I was looking through an Instagram of Alyona Melnyk, a popular Russian songwriter. She composes music and writes lyrics and is rather successful, as many of Russian pop artists perform her songs. She has been a full-time author for 20 years now.

It was interesting to find out what keyboard she uses when she works at new songs at home:

I guess it’s like a pen for some writers. If stuff you create with it is successful why would you change it?
As Alyona says on her Instagram “I don’t depend on inspiration. Sometimes I have to sit and work on new song for hours without a success. I argue with myself, with God, with anything. Then I start to have some progress”.

As I understand, once she finishes a song, she goes to a studio and she works on an arrangement with other musicians. They make a professional demo with professional singers and then a song is offered to a popular artist.

This is one of her songs:

very interesting good luck to her
the scratch-pad kb she uses at home is just that..
but all the magic happens afterwards at the studio post production
before it's all mastered and released...

Ps pics are a bit distorted due to size..

So, sorry I'm such an idiot but what is it?

What is what? If you’re wondering about a keyboard, that’s Casio CTK-800. If you’re wondering about what this topic is doing here, well; it’s just about one songwriter using this keyboard to make songs. We know that Yamaha promotes Genos as a tool for this purpose. :-)

I wouldn’t have recognised what the keyboard was either. Haha

Hi,
I think I read somewhere that is how Steve A does his songs too ?
Uses the arranger to write the song, then uses studio musicians to do the final recording.

Just wondering what the kb was. Thanks for letting us know.