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
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>
> 2009/10/16, Ken Restivo <ken@email-addr-hidden>:
> > 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
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