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Making prog in your living room is the ideal way to access the kitchen sink.
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Originally posted by Easy Money Easy Money wrote:

^ That would be my guess based on the information that you have provided. The Lowery Symphoniser that I played on at the music store was a sort of short lived high end Lowrey organ that had a string symphoniser as an add on to the organ.
A bit of research revealed that the Lowrey organ which had the integrated Symphoniser (string machine) was the Symphonic Theater H25-3 model.


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Yeah, I guess thats it. I was trying to remember which stop turned on the strings, maybe one on the left there.

Anyway, I have two old string synths you probably know about, ARP Quartet which does brass, strings, organ and piano on a shortened keyboard (shorter that the String Ensemble) and the Crumar Orchestrator, which does strings and other stuff on a longer keyboard. Crumar and Univox used to make keyboards that emulated the major companies for a smaller price.
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Yes I know about the ARP Quartet and the Crumar Orchestrator, although just from hearing / reading about them. The Quartet was another deal ARP made with the Italian Siel to market the Siel Orchestra with the ARP name, same as what they did with the String Ensemble made by the Dutch Eminent-Solina.
I know you have a very nice collection of keyboards! Smile
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Originally posted by Easy Money Easy Money wrote:

Yeah, I guess thats it. I was trying to remember which stop turned on the strings, maybe one on the left there.

Anyway, I have two old string synths you probably know about, ARP Quartet which does brass, strings, organ and piano on a shortened keyboard (shorter that the String Ensemble) and the Crumar Orchestrator, which does strings and other stuff on a longer keyboard. Crumar and Univox used to make keyboards that emulated the major companies for a smaller price.

I'm a big fan of cheap keyboards!  I'll put a 1/4" guitar jack on them and play them through 50 watt guitar amps!!  

I've got one of these, it is great fun! 


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I have the first Casio model ever made, I knew someone who worked for them. I also have many different models down through the years. Its interesting how they changed over time.
I have one that proclaims it has "Pulse Code Modulation". I also have the one you are showing that did short eight bit samples. It was sold at Macys of all places.

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Originally posted by Easy Money Easy Money wrote:

I have the first Casio model ever made, I knew someone who worked for them. I also have many different models down through the years. Its interesting how they changed over time.
I have one that proclaims it has "Pulse Code Modulation". I also have the one you are showing that did short eight bit samples. It was sold at Macys of all places.

Cool, nice to meet you!  I also had what I think was the first Casio...I believe it was their "M-10."   It had only a few settings, including a very nice pipe organ as I recall!  I intended to mount it onto a guitar so I would have a "double-neck" instrument (6 string guitar on top, with keyboard mounted on the bottom) but alas, I lent it to a friend and never saw it again!  

Run those suckers through a bunch of guitar stomp boxes like chorus, wah-wah etc. and you can really crank some tunes!  It's too bad that I'm such a plonker of a keyboard player!  LOL

Here, this is hilarious!  Mark Mothersbaugh of DEVO is shown playing one!!  (...is DEVO "prog??")






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Yes, M-10 is the one. Mine has some custom settings that my friend installed including a note repeater. I like to use the rhythm sections on the later Casios for making recordings. You can blend different rhythms and run them through phase shifter, compressor, reverb etc and get some interesting sounds.

The Casio keyboard sounds were purely electronic up until about the early 90s when their sounds became more sample based. I prefer the early electronic ones, but the CTK 630 (mid-90s) has some really cool features in the rhythm section that never appeared in any subsequent models.

I also wanted to hang my Casio from a guitar so I could do keyboard-guitar battles by myself, sort of as a joke, but never got around to it.

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Chris Wolstenholme of Muse has such an instrument, built by Status, bass + keyboard, should be fun


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