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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] ID The Keyboard?

From: john barrick <barrickjohn262@gmail.com>
Date: 2011-09-24

One sold on Ebay earlier this year for $1,500.  It apparently was the first version, without an on/off switch for the chorus.  I'm also hearing that the third version was still being produced in the mid '80s after ARP's demise, and that the circuitry had been redesigned so much that they longer sounded the same.
Andy - an Eminent would fill the bill quite nicely.
John - yes, it is not something that you'd want to use wall to wall on all your material.

On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 6:13 AM, John Hammaren <hammaren@geoconcepts.com> wrote:
 

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.

 

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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∗

 




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john barrick

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