post your instrument

[wellington1869]

whats your favorite instrument other than your keyboard?
pics or it doesnt exist.

and keep your pants on.

[JBert]

My keyboard - really!

[wellington1869]

My keyboard - really!

lol, [strike]you must have other favorite instruments[/strike] eventually clicked on the link, yea sweet keyboard! I find people who are picky about (typing) keyboards are generally picky about other tools/hobbies too.

[whininggit]

These photos aren't of mine, but they're the same models.

Got this in 1995 - Technics sx-KN3000.


This in 1998 (but in brown, not black) - Technics sx-PR602. Needs the amplifier repairing at the moment, so I can only play with headphones.


I don't know which is my favourite. The piano does everything that the keyboard does, but has weighted keys, but then it's not as portable...

[didjamatic]

Stix Didjeridoo/Didgeridoo

[JBert]

lol, you must have other favorite instruments. I find people who are picky about keyboards are generally picky about other tools/hobbies too.

Did you check the link?

I've still got a "classic" guitar which I've inherited from my dad, but I never play on it though.
Unlike an acoustic guitar, it has 3 nylon strings and needs more force on the strings because the distance between frets and strings is somewhat wider.

[itlnstln]

I was going to post pics of my meat whistle/skin flute, but the GH server wouldn't hold pics that large.

[InSanCen]

A lot are in storage at the moment, but when they are back, I never pass up the opportunity to A) take pictures and B) post Synth Porn!

My mainstays:-

Yamaha DX7... the sounds are meh... but I adore the keyfeel on this.
Yamaha CS1X... This is the other way around. Sounds are good, build quality is... plasticky. I should have pictures in the next couple of weeks. They are on loan at the moment.

Other synths, in storage ATM.
Nord Lead.
Korg Trinity
Korg Prophecy
Korg 05/RW

And I want a TI Virus.

I was going to post pics of my meat whistle/skin flute, but the GH server wouldn't hold pics that large.

Bwhahahaha....

Pink Oboe?

[ch_123]

Itlnstln has demonstrated an important property of the intertubes - if a crude joke comes to mind, don't bother saying it. Someone else inevitably will say it for you.

[noctua]

After Korg M1, Korg N364 i have the Korg Triton current at home, apart from my office..

[itlnstln]

Bwhahahaha....

Pink Oboe?

No.  Bologna Bassoon.

[itlnstln]

Itlnstln has demonstrated an important property of the intertubes - if a crude joke comes to mind, don't bother saying it. Someone else inevitably will say it for you.

You can always count on me.  A veritable stalwart of crudeness and indecency.

[wellington1869]

Stix Didjeridoo/Didgeridoo

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lol, never mind. I thought it was a humungous rain stick.

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[wellington1869]

After Korg M1, Korg N364 i have the Korg Triton current at home, apart from my office..

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sweet. I just bought a midi keyboard, a nice one, for dirt cheap on craigslist. Why did i buy one? I cant play the piano, or any kind of keyboard. Well... for some reason I think its "good to have". lol.  I'll post a pic. yea taking lessons (or teaching myself eventually) is on my things to do list.  Would love to play me some blues piano. Also since its midi I can map some drums and **** on to it if I need that for a quick recording.

[wellington1869]

this is my main baby, as posted elsewhere,



I actually sold my les paul to get this cheap-o gibson melody maker, but omg i love it so. First off its best feature is that its 5 lbs. And that doesnt effect its sound negatively at all, lots of warmth and sustain, and the stock pickups are really good, a kind of gritty-blues sound. Turn up the distortion and it rages against authority, dial it back and it twangs sadly about the girl it lost. So its got my whole musical range covered

My latest baby though is actually my wilson prostaff tennis racquet (itln will be happy to know I'm up and about actually playing a sport). Bought it in 1993 for $200, and played a *lot* until about 1997, when I packed it away for grad school. I just dusted it off this summer after a 13 year absence from the sport and it feels really good to be out on a court again. The racquet has aged so well, really holds up even compared to contemporary racquets. (amazingly its also still being sold in stores).  I love the thing to death, its perfect for me. Pic to follow, natch.

[wellington1869]

This in 1998 (but in brown, not black) - Technics sx-PR602. Needs the amplifier repairing at the moment, so I can only play with headphones.

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I don't know which is my favourite. The piano does everything that the keyboard does, but has weighted keys, but then it's not as portable...

sweetness. love that piano. but yea, portability is nice. they're doing amazing things with instruments these days. I'm a tube amp guy but i really like the digital amp models on my zoom g1 headphone amp. Really decent.

I'm also looking at either an zoom H2 or a Q3 for quick-n-dirty recordings. (It could double as a really good keyboard-keyswitch-sound-recorder for gh reviews).  Also the korg sound-on-sound multi-track recorder looks really convenient.

[wellington1869]

Did you check the link?

yea i'm a bit slow on the uptake sometimes edited my response

[gr1m]

Well I'd post my rusty, banged up piece of crap but it really isn't anything post-worthy. I'll update when I buy a new beauty.

[Brodie337]

My baby, named Gumbi, thanks to the headstock:


It's a German made Warwick Corvette $$

My girlfriend bought it as a present after my Thunderbird (11 pounds of mahogany fury) died in a car crash.

Loved it ever since.

EDIT:
Here's a better pic of the Gumbi style headstock:
http://www.elderly.com/new_instruments/items/images/55N/CORVDB5_headstock-front.jpg

[Voixdelion]

How do I take a picture of my voice?

[gr1m]

Step 1: take off clothes
Step 2: keyboard on head

[wellington1869]

How do I take a picture of my voice?

how about a recording?

Step 1: take off clothes
Step 2: keyboard on head

yea, or that

[Oqsy]

Blue (custom) fender jazzmaster. Stupid tapatalk cropped the already crap phone pic. I will do an edit with better pic later. I also have a takamine acoustic, a strat, a tele, a pbass, and this *****in' first act Volkswagen promotional guitar that's kinda of styled after a guild I think. Or maybe a non lp/sg gibson solid body. That's a really fun guitar and great quality for "first act".

[wellington1869]

Blue (custom) fender jazzmaster. Stupid tapatalk cropped the already crap phone pic. I will do an edit with better pic later. I also have a takamine acoustic, a strat, a tele, a pbass, and this *****in' first act Volkswagen promotional guitar that's kinda of styled after a guild I think. Or maybe a non lp/sg gibson solid body. That's a really fun guitar and great quality for "first act".

looks good, blue and orange go surprisingly well together

[wellington1869]

This was my first one, a kramer striker 200st. Yea, it was a piece of crap, but I loved the color (a sparkly cherry red, pic doesnt do it justice).  Strikers are apparently kind of collectors items now for people with 80's nostalgia. I originally bought it for about $200 (saved up with money from a paper route) and still sold this for $110 after 22 years



Upgraded briefly to this, a plain looking les paul studio (tho there's no shortage of ways to pimp out your les paul if you want to, lol). I always thought I was a fender guy until I finally played an LP.


But even the scooped out weight-reduced studio model felt too heavy to me, and never did get used to hump in the middle after a lifetime of playing strat-copies.  But more than comfort, I also couldnt get the super-hot burstbucker pickups to sound good thru my headphone amp (they probably sound great thru a marshall stack). So I promptly down-graded to my current melody maker which suits where I am (musically and otherwise) at the moment, perfectly.

[Oqsy]

That pic doesn't do the colors justice... it's pepsi can blue with a red tortoise shell pickguard.

[microsoft windows]

One of my favorite eating instruments.

[gr1m]

Vintage guitars always warm my heart. When it comes to playing though, I prefer the newfangled Japanese shred-machines.

[wellington1869]

Vintage guitars always warm my heart. When it comes to playing though, I prefer the newfangled Japanese shred-machines.

i've definitely been tempted by the odd ibanez or two, they're so pretty. But in the end I've only let myself plunk down money on old fashioned shapes.  I've been seriously tempted by a gretsch duo jet, which is probably about as radical as I've gotten. (Love that bigsby). I promised myself I would buy one of these before I die.



Perfect for my Reverend Horton Heat imitation.

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[instantkamera]

I was going to post pics of my meat whistle/skin flute, but the GH server wouldn't hold pics that large.

I have the opposite problem, some kind of "error: Unexpected end of data: cannot parse 0 byte file."

[EverythingIBM]

I really want a Roland C-30 harpsichord (unless I could get a real one -- but it would be so expensive, and no one sells any, unless I didn't look enough):


Although it annoys me that the changed the colour of the keys... It should look more like this:

[cmr]

behold: the dubreq stylophone



1-key rollover. no debouncing or envelope controls whatsoever. you get an octave and a half of "keyboard", three oscillator settings, vibrato, and a tuning knob.

but with a bit of multitrack recording software and a lot of RSI you can actually make something resembling music...

[Voixdelion]

behold: the dubreq stylophone

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1-key rollover. no debouncing or envelope controls whatsoever. you get an octave and a half of "keyboard", three oscillator settings, vibrato, and a tuning knob.

but with a bit of multitrack recording software and a lot of RSI you can actually make something resembling music...

Interesting...

[Oqsy]

cmr: do you take requests?  I'd love some kraftwerk recordings made with that little guy  (Pocket Calculator or "Taschenrechner" comes to mind)

[cmr]

ah, but kraftwerk already used a 60s model stylophone on pocket calculator!

i'm in the middle of working the theme from danger man right now but i'll consider any requests.

[EverythingIBM]

ah, but kraftwerk already used a 60s model stylophone on pocket calculator!

i'm in the middle of working the theme from danger man right now but i'll consider any requests.

Hmmm... how about Antonio Soler's Fandango on that stylohphone? Or Thomas Campion's "when thou must home".

[Oqsy]

cmr: Precisely.  I've been worried about the future of music and music fans, but after that post, I can really just take 'er easy from now on.  You've made an old timer proud, son.

[EverythingIBM]

cmr: Precisely.  I've been worried about the future of music and music fans, but after that post, I can really just take 'er easy from now on.  You've made an old timer proud, son.

*sniff* but what about me? Haven't I made an old timer proud with my taste in music?

What if I do kraftwerk on the JV-1080 (I'd need to reformat my intellistation to XP though, since windows 7 is a watered down piece of junk that can't handle MIDI):

[wellington1869]

behold: the dubreq stylophone

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1-key rollover. no debouncing or envelope controls whatsoever. you get an octave and a half of "keyboard", three oscillator settings, vibrato, and a tuning knob.

but with a bit of multitrack recording software and a lot of RSI you can actually make something resembling music...

wow, thats better than a chipmunks album.  neat.

[pikapika]

here are mine

vantage bass, nice shape but poor pickups :



some old bass :




my best bass, a kramer with aluminium neck and new emg pickups (the picture is not mine, my bass had some hard changes to put the pickups) :



I'm trying to learn drums so i bought this, electronic drum millenium mps-100  :
not very good indeed


I got this before (yamaha dd11) which is in fact far better on the sound and responsiveness

[wellington1869]

great looking basses!  I'm trying to learn e-drums too, was debating between tabletop like the yamaha and cheap full set. You like the tabletop better huh? Something nice about being able to hit a full set tho, its more natural. Havent decided yet which I'll wind up with.

[pikapika]

thanks !

about the e-drums, a full set is better though low end are not that good and is big. I'm wondering if i keep it or not.
the yamaha is not as natural, though i had less problems, specially with the millenium if you hit the hit hat and the kick drum you hardly hear the kick, that thing didn't happen at all with the yamaha

[wellington1869]

thanks !

about the e-drums, a full set is better though low end are not that good and is big. I'm wondering if i keep it or not.
the yamaha is not as natural, though i had less problems, specially with the millenium if you hit the hit hat and the kick drum you hardly hear the kick, that thing didn't happen at all with the yamaha

how much were the milleniums? I googled that model but didnt see it. I was looking at a set on amazon for about $500. I think i'd pay that much...

[pikapika]

it's this one http://www.thomann.de/fr/millenium_mps100_edrum_starter_set.htm

i got it second hand at 150€, i heard there are good yamaha and roland full sets around 500$ specially if you can catch some second hand ones

[Oqsy]

Look into Roland's V-drums TD-4KX before you purchase.  
My brother plays drums for a living (on Beale Street in Memphis most of the time, but he gigs all around the area).  He used to have a drum shop here in the city of 55,000 where I live, and he had some V-Drums that I fell in love with.  I wish I'd had some spare $ and I would have gotten a set in addition to or to replace the crap Basix acoustic set I have now.  It's a shame this town couldn't support a dedicated percussion shop, but I'm glad he found his niche in Memphis.  Great city for live music, even if a bit stuck in the blues era.

[gr1m]

The workhorse. It's actually a unique cheap guitar in that there's nothing inherently wrong with it and no part is blatantly cheaped-out on. It's just unremarkable, and there are worse things cheap guitars can be.

I don't take care of the body at all but I oil the neck with Dunlop Lemon Oil every string-change (I love a freshly lemon-oiled fretboard).

[wellington1869]

nice looking guitar, is it a no-name? where did you get it?

i just started using lemon oil too, i like it.

Also i've started putting lubricant ('nut sauce') on the nut (sounds awfully dirty i know) instead of rubbing a pencil in there for the graphite. The nut sauce really helps keep the strings in tune longer especially if you do a lot of bends, i was surprised at how effective it is.

my mm doesnt have a tremolo, and while i really like tremolos, i just got sick and tired of the strings going out of tune every couple of hours. Even with a string-lock thing on the nut it never worked for me. So I opted to live without it.  Even tho i dream of one day installing a bigsby.

In the meanwhile i've been experimenting with the digital 'pitch bender' thats included with my zoom headphone amp.  Its not bad really, used with the expression pedal, you can simulate the tremolo and dive bombs pretty well. I wouldnt mind a dedicated pedal with more control over it, though.  But yea, a digital tremolo may be the answer to the keeps-going-out-of-tune problem.

[itlnstln]

My skin flute has some nut sauce.

[wellington1869]

My skin flute has some nut sauce.

[gr1m]

nice looking guitar, is it a no-name? where did you get it?

Na, it's an Ibanez. The only part of the guitar I managed to not get in the picture is the very tip of the headstock with the word Ibanez on it. Ibanez GAX70.  

i just started using lemon oil too, i like it.

Also i've started putting lubricant ('nut sauce') on the nut (sounds awfully dirty i know) instead of rubbing a pencil in there for the graphite. The nut sauce really helps keep the strings in tune longer especially if you do a lot of bends, i was surprised at how effective it is.

Yeah, lemon oil is the best, but I never thought about lubricating the nut. My strings do go out of tune once in a while (especially with new strings until I break into them) but I attributed it to the fact that it's a $200 guitar without considering that it has something to do with maintenance.

my mm doesnt have a tremolo, and while i really like tremolos, i just got sick and tired of the strings going out of tune every couple of hours. Even with a string-lock thing on the nut it never worked for me. So I opted to live without it.  Even tho i dream of one day installing a bigsby.

Tremolos are a lot more pain than they're worth. Even the good ones that don't go out of tune like Original Floyd Roses. My friend had one and while he was changing strings, he messed up by tightening something or another too tightly and the entire thing popped out of the guitar, lol. Besides, I like changing tunings often so hard-tails are for me.

In the meanwhile i've been experimenting with the digital 'pitch bender' thats included with my zoom headphone amp.  Its not bad really, used with the expression pedal, you can simulate the tremolo and dive bombs pretty well. I wouldnt mind a dedicated pedal with more control over it, though.  But yea, a digital tremolo may be the answer to the keeps-going-out-of-tune problem.

I still haven't bought any pedals or sound gear or new amps because after hearing an ENGL Powerball (a $2000 amp head), I don't want to use anything else, because I know that any amount I spend will be less money put in my ENGL Powerball fund.