Hi everybody,
Only recently I made a statement on the forum
saying that being a keyboard player is a costly business as we are constanly striving for the perfect keyboard, well I wondered how many items I had owned since I turned pro in 19?? you should be able to work it out by the first few instruments I had.
Can anybody beat this
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Hammond M100P Organ+Leslie
Hohner Electronic Piano
Wasp Synth
Fender Rhodes Piano
Solina String Machine
Korg 700S Mono Synth
Hohner Clavinet D6
Wurlitzer 200A Electric Piano
Siel Mono Synth
Cavendish String synth/Vocoder
Roland Juno 6
Korg Poly 6
Korg Poly 61
Yamaha PF10 Piano
Roland Juno 106
Korg DW8000
Yamaha DX7
Yamaha DX100
Ensoniq ESQ1
Ensoniq Mirage Sampler
Ensoniq EPS16+ Sampler
Yamaha EMT 10
Kawai K1m
Akai MX73
Roland U110
Roland Pro E
Roland RA90
Gem WS2
Dr Boss GM Synth Module
Peavey Spectrum Organ Module
Yamaha SY35 Synth
Yamaha PSR730
Yamaha PSR 740
Roland RS5
Yamaha S03 Synth
Yamaha PSR2000
(I'm sure I forgot something)

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Whooowww...what a list. It would have been nice to be rich enough to keep them all and dip into each one as flavour dictated.
You missed off the New Hammond XE1 or XE2 which although I have not got one, I think could be the future of a single keyboard upgradeable to a 2 manual if required. Very small and compact with customized styles and 100 registrations like a top of the range keyboard. Possible other manufactures with be following in this footpath.

Graham UK

That looks like the list of gear I go through in a year!

Hey Graham,
Are you and I the only ones on this forum from the UK!
Would dearly love any one of the Hammond sound-alikes but am thinking of getting the B4 software organ and a laptop, looks like the way to go 'me thinks' (yet another addition to the list if you can call a 'laptop and a CD ROM' a musical instrument.
See ya

I'll to do it chronologically, starting in 1965:
Lowry organ and amp (don't remember the model)
Bigger Lowry organ and leslie 1970
Newer Lowry organ and 2 leslies 1973
Yamaha organ 1979
Great Big Yamaha Organ 1982
PSR70 with DX7 and RX15 drum machine ?1984
PSR6100 ?1985
PSR6300, I think, and Alesis drum machine
and Yamaha V50 and TX81Z module and FB01 piano module ?1988
Technics KN800 ?1990
Technics KN1000 ?1992
Technics KN2000 ?1994
Yamaha PSR 500 ?1994
Yamaha PSR510 ?1995
Yamaha PSR620 ?1996
Technics KN5000 (dates too confusing)
Roland G800 1997
Yamaha PSR8000 1997
Solton X1 1998
Yamaha PSR740 1999
Yamaha PSR9000 1999
Korg PA80 2000
Yamaha PSR2000 2001
???? 2002
DonM

Well done Don! nice collection.
Things have come a long way since 1965.

I remember a music class at Temple (1974)that listed the 4 groups of musical instruments, and there was alot of argument over whether to even include the Hammaond organ, because it was electronic. Eventually, that became it's own group, but for centurys there were only 4 groups...string, woodwind, brass and percussion. At that time they were using the acoustical properties of air movement as a criteria for sound creation. If you look at it THAT way, when using an electronic instrument....the speaker is actually moving the air - without it - there IS no music. You can debate that one forever. Tecnically - no digital instrument REALLY makes music - it needs the movement of air to be heard, and if it's NOT heard ..... is it music?
..Things that make you go hmmmmmmmmm......?

That's like the question:

If a man is all alone in the woods and he says something. . . is he still wrong?
DonM

Don, you mean if there's no woman around?

Exactly.
DonM