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#293588 - 09/17/10 01:43 PM What was your first keyboard ever.
Irishacts Offline
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Hi all.

We all started with somthing and I was wondering what it was you started with.

This is my first keyboard ever.



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James.

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#293589 - 09/17/10 01:52 PM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
Dnj Offline
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after the Accordion here is one of my very early arranger keyboards ....

KORG Personal SAS 20
http://www.korgpa.com/pa_root/en/extra/korgstory_sas20.html



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#293590 - 09/17/10 02:04 PM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
DannyUK Offline
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I've still got this!

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#293591 - 09/17/10 02:06 PM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
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Sears Silvertone...had it for about three months, and joined a band and bought a Howard Baldwin Combo organ.



Yamaha PS-30 first arranger keyboard...1981 or so.
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#293592 - 09/17/10 02:21 PM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
trident Offline
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This:



I actually had a variant of this, called MC-3A, same hardware

49 mini keys,
8 styles
1 user drum style!!!!!
sliders controlling drum volume and accompaniment volume!!!
crappy sound
lots of fun
ultra portable!!!

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#293593 - 09/17/10 02:32 PM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
bomba6 Offline
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Loc: Israel
Casio MT-820
(had a great time now looking at old photos trying to find that model).

pictures taken from here http://www.crumblenet.co.uk/keyb/mt-820.html
Was a great keyboard. Played it for years!

Next: PSR-210, PSR-630, PSR-3000.

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#293594 - 09/17/10 08:01 PM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
miden Offline
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Giullietti piano accordion.

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#293595 - 09/17/10 08:04 PM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
Duane O Offline
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A used Wurlitzer 140b electronic piano that I purchased in 1965 for $150.



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#293596 - 09/17/10 11:40 PM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
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First portable I had was a Hohner Pianet N. This had a knee-controlled swell lever. Thing was, I'd get so nervous my knee would wobble, and the resulting sound was something akin to an out of control wah pedal.

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#293597 - 09/18/10 02:45 AM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
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Casio CT70

Quite good for it's time, compared with everything else that I could see. I was 12 or so when I got it. I still have it, don't use it anymore, but it still works.

Now I am 34.




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#293598 - 09/18/10 03:16 AM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
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My first ever was casio VL1
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#293599 - 09/18/10 05:28 AM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
Tom Cavanaugh Offline
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Yamaha ps6100, I still have it.
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#293600 - 09/18/10 05:42 AM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
Dnj Offline
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Quote:
Originally posted by Tom Cavanaugh:
Yamaha ps6100, I still have it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huDClImCZQE

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#293601 - 09/18/10 06:00 AM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
mc Offline
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Mine was a Solton MS50
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#293602 - 09/18/10 06:53 AM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
Bill Lewis Offline
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RED Farfisa Compact !!! woooo--so cool in the day. After the no name accordian amp I got with it blew a very short time later my father sprung for a Fender Bassman-- 1966 Blackface!

The hell with the organ I wish I still had that amp HA!


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#293603 - 09/18/10 08:56 AM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
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Yamaha X4500
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#293604 - 09/18/10 09:16 AM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
Tom Cavanaugh Offline
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Bill in NJ,

I used to drive my leslie with a Fender Bassman head. I too wish I still had that amp. It was indestructable.

Tom
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#293605 - 09/18/10 10:21 AM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
Fran Carango Offline
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The first keyboard I owned...
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#293606 - 09/18/10 01:12 PM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
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Hate to say it, but (come to think of it, no, I DON'T hate to say it! ) my first keyboard was an accordion, too (took piano lessons at school, but we didn't have one at home, yet).

First keyboard I got paid gigs on, too (at thirteen)

First electronic keyboard I BOUGHT and played: http://www.combo-organ.com/Vox/Other/Piano5a.jpg

How far we've come!
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#293607 - 09/18/10 02:18 PM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
captain Russ Offline
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A little 1959 Whirlitzer electric...brown. I heard Ray Charles play, What'd I Say" on one and it was all over from there.


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


Russ

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#293608 - 09/18/10 02:22 PM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
ianmcnll Offline
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Quote:
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.
Duane O Offline
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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)

Bill
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#293616 - 09/19/10 03:58 AM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
mrdave Offline
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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.


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#293617 - 09/19/10 04:25 AM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
Songman55 Offline
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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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#293618 - 09/20/10 08:43 AM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
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What a bunch of old klunkers! WEREN'T THEY GREAT?

GREAT MEMORIES!


Russ

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#293619 - 09/21/10 07:50 AM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
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Mine was a double tier KIMBALL ORGAN just don't remember what the model was, and the second keyboard was actually a HAMMOND B-200 with Leslie, WOW! that was big!
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#293620 - 09/21/10 08:06 AM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
Dnj Offline
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Quote:
Originally posted by captain Russ:
What a bunch of old klunkers! WEREN'T THEY GREAT?

GREAT MEMORIES!
Russ


Right you are Russ.....WE are lucky to have lived thru, played & experienced those years.

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#293621 - 09/21/10 08:14 AM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
kla4 Offline
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This is where it all started in 1964


5 octaves, built in wind-effect (synth?) completely independent from energy sources.
Several organs followed, LIPP, GEM, ELKA, Solina, Wersi Alpha 350DX, Hammond L100.

Keyboards : Korg M1, Technics KN2000, KN3000, KN5000, Solton X1, Ketron SD1, G70 (only for 24 hours yikes!), Tyros1, Tyros2, Tyros3.... Tyros4 (in a few weeks)



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#293622 - 09/21/10 09:46 AM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
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upright piano, 1937 lessons out of Etude Classical,
first portable Hoehner Clavinet D3 still in closet
Bebop
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#293623 - 09/21/10 10:39 AM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
vangelis Offline
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Quote:
Originally posted by kla4:
This is where it all started in 1964


5 octaves, built in wind-effect (synth?) completely independent from energy sources.
Several organs followed, LIPP, GEM, ELKA, Solina, Wersi Alpha 350DX, Hammond L100.

Keyboards : Korg M1, Technics KN2000, KN3000, KN5000, Solton X1, Ketron SD1, G70 (only for 24 hours yikes!), Tyros1, Tyros2, Tyros3.... Tyros4 (in a few weeks)

[This message has been edited by kla4 (edited 09-21-2010).]


WOW! it looks like an organ grandpa would play on the MUNSTERS, or maybe Addams Family
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#293624 - 09/21/10 12:58 PM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
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My first keyboard was my dad's accordion; it's still around, at my sister's house. Then I got my own, followed by a Wurlitzer 4100 organ. My first 'to play out' keyboard was a red and black Farfisa Combo Compact. My first arranger was a Korg iX300. Oh, but the keyboards that followed...
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#293625 - 09/21/10 01:11 PM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
Zydecat Offline
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Other than our home piano, a Wurlitzer spinet, the first keyboard I owned was a early model Fender Rhodes piano with a fiberglass case and pedestal that looked like something out of the Jetsons.

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#293626 - 09/21/10 08:43 PM Re: What was your first keyboard ever.
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My first 'to play out' keyboard was a red and black Farfisa Combo Compact. My first arranger was a Korg iX300. Oh, but the keyboards that followed... [/B][/QUOTE]

Cass, I had the same one!

Joe



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