On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 03:33:42PM +0200, Carlos Sanchiavedraz wrote: > 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 That's the thing, as I recall. Yeah, there was some serious money going on. > > You always have nice stories, thanks for sharing Ken. > I've been reluctant to share this one, because it's so sketchy and was so long ago. I was hoping to track the guy down via Facebook or something and get confirmation that it was indeed a GX-1, but haven't had any luck so far. That kid left the public school system the year after for some private school, and never heard from him again. -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
