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Subject: ID The Keyboard?

From: john barrick <barrickjohn262@gmail.com>
Date: 2011-09-23

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VMZ0-nJ0Ipo

Here's a clip of Bowie on the Tonight show in 1980 - can someone tell me what the top keyboard is?  It has the shitty paneling look of a chamberlin (which Bowie had), but doesn't look big enough to be an M1.  It sounds cool to me, but is probably some kind of synth or low rent organ.  I have no idea if it is, but it sort of looks like Carlos Alomar playing it.

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john barrick

∗Leo got it right the first time∗
∗then he added a second pickup and got it righter∗