George...I have a tear in my eye looking at some of those vintage KB's....such memories for sure ....enjoy!!!

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#122241 - 11/20/06 02:05 PM Re: Then and now...
freddynl Offline
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Registered: 11/17/99
Posts: 1150
Loc: netherlands
This was my first keyboard.
Funny enough, since we are doing some old Doors songs, I need the sound of this one.
I found some on the Roland keys card, but those come not really close.
http://www.hollowsun.com/vintage/vox_conti/index.html
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#122242 - 11/20/06 02:37 PM Re: Then and now...
Dnj Offline
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Registered: 09/21/00
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Freddy....
in 1966 when I saw "Question Mark & the Mysterians" use one on " 96 Tears" as a kid I knew I had to have a Vox Continental KB ....& when I saw The Beatles use
Vox amps I had to have one also....man I miss that Era!!!

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