SUIKO ST-10 Japanese Oriental KOTO SYNTH+Sequencer

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"SUIKO ST-10 is extremely rare and most strange japanese electronic musical instruments
originally made for japanese traditinal music circa. 1980.

WOW! what a strange and exotic design! built in cool woody case with silver metal control panel
and comes with classy black custom suitcase
left side has digital data cassette deck! and right side has internal speaker
it has built in 2 way early digital sequencer,digital data cassette and internal memory
SUIKO ST-10 is one of the most strange design model from the SUIKO line up.
and it's first time to SUIKO ST-10 put on the ebay listing from my collection
(please check out other SUIKO models from my auction list)

SUIKO ST-10 was very expensive and made very limited quantities those days
originaly made for the very small circle of the people who seriously studying japanese traditional music
and never sold at ordinary musical instruments market
so i'ts very hard to find even in Japan nowadays...
this is your first and last chance to get this vintage oriental electronic instruments!

ST-10 is monophonic instrument and has 2 rows of white square button keyboards
this keyboards specially designed for playing glissando easily like koto(japanese harp)
front row of the keyboard is japanese scale,so just playing randomly you can easily get exotic japanese melody!
three sounds are selectable,shakuhachi(japanese bamboo flute),koto(japanese harp) and pipe organ
sounds are very analog, warm and strange!
there are various switches and knobs for special japanese tuning, sustain, volume, memory controls,etc..
back side panel has AUDIO OUT and AC cable

ST10 has 2 ways of recording memory section,digital data cassette memory and digital internal memory
cassette deck of left side is not a usual analog recorder,it's a digital data recorder
such kind of digital data recorder often used with early personal computer in '80s
but I have not ever seen used in electronic instruments
usage is almost same as a usual cassette recoder
but you can change the sound while playback(e.g. koto to shakuhachi)
because it just records playing data like sequencer
other recording section is a digital internal memory
it's a simple early digital sequencer
you can record your play by realtime or note,timing separately"