[sdiy] Where to buy keybed ?

[Tom Wiltshire]

Absolutely agree about the home organs. For 49-key keybeds for monosynths and similar, they're ideal. Don't pay more than £10!

The Hammond 1970's era ones are incredibly substantial, although the electronics are really shoddy, especially compared to their earlier tone wheel stuff. I was given one of those by someone who didn't have space for it. I've also seen inside the Yamaha 70's and 80's organs and they're pretty good too. No velocity sensitivity though. Stay away from the cheap Italian stuff, which in my experience has really nasty cheap plastic keys (Ironic, given where Fatar are based…).

I also bought a cheap Yamaha FM-chip based 61-note home keyboard for £20, thinking to take the keybed out of it (velocity sensitive). In the end, I gave it away to someone else who needed it more than I did. But they're a source too.

Tom


On 23 Jan 2016, at 16:35, Jack Jackson <jackdamery at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

> Nice link Tom! If you don't mind second hand stuff you can sometimes find keybeds from parted out home organs on eBay. I got a couple of 80s Farfisa keybeds this way.
> 
> It's a little sad for the home organ enthusiasts, but they're currently worth peanuts second hand. Often just given away. I do wonder if they will pick up value down the road at any point.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Jack
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On 23 Jan 2016, at 16:30, Tom Wiltshire <tom at electricdruid.net> wrote:
>> 
>> These people used to have them. I don't know if they still do. Their shop seems a bit depleted.
>> 
>> http://www.keyparts.co.uk/shop?page=shop.browse&category_id=8
>> 
>> Probably worth a phone call though.
>> 
>> 
>>> On 23 Jan 2016, at 15:03, Richie Burnett <rburnett at richieburnett.co.uk> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> Can someone recommend where I could purchase a 5 octave keybed if I wanted to play about with making a synthesiser from scratch?
>>> 
>>> I've got a JX-3P here that I could part out for the keyboard, and sell the other bits on ebay, but it seems a bit brutal to trash a working vintage synth.  Would rather sell the 3P in one piece and use the money to buy a new keyboard to play about with.
>>> 
>>> Would be nice if it had normally-open and normally-closed contacts to support velocity sensing, if I wanted to implement that in future.  Just wanted for one-off experimentation, so not worried about price and bulk availability.
>>> 
>>> -Richie, 
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