Oldest keys

[Badger]

Since my buddy Firebird started a "Who has the oldest GTR" thread, why not an oldest keyboard thread.

I have a 1958 or so Hammond C3, and stand to inherit an 1890's Stienway Upright. Also got a mid 70's rhodes suitacase, an old Akai AX80, and a seriously broken Lync LN-1000

Anybody else

[Roel]

I have a 1973 ARP pro soloist...

And that's about it. hehe... And some toy keyboards from the early 80's, but they aren't all in that great shape and worth even less...

[Badger]

I always wanted an Arp. I remember finding an Arp 2600 in a pawn shop back in the 80's, and thinking, nah, it'll never be worth anything...Damn I wish I had bought it now.

[Krakit]

I used to have a Wiesner piano from the 1800's. Ugly as sin and never stayed in tune.

I don't know how old my Rhodes or Hammond are, but I have a Rhodes Piano Bass that must be from the 1960's and my Korg Univox K-1 is from the early 70's.

My Roland JX-8P is from like 1981. My Korg CX-3 must be from the early 80's as well.

I've got some of those old mini Casios (including an SK-1) as well as a Yamaha DX-100.

I don't buy new keyboards anymore (opting for MIDI controllers instead) so all my new gear is of the modular variety.

[Badger]

Originally posted by Krakit
I used to have a Wiesner piano from the 1800's. Ugly as sin and never stayed in tune.

I don't know how old my Rhodes or Hammond are, but I have a Rhodes Piano Bass that must be from the 1960's and my Korg Univox K-1 is from the early 70's.

My Roland JX-8P is from like 1981. My Korg CX-3 must be from the early 80's as well.

I've got some of those old mini Casios (including an SK-1) as well as a Yamaha DX-100.

I don't buy new keyboards anymore (opting for MIDI controllers instead) so all my new gear is of the modular variety.

Yeah, I undertand that. I have one piano style controller, a General music Real Piano Pro, one synth controller, the AX-80, the rhodes and the Hammond, and then the rest modules. A U-110, an FZ10m, and my Waldorf Microwave XT. Considerably smaller than my old rig, but does as much or more. I wish mom would just me go ahead and let me take the Steinway now, man thats a wonderfull instrument. I have never played a piano that sounded as good...

[strmkr]

I have a 1969 hammond T-212 spinet organ with the little internal leslie speaker.Thinking about selling it,it is just taking up room in the studio and I can't play the damn thing anyway.

[porphyrous]

My oldest keyboard is a Wurlitzer 200 electric piano, built 1971.

My oldest synthesizer is an Ensoniq ESQ-1, built 1985.

I've always preferred American products. Perhaps the influence of my Teamster dad. I also have an Oberheim Matrix 1000, built 1987, and an Alesis QS-6, built 1998.

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