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What was your first keyboard/organ good or bad

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  • Started 8 months ago by don1
  • Latest reply from Ben Jackson

  1. don1
    Member

    my first keyboard was a carl shuman piano bought by my mum and dad who both played mandolin. i was 5 years old. My first organ was a thomas single manual(bought because pub pianos were always out of tune or half the strings
    were broken.Iwas a teenager .BEST keyboard/organ i had,also the hardest worked was a yamaha sk54d had 2manuals organ strings brass and synth
    it was expensive at the time but nothing else came close to it soundwise
    now i play a roland g70 hundreds of sounds and no sore backs anymore
    how about you

    Posted 8 months ago #
  2. Phil Sweet
    Member

    My first organ was "made" by my Father. He acquired a (I think) a 3.5 octave set of keys to which he built a wooden cabinet, etched all the printed circuit boards, soldered all the components, built a power supply and amp....yes with a soldering iron and components!!! Made different circuit boards for different sounds with the help of his oscilloscope and many mathematical calculations....And no it wasn't an imported Wersi Kit!!.........And amazingly it sounded great.

    It was then upstaged by a Hammond Piper, then a Hammond T500 (brill) then a Hammond Commodore, Yamaha AR100 and now I have grown up and long left home (Well left home) I now visit Mum & Dad's to play their Roland AT80SL. (Still badly).

    Posted 8 months ago #
  3. Ben Jackson
    Member

    My 1st keyboard was a Yamaha which I was given by one of members of the Nottingham Organ Sociey committee, my 1st organ was a Yamaha EL7 which I brought from the Nottingham Yamaha music school (were I'm organ & guitar student at & soon to be a bass guitar student) and my current organ is Yamaha EL90 (which I brought from one of the teachers at the nottingham yamaha music school,who had brought another El90).

    Posted 8 months ago #

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