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Subject: RE: [newmellotrongroup] ID The Keyboard?

From: John Hammaren <hammaren@geoconcepts.com>
Date: 2011-09-24

Yup, it is an SE. You can’t mistake the Chorus effect. I one purchased on the ridiculous side of price in ’09 mainly because of its perfect condition, but you should be able to pick one up between $1000 and $1200. There is no sound like it, but it does get old after a while. It does have a few more keys than a Tron though.

 

From: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com [mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of lsf5275@aol.com
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 7:14 PM
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] ID The Keyboard?

 

 

Solinas in good shape are highly sought after. Prices, however, are not always ridiculous.

 

In a message dated 9/23/2011 5:37:19 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, barrickjohn262@gmail.com writes:

 

Thanks - it definitely is - so the really stupid question:  How hard are these to come across these days?  Are samples the route to take,  or a low end synth with a rough and ready chorus pedal?

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@gmail.com> wrote:

 

It's a Solina, I think.



On 23/09/2011 07:53, john barrick wrote:

 

 

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∗