There have been a few topics asking for help from Elektronauts in identifying a specific device before (Help me identify synth please, Help me to identify this Synth Drum Machine [resolved]), but here’s a generic thread to bring such requests together in one place to aid easy searching.
Here’s my first request, as seen some time before 1999 (it’s sat on a Yamaha QX21 and next to a Roland SH-1) - thanks in advance for the help! :
Simple! I thought it was a Roland of some sort. Ta muchly.
Doing a bit of googling threw up the following info.
It would appear that the early models were made in Japan, were similar to a Wurlitzer and used Wurlitzer tines however the later models were electronic, presumably some sort of divide down tone generation. It seems there were a few different models and that Gibson imported some models and re badged them as Maestro. You could look for a model number bu if you opened it up you’d have a better idea.
Yeah it got me curious because I’m not sure whether it’s one of their early electromechanic models (that are said to combine Rhodes and Wurli approaches) or a later electric piano. Looks too tiny for the former and too big for the latter. And the seller is too far from me.
If it’s electromechanical, $65 ain’t much for the experience of tinkering with it.
If it’s an electro that’s very cheap! You’d have to ask the seller for an idea of weight as the electro models are said to be roughly the same weight as an EP200. The electronic ones will be considerably less.
Asked the seller about its model, all I got in reply was a thumbs up emoji. Some Facebook Marketplace sellers have peculiar communication patterns.
At the Taylor Swift Wembley show and near enough the backstage synths to take a blurry impossibly low res phone photo.
She hasn’t come on yet so posting said photo to give anyone here a silly challenge.
The red ones both look like Nords, maybe Nord Stage 4. Otherwise, I don’t think I’ll have a chance on the others.
I can identify fifty thousand dollars in gear and one bored sound guy, what do I win?
Reporting back that the Taylor Swift show was wonderful. Joining 90,000 people screaming along to so many amazing songs is a ridiculous thing. I’ve been to festivals and big-ish gigs before but this sort of show is just something else. I might prefer to see her do a smaller, quieter show in some years / decades but this is a whole other loud as anything beast and an experience like little else.
Some of the synth stuff had to be sequenced but then two keyboardists also played a lot of it. Does anyone have any insight into how shows like this work? I’m guessing some sort of midi sequencer sequencing a lot of the parts and then solos and more expressive bits performed live? She made a big point about it being live and there were a lot of musicians but it’s also very precise and scripted (has to be for a show like this as it has so many parts that have to work together). There’s probably a Sound on Sound article or such describing such a rig and putting it together? The two keyboardists looked like they were having a great time anyway. Must be such a thrill to play such a massive show but not as terrifying as actually being directly on stage.
from left to right top to bottom i think its
??
nord electro
prophet 6
waldorf quantum? theres something in the middle + a 5 octave keybed
nord stage
ob-6
prophet 6
the first one top left is weird cause it looks like it has mod and pitch bend wheels at the very top left corner, kind of an odd place for em.
There’s 1 Jack Nicholson, 1 Chris Cornell and 1 Andre Agassi.
Ha! I actually found all three!
this popped up in my IG feed and I was confused as to what the heck the little sampler is. anyone?
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8es4dfyoUw/?igsh=ZzloZDJobHNhM3c2
ah! good call! I figured it was some cheap and simple sampler. the pink tint and the multiple I/O jacks are what threw me off the most!
