Our oldest hw keyboards?

[bitley]

Do you have anything older like a home organ or a synth which is really vintage?

What are you doing with it?

I actually really like all keyboard instruments and there is so much fun connecting it to Reason, adding effects and recording stuff.

It has gotten to a point for me where the oldest most forgotten things are the ones sounding really unique and amazing.

I'm currently looking at a 1975 Crumar Roadrunner 2 and I looked it up too in my vintage holy Keyfax 2 bible lol. The author says this is the most boring keyboard ever made. That's when I wake up and think it must be the coolest thing ever lol. It's supposedly an electric piano but the cool thing is that it actually is a very very simple synthesizer. But not too simple either. It seems to have three so-called piano sounds but it's the same poly sawtooth sound in three different filter settings. Boooooring. And no midi either. I must be sick but I loooove this. Such a raw sound can be processed up to outer galaxies and the boooring keyboard even has a chorus or phaser so yup I absolutely want it.

As much as I love all software synths they sound very different compared to seriously old junk. The software and VA instruments often lack that undefineable Mojo.

Thankfully I live by myself so I will keep adding dusty old gear nobody writes home about.

Let me know what you have discovered, ideally manufactured before 2015. You see 10 year old stuff is actually vintage already.

I can safely say that all of my hw gear falls under the vintage category. Most of it is digital as analog stuff is so extremely expensive but if we widen the circle away from unobtanium like Prophet 5, Polysix, Juno 6, TB-303, Minimoog etc, there are actually rocks with a bit of gold in them to discover and have fun with!

[selig]

My current oldest keyboard is my suitcase Rhodes from 1977.

[bitley]

Isn't she lovely
Isn't she wonderful

[bitley]

Now I played my Roland RD-250S and it sounds like only Chaka is missing here. However one key is slightly chipped, easy or hard to fix?

[selig]

Now I played my Roland RD-250S and it sounds like only Chaka is missing here. However one key is slightly chipped, easy or hard to fix?

That reminds me…
I still have my old Matrix 6 which was my first poly synth I actually owned, purchased new in 1986 (also still have the PCM70s from the same era). One key is completely borked on it, and I haven't even fired it up in years (don't particularly miss it either…).

[bitley]

Wow I love that one! I wish I could borrow yours!

[stillifegaijin]

My oldest is a Roland JX-8P from the mid-80s. I used to have an older Fender Bass Rhodes but gave it up because it was unreliable.

[bitley]

Loving the 8p, one of my favourites. Hard to find them in a good condition, yours looking nice? Soundtrack is a fantastic sound but the bass is fantastic too. I have made a whole album dedicated to jx8P and jx10;