SD1... first and only.

Ra800 with DX7II as a controller, then another Roland kind of like RA with shoter octave keyboard, then Solton MS5, Korg I3, MS100, X1, now SD1 and Tyros

I think the first 'keyboard' I played was Technics K series (before the AX series), but I'm not sure if that classifies as 'arranger' though.

So I guess AX-5 would be my first arranger then.

EARLY PSR, I thing PSR60, then 70, then 6100, then all through the various models. I hardly missed any through Tyros. Also Technics KN800, 1000, 2000, 5000. Roland G800. I've probably averaged one a year since they started making them.
DonM

i had a 49small keys casio at the begining. (1990) after that a kawai fs630.
after that... curently korg pa50.

i kept the low costs, as you can see!

My very first keyboard, GEM WX2 (mid eighties?) but returned it as soon as I found out it was filled with lots of bugs... My real adventure started with Technics KN2000.

KN2000, KN3000, KN5000, Solton X1, Ketron SD1, G70 (bad choice), PA1X, PA1Xpro (just not my 'type'), Tyros1 (great).... and waiting for my Tyros2 (Probably the best)

1) Roland E 20
2) Roland PRO E
3) Roland G 800
4) Roland VA7 (I guess I was a Roland guy.... ), then
5) Ketron SD1 and
6) Yamaha 9000 pro (together with the VA7); later added a
7) Ketron XD3... finally sold everything and bought a
8) Tyros.

Future: Tyros 2 and (likely) Roland G-70 (if OS 2.0 holds its promises...)
(Owning two arrangers is better than owning just one Three? Don't know: it gets complicated to pick one to play)

Interesting post this.

My first arranger was the top part of an early Clavinova - Can't remember the model but it had SIXTEEN different rythmns each with one fill and EIGHT different voices (only one at a time though) lol.

It was really heavy but there was nothing else out there with anything approaching a professional sound and I had developed positional arthritis in my shoulder as I was then playing out with a Hammond X5 with a Wurly EP200 and a Korg Delta Synth stacked on top in a residency and holding my right arm out in front of me 6 nights a week a lot of the time simply wore my shoulder joint away!

My doctor advised me to change my equipment which so I got the clavinova. This instrument also had a new feature called MIDI!!! so when a couple of years later when the (incredible) Korg M1 first came out I got me one and hooked it up. Not a bad sound for those days although I missed the Hammond sound (Mind you the X5 wasn't tonewheel so I suppose I got gradually weened off)

Those were the days eh boys - Backstrain, Hernias, Pulled Muscles and some people now complain about keyboards weighing over 25lbs.

Good Topic Dnj

Regards - Keith