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"This is a very unusual vintage item, Hard to find. It is a six keyboard music trainer. It is designed so that a teacher can have 6 students sit down at once and they can teach them all at the same time or indidvidually. 120 volts ac.
The keyboards all have their own headphone jacks for independant operation and also there are some swithches on the unit that seem to allow coupling together so each can hear the others for duet, trio,etc up to all 6. Also has some in or out jacks so maybe you can mix with other sounds? Not sure of all the functions of the other switches, but there also is built in speaker under the console too. There is some type of wired remote as well, I assume so the teacher can combine or separate each. Each keyboard has its own headphone/output jack, level control, and a multiposition "voice"control, that changes the sound to different synthesized sounds. They have a nice early synth sound to it perhapse like a simple moog or early roland?. Polyphonic ( multiple keys on each keyboard can be pushed and work at the same time) Probably uses early standard analog synth generators perhapse made by one of the big synth companies- all put into this big console -may be more valuable for someone to separate into six early synth units and sell each separately. It has been tested and all of the keys on all of the keyboards worked (except for the one of the keyboards seemed to have scratcy controls and has one key that did not work-probably needs contacts cleaned or adjusted). We did not have a lot of time to further check this, or know what all the extra switches on the remote and console do, so it will be sold as is-guaranteed not dead.
It conveniently folds up and wheels away so it is sort of portable. Because this item is so large it will be local pick up only or you can arrange truck pickup from your end after its' paid for."
I remember seeing this in the latest Future Music shot video via Sonic State.
via Cynthia of Cyndustries.
one of the first keyboards i ever touched in middle school. i think i saw some band actually lugging one of these around for live shows a while back
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ReplyDeleteThey had one of these when I was in junior high school. The sound and reliability were not the least bit inspiring though I doubt much would withstand junior highschoolers and it sounded better than a piece of wood with keys painted on it
ReplyDeleteOh and yes it would be novel to see some sort of 6 member band playing one at a gig... all of about 5 minutes.
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