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#293608 - 09/18/10 02:22 PM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
ianmcnll Offline
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Registered: 07/27/05
Posts: 10606
Loc: Cape Breton Island, Canada
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Originally posted by captain Russ:


Still have it and a later black-cased one.
Changing broken reeds was a bitch!
Russ


I had a 200 Model...changing reeds was a bitch...so was tuning the darn thing.

A lot of fun to play, nonetheless, Russ, and a very expressive instrument, even today.

Ian
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#293609 - 09/18/10 02:33 PM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
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Completely agree... to be honest, I am MUCH happier with some of my Rhodes sample sets than anything that tries to do a good Wurli...

My current fave is the Nord, but even that is a distant second to the real thing. Sure don't miss soldering, though!
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#293610 - 09/18/10 05:47 PM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
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Registered: 01/24/10
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Loc: Ridgecrest, California, USA
The old Wurlitzer electrics were great to play and hear, but fragile and challenging to repair. I always took a bass guitar to the gigs, cause you never knew if the Wurlie would make it.

I'm in the process of restoring a 1956 Model 120, but the reeds are almost $20 each, and getting harder to find.

Duane O
Sacramento
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#293611 - 09/18/10 06:23 PM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
rattley Offline
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Registered: 11/14/99
Posts: 834
Loc: Punta Gorda Florida USA
My first was a Magnus chord organ.

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#293612 - 09/18/10 07:13 PM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
leeboy Offline
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Registered: 10/09/04
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Loc: Ocala, FL USA
A Wurlizer spinet organ my Dad bought in 1962. 1 octive of pedals
He got 12 free lessons with it...I took 6 and he took 6. The first important music I learned to play was the theme to 'Exodus'.

The first instrument I bought myself was a Conn Prelude organ..Circa 1969. I think it was about $700.

Lee S.
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#293613 - 09/18/10 08:36 PM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
Tony Hughes Offline
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Registered: 01/30/06
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Quote:
Originally posted by leeboy:
A Wurlizer spinet organ my Dad bought in 1962. 1 octive of pedals
He got 12 free lessons with it...I took 6 and he took 6. The first important music I learned to play was the theme to 'Exodus'.

The first instrument I bought myself was a Conn Prelude organ..Circa 1969. I think it was about $700.

Lee S.


Me too a Lowery Holiday 1st and then the Conn Prelude, when you turned the Lowery on you could hear a radio channel in the background.
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#293614 - 09/19/10 01:42 AM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
rikkisbears Offline
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Registered: 12/22/02
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Loc: NSW,Australia
Hi,
my first keyboard ever was a Chord Organ, can't remember the brand. Would have been in the mid 60's.


best wishes
Rikki
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#293615 - 09/19/10 03:18 AM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
abacus Offline
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Registered: 07/21/05
Posts: 5347
Loc: English Riviera, UK
My first keyboard I actually owed, (Although I had played my parents various organs) was a Wersi Alpha, which I also built myself, and I still have fond memories of it. (As I was an electrical engineer, it was built properly, so reliability was not an issue)

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#293616 - 09/19/10 03:58 AM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
mrdave Offline
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Registered: 11/02/07
Posts: 90
Loc: Rimini, Italy
First instrument I played was my father's EKO Chorale organ when I was around six.



Then my father changed many organs until the latest one I still have in my lounge, a Farfisa Pergamon


(in Italy, today organ market is completely dead).

The first keyboard I owned and bought myself was the Roland G-800, a great instrument.


[This message has been edited by mrdave (edited 09-19-2010).]

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#293617 - 09/19/10 04:25 AM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
Songman55 Offline
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Registered: 06/24/05
Posts: 892
Loc: Baltimore, MD USA
We had a Hammond M2 organ and an old clunker piano at home. The first board I bought was a Farfisa organ.

Joe

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