Hi all.

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

This is my first keyboard ever.



Regards
James.

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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I've still got this!

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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.

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!!!

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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Giullietti piano accordion.

A used Wurlitzer 140b electronic piano that I purchased in 1965 for $150.



Duane

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.

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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My first ever was casio VL1

Yamaha ps6100, I still have it.

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

Mine was a Solton MS50

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!


Bill in NJ

Yamaha X4500

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

The first keyboard I owned...

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!

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

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

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!

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

My first was a Magnus chord organ.

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.

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

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

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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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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What a bunch of old klunkers! WEREN'T THEY GREAT?

GREAT MEMORIES!


Russ

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!

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

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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upright piano, 1937 lessons out of Etude Classical,
first portable Hoehner Clavinet D3 still in closet
Bebop

WOW! it looks like an organ grandpa would play on the MUNSTERS, or maybe Addams Family

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...

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.

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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