(music) Keyboards! :D

[Togakure]

This topic will probably be as popular as a butt pimple, but here goes anyway:

How many of you own or have owned keyboards? Have any favorites? Well, hell then: do tell!

My favorite will always be a beautifully polished black Bosendorfer concert grand. There is no finer piece of musical furniture on the planet.

As far as keyboards go, my first (aside from our Baldwin Acrosonic spinet piano) was a Farfisa Mini-Compact organ. My first synth was a Korg MS-20, complete with slanted patch bay and chords. My first polyphonic synth was the first programmable polyphonic (40 patches!!!!), a rev2 Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 (which I still have in storage; it needs some repairs). I've also owned a Crumar T-1 organ, Moog Source, Yamaha DX-7 and TX-7, Yamaha SK-30 Organ/String Machine, Sequential Circuits Pro-One, Six Trak, and Drum Traks, Korg Polysix, Roland Juno-60 and 106, Ensoniq ESQ-1, Emu-e64 sampler, Roland MC-505 beatbox, and a Generalmusic S1 Turbo sampling workstation.

I've had the pleasure of using: a Korg Mono/Poly, Poly 800, M-1 and Trident; Mini- and Memory Moogs; Oberheim Matrix 6 and OB-8 synths; ARP 2600; PPG Wave; Rhodes Chroma; Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer and Yamaha electric pianos; Hammond M3 and B3 organs: and Roland Jupiter 6 and 8 synths, and Roland TB-303 and TR-606 bass and drum boxes (remember these?!). I only used it for two gigs, but I thoroughly loved the Clavia Nord Lead synth (the original though; this picture is of the Nord Lead 2, which was similar).