This one, ken? http://www.vintagesynth.com/yamaha/gx1.php In wikipedia says it was $60000, no more no less. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_GX1 You always have nice stories, thanks for sharing Ken. 2009/10/16, Ken Restivo <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 08:01:30PM +0100, philicorda wrote: >> On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 15:13 +0200, Carlos Sanchiavedraz wrote: >> > >> >> > >> > So you say something like to achieve little variations of notes >> > ("vibrato" alike) depending on the key/finger movement, isn't it? I >> > think there is something like that in really expensive >> > keyboards/controllers, but not sure. >> >> Some of the older Yamaha organs have this. >> The D-85 has a synth keyboard with 'side to side' sensitivity that can >> be routed to filter/LFOs etc. No midi as it's a monophonic analog synth. >> The whole keyboard moves as you shift your fingers. >> >> I'm mentioning it as these old organs can be sometimes bought for next >> to nothing, and it's a helluva lot of sound for the money! Not that far >> from a GX1. :) >> >> http://www.electone.com/museum/index.html?i=290 >> > > I got to play a relatively new GX-1 when I was about 12 years > old. It was in the living room of a classmate's house. We were > running around his house, I wandered past the living room, saw that > thing, had no idea of what it was or how expensive it was, but I > had been playing organ since I was about 6 and had no fear of > things with many keys and lots of buttons... rather, I was > like... I GOTTA play that thing! It may not have been exactly > a GX-1, it may have been a home model variation of it. But > it was definitely THAT beast. > > I didn't realize that my classmate's dad was (obviously) very > wealthy. I'm pretty sure he was a lawyer or something and IIRC > had something to do with the entertainment business. We weren't > really close friends; this was the first time I'd been to his > house. At the time, suburban families in New York had Baldwin > "fun machine" organs in their living rooms as a matter of course. > This wasn't no Baldwin. Again, this dude had some serious money. > > Anyway, no kids were allowed near the thing, but somehow I was > able to talk his mom into letting me play it-- probably because > she felt like I knew what I was doing (I mean, I'd played > church organs by that time, theater organs, this wasn't no > big deal to me). She stood there terrified as I turned it on > and started playing it. My friend was forbidden to touch > it, but as I jammed away his mom let him jam along with me. > After a while she realized we weren't going to blow the thing > up, and went off to fix dinner. We did this until my mom > came and picked me up around dinnertime. > > It had a cassette tape recorder bolted underneath the lowest > manual, and I recorded some of what we did. I doubt the tape > exists anymore. I do remember that it sounded SWEET. I spent > a lot of time playing the little chicklet-keys mono synth > manual on it. > > -ken > -- Carlos "sanchiavedraz" * Musix GNU+Linux http://www.musix.es _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
