Instruments

TheBarbarian wrote: If you could own one instrument what would it be? Please though don't choose something and say the one Peter Hammil used or something, you have to want the it because its brilliant/beautiful/sounds great I'd go for either Keith Emerson's modular moog simply because its so enourmous and intimidatingly complex or Jimmy Page's Gibson, an gorgeous piece of work and sounds intensely good.

John Bonham's Vistalites, or Billy Cobham's acryllic Fibes set, as well as:

marktheshark wrote: Carl Palmer's custom built stainless steel set by Ludwig he used on the Welcome Back and Works tours. The bass drum alone weighed 300lbs! He eventually sold it to Ringo who donated to the R&R Hall of Fame. Which I have yet to go up there and check it out.

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I want Steve Howes Harp Guitar. Not for keeps, i'd never want to take any instrument from a musician, but id like to borrow it.  I heard Something happend to it though. 

A minimoog stacked on an Hammond organ stacked upon a Mellotron.

And something behind it to prevent that whole heap from falling on me.

David Gilmour's #001 strat. 

The Fender Rhodes keyboard is a favorite of mine, very .

I would like to make my own progrock solo CD with these instruments:

- Memorymoog (an impressive polyphonic synthesizer)

- ARP Pro Solist synthesizer

- Mellotron M400 (great choir sound)

- Hammond B3 organ ('The Beast')

- Hohner D6 clavinet

- Fender Rhodes electric piano

- Solina string-ensemble

- Farfisa Duo-organ

- Moog Taurus Bass Pedals

- Gibson ES 345 electric guitar

- Martin 12-string acoustic guitar

- Ovation 6-string acoustic guitar

- Rickenbacker bass guitar

- Tama drumkit

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sleeper wrote: Trey Gunns Warr Guitar, it looks better than a Chapman Stick so thats the only reason I would have it over Tony Levins Stick.

UUHH yes me too! The War guitar...when I saw trey Gunn live I couldn´t believe all thouse sounds came out of that thing!!!

Geddy Lee's voice!

Actually whatever would go for the most on ebay, like an Elvis guitar or something.

Flying Dutchman wrote: Also, Banks's Hammond organs sound delicious.  I like Emo's clicky organs as well

Banks used one of the smaller "spinet" Hammonds (T500, I think), whereas Emo used the full console C3, which after being used (abused?) constantly used to develop what some players consider a fault - the 'key-click'(hence clicky-organ??); many players love this so called fault & later digital Hammonds have 'key-click' as a setting...

Personally, I own one of my dream instruments, a 1971 Hammond L122 & Leslie 145 combination (and no, I can't play it very well... ) - all I need now is the Mini Moog, Prophet V, Fender Rhodes Piano & Mellotron and my dreams are complete.

Digital Keyboards? Bah!

For me, it would be a Chapman Stick with all the
extras (midi and effects stuff and amps). As
mentioned above, the Warr looks better. My
shoulders and back hurt just thinking about having it
strapped to me for longer than five minutes.

A Musicman Stingray 5 string bass would be my
second choice (though I might actually buy one in the
future).

As long as we're dreaming, an old Fairlight CMI
would be nice, just for the novelty of having
something that was so groundbreaking for such a
brief period of time.