YAMAHA GX-1
Recently I went to an outer suburb of Sydney to have a look at a special musical instrument to buy for one of my customers.
A YAMAHA GX-1; An analog synthesizer.
YAMAHA sold this Electone from 1975 to the early 80’s.
They sold for JPY 7,000,000 at that time.
30 years later I managed to find and see this super rare musical instrument in Australia.
I am about to organize to ship this item to Pete Townshend of The Who in London.
He said he is going to put this instrument in his museum and is excited to also get the chance to use it in the future in one of his projects.
Maybe you can see this beautiful piece of music history if you get the chance to visit his museum in the future.
Pete is very excited to receive this new addition for his museum and wrote this to us:
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Hi Taro
"My synth and studio museum will open in Kingston, London, in around late 2015 as part of The Who's 50th anniversary celebrations.
Certain instruments will be available at evenings and weekends for keyboard players to test – even to record if they bring laptops –
but mainly to confirm what we all know: that these old analogue instruments were and still are wonderful,
but the computer and software instruments on offer today are an equally good way to go in the modern world.
It's fun and important to find that out, to confirm something many a bedroom musician working on a small budget already suspects.
I'm lucky to be able to afford an old CS80 as well as a few software versions,
and can tell you that the only thing you miss in the software version is the polyphonic after touch keyboard –
someone will make an affordable one soon I hope. Maybe Yamaha!!!?
There is something challenging and inspiring about sitting at a great organ keyboard rather than noodling on a laptop computer,
but in the right hands both can and often do produce great music."
Pete
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Guess I now know where the family vacation will be in 2016.
Taro
