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Keyboards.  Ones I've personally owned:  the Yamaha Motif.  Lust for the sound of:  the venerable Mellotron.  Biggest Baddest Ass on the planet:  the Hammond B-3.  Perhaps the most influential:  the venerable Mini-Moog.
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There are just too many, I could never make my mind up...

Hammond B3/C3 (they are the same thing, of course)
MiniMoog
Yamaha CS80
Oberheim OB8
Prophet 5
Roland Jupiter8
ARP Odyssey 
Mellotron (If it would stay in tune/not wear out tapes/not catch fire)

Of the keys I actually own/have owned, Korg Prophecy, lovely screaming lead synth, Alesis Fusion, brilliant sounding workstation if you treat it right.

Though more and more, I am leaning to Apple Mainstage, and choosing the best virtual recreations of my all time faves (It means I can pack a master keyboard and a laptop and have a rig that would have taken a truck once - I KNOW it's not really the same, but a, I could never afford the above list, and b, through the average rubbish PA nobody will tell a classic 1962 B3 from NI-B4II
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Did I miss it, or has the Fender Rhodes really not been mentioned?

This then, together with the Hammond B3.
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Originally posted by clarke2001 clarke2001 wrote:

There's no such thing as a bad keyboard!
 
Try a 1984 Casiotone.
 
Appart from this, I agree, even the cheesy Farfisa can sound great in good hands (check The Doors)
 
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Hammond is the masteliest of them all, of course!
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I love my keys.  My Hammond L-100 and my Rhodes.
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Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

Originally posted by clarke2001 clarke2001 wrote:

There's no such thing as a bad keyboard!
 
Try a 1984 Casiotone.
 
Appart from this, I agree, even the cheesy Farfisa can sound great in good hands (check The Doors)
 
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Fred Frith uses a Casio 101 on Cheap At Half The Price to good effect.  Are we talking the same instrument?

Before my Korg, there was this really cheap thing at home, and I don't even remember what it was, destroyed in a house fire.  But I got it to make some interesting stuff.  Of course I was just fooling around.

I think what sparked my interest in keyboards had to be one set of grandparents having a decent functional electric organ at home, two tiers of keys baby as I recall and foot pedals, and the other ones having a kind of dysfunctional antique.
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Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

Hammond C3 + Minimoog + Mellotron + ARP Pro Soloist + Steinway Grand Piano.
 

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Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

Originally posted by clarke2001 clarke2001 wrote:

There's no such thing as a bad keyboard!
 
Try a 1984 Casiotone.


Hey, watch it! My Casiotone 7000 knows where you live Wink
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I have a Rhodes, which is fantastic (the Rhodes, not the fact that I own it) but my '69 Wurlitzer 200 is just as good.
I always wanted a Minimoog since I was at school, but they have been too expensive or too cronky. Now there is the Macbeth Micromac. Costs as much as a secondhand Voyager - but it has all the sonic muscle and power of the Mini.
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Originally posted by Startibartfast Startibartfast wrote:

Oh if I could only have a keyboard that does a good Mellotron. I've got some patches on the K1 that come close in envelope but...


I used to own an EMU Vintage Keys, which had some good Mellotron samples, but if you want the true sound without the cost/constant repair bills, this is the beast for you:



Memotron (by Manikin Electronic)

Not cheap, but a superb digital copy, with the correct feel & look, too (even Edgar Froese is using one these days, which has to be a recommendation)

Originally posted by himtroy himtroy wrote:

I love my keys.  My Hammond L-100


I'm rather fond of my 1971 Hammond L122 too

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Originally posted by Ronnie Pilgrim Ronnie Pilgrim wrote:

Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

Hammond C3 + Minimoog + Mellotron + ARP Pro Soloist + Steinway Grand Piano.
 

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Approve A Fender Rhodes would be nice too!


Edited by Fox On The Rocks - July 16 2012 at 14:50
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Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

Hohner Clavinet

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Well, the only one I've used is the Casio CTK-4000, which I've had for about a year and a half now, which is really great.
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Difficult question, perhaps the Moog, Mini-Moog and Mellotron gave the most distictive sounds in Prog. The Hammond was huge but it was already there before Prog kicked in.
 
ARPs were also important, as well as Farfisas, the Hohner Clavinet and the Rhodes.
 
Technologically the Synclavier was a real blast though it was not really a keyboard but a sampler system.
 
BTW this is a nice video of Pat Metheny showing his Synclavier controlled from his Roland guitar controller in the mid 80's.
 
Not related to the question but listen to his words in the last minute of the video, most proggers will like them Smile
 
 
 


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My micro korg sampler. Because I can sample anything, and it's super light to take to gigs. I just wish it had a monophonic mode for blistering minimoog solos.
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