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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] 10 Worst Keyboards

From: "Tony" <atm655@verizon.net>
Date: 2007-11-29

I disagree too, I had a 73 note stage piano with a sustainer (some MXR device for guitars) with my tunings, the sucker would sustain clean ethereal sounds for a long as you held the custom made pedal 2' wide and monolith stand with 2 ARP Odysseys  on top a long with the trusty M400 and ARP 2600 w/digital sequencer (Dave Smith's first unit sold serial #2).
 
IMHO the Yamaha DX7 is an unnecessarily "obtuse" instrument that I have ever played. I don't have the energy to "hate" anything ,but I sure don't care about the DX7 and I was a factory authorized tech for them among
 many many others.
Tony
#510
----- Original Message -----
From: jeffc@netaxs.com
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 2:01 AM
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] 10 Worst Keyboards

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, mellotronist wrote:

> Fender Rhodes. I have never hated an instrument with keys as much as I hate those things.

i'd have to disagree, IMHO, of course.
with all the lame crap instruments out there, that would
not make my worst 10.
i find playing a rhodes a quite organic experience.
plug it into a phaser and i think they sound even better.

i vote for the korg M-1.
the very definition of "dross".
did anyone EVER actually program one, or did EVERYONE just
use the presets... i bet out of the thousands sold, only
a handful ever had their presets altered...

...jeff

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: MAinPsych@aol. com
> To: newmellotrongroup@ yahoogroups. com
> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 11:35 PM
> Subject: [newmellotrongroup] 10 Worst Keyboards
>
>
> Today there was a link on AOL titled, "The Ten Worst Keyboards of All Time". To my disappointment, it was about PC keyboards; however, it got me to thinking that we've talked about cool keyboards (our kind, of course), but I don't remember any exchanges about the worst. Sure to be some controversy. Any takers?
>
> 1. The Birotron (cool in concept; dismal in execution)
> 2. Any pre-M1 Chamberlin (Excedrin cycling headache # infinity)
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