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"SUIKO-100 is extremely rare and most strange japanese electronic musical instruments it was originally made for japanese traditinal music circa. 1980. SUIKO-100 was a most expensive and top of the line product of SUIKO series it's built in cool brown custom suitcase like EMS synth, one side of the suitcase is a speaker so you can play without external amp or mixer but don't worry it has audio output too. keyboard itself is built in beautiful plastic case and design look lil bit like Roland TB-303 BASSLINE keyboard is separatable from it's case
these keyboards were very expensive and made very limited quantities those days so i'ts very hard to find even in Japan nowadays... this is your first and last chance to get this vintage gem! it has 2 rows of button keyboard this keyboard specially designed for playing glissando easily instruments like koto(japanese harp) front row of the keyboard is japanese scale,so just playing randomly you can easily get exotic japanese melody!
there are various switchs and dial for special japanese tuning, sustain, octave, vibrate, bend, mono/poly switchs are avaliable and it also has auto play/rec function with IC card but unfotunately this one has no cards
many sounds are selectable,mainly japanese traditional instruments like shyakuhachi(japanese bamboo flute), koto(japanese harp) and to oboe, strings, chorus etc..
in drums mode it become exotic rhythm section full of japanese traditional drums and percussion and you can play all these percussion by keyboard sounds are very real and warm and strange!,very unique original sounds even chorus or strings sound has dark vintage sound color like mellotron"
Well first off, as I've brought up before but people just disagree with me is that just because it's an electronic instrument doesn't mean it's actually a synth. Anyway I wonder if it's an early entry in the electronic taishogoto market, in other words aimed at taishogoto players? Or perhaps it's meant to be used to accompany something so you can play another instrument yourself? You know, like those indian electronic instruments out there. Accompany exactly what traditional Japanese musi is the question?
ReplyDeletean even more portable one of these whatever they are
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Worth being a bit careful about the pricing for some of these ebay auctions--one of these just sold on Yahoo Auctions in Japan for about JPY5,800, which is considerably less than the USD6-700 prices one sometimes sees asked on ebay.
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