What would it be?

You sold a keyboard long ago (or even recently!) and now you really miss it...

If you could choose to get back ONE keyboard you sold/gave away/couldn't fix, what would it be?

The B 3.

G70

Even if you could get back a keyboard it would not work due to age, but if you had a magic wand and could bring them back, new! I would wish, KORG SIGMA and a Farfisa Compact Deluxe, reason being was I loved playing the keys and what I want from an analog sound.

Gents...actually there is 2 for me - of course my b3 but also my triton extreme 73...both i would like back...stevec



Steve mox8, psr 910, 2 pa600's, microarranger, cx3

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'Cmon Bernie. I think it was you that I sent the 70 to? Man, that was a lug chore getting that thing shipped

Moved and downsized a few years ago. Wish I had room to keep my Cherrywood B3 and Samick Studio Piano. Also sold a Hammond XK3, best clone out there but not needed. Took a while to sell but I got decent prices for all. I'd still rather have them then the cash.

Although I did discover that cash takes up a lot less room and is much easier to get rid of.

Really miss my old CS60... not the weight, mind you!

A Suitcase Rhodes...but I know it's in a good place.

R.

My ENSONIQ VFX-SD....

Tell me about it lol
Other than that, what a classy machine. I don't care about the weight, as I have been weight training the past year.

the BEST!

I haven't gotten rid of any but haven't owned that many either ... two now reside in grandkid's homes ...

Just gave a PSR-3000 to my son - he loves it!

For me, MasterSound MK4 controller.

Rhodes 73 flat-top with the Dyno My Piano kit

I miss my D-6 Clavinet. It would be a total guilty pleasure to have another, but man, it had such personality.

My Roland JX-10, Super Jx .,and My Hammond xk 1.

Impuls,

Just buy a Korg KRONOS..

Played one... Nothing like the originals.

TBH, not all THAT impressed by the Kronos. Still sounds like a Triton/M3/Karma follow-on. In other words, it sounds like a Korg, not a Clavinet, B3, Rhodes, Crumar, etc..

The thing is, it isn't just the SOUND that makes older keyboards still relevant. It is their quirks, how they weren't always perfectly in tune, how some notes would wolf out, or do weird things. It was how, with older synths, you never got the same sound twice, because you couldn't store a preset... all too often, I would find a great sound because I couldn't quite get the sliders and knobs to EXACTLY the same place they were before. Once you get hooked on presets, the number of new sounds you create drops to almost zero.

Plus, to me the thing that made them so great was the keybed and the physical layout and feel of the keyboard. There are things you can do on a Clavinet keyboard you would never do on an arranger. There are ways of playing the B3 waterfall keybed that don't work on most arranger and synth keybeds. The weight of the action, the way it rebounded, those helped you play stuff that is quite difficult on todays vanilla keybeds.

And the response time... Nowadays, we are used to a few milliseconds from playing the note to hearing it. On the old electromechanical keyboards, it was microseconds! You really felt 'connected'.

Modern keyboards have convenience, but the old ones had character.

I loved my old KORG M1 & Juno 60....but I wouldnt want them back in todays age of technology.

Maybe when you play with them , they don't sound as you remember.

I love my T4,till the T5 arrives :-)

Impuls

Im quite we happy with what I have today.....years ago you never missed what you didnt have to play,....today is a whole other game.

Now that Oktoberfest season is in full swing, i wish i had kept my Korg PA500 musikant. I have the PA600, and yes I have the styles, but the utility of having one board setup that can cover you for 2-3 months with specific presets and song book for this need is useful, especially when you consider the investment was not like buying a totl arranger and watching it sit there while you think about the $$ you could have..and of course it is always good to have a backup.