MATRIXSYNTH: RARE KAWAI MEMORICORDER MC-1 WITH ORIGINAL MANUAL SN 331021



Sunday, June 10, 2018

RARE KAWAI MEMORICORDER MC-1 WITH ORIGINAL MANUAL SN 331021

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Never seen one of these before.

Note the "Digital Excellence" DX  logo on the left.  The DX is in Yamaha font. The red orange stripe is reminiscent of Roland.


Update: You can find one sitting on top of a Kawai DX800 Digital Organ in this video. Considering the name, I am again curious if there is any relation to Yamaha. I checked Wikipedia and found the following:

"Koichi Kawai, the company founder, was born in Hamamatsu, Japan in 1886. As the son of a wagon maker, Kawai developed an ability to create mechanical devices and inventions as young boy. His neighbor, Torakusu Yamaha, a watchmaker and reed organ builder, noticed Koichi riding past on a unique pedal-driven cart he built himself. Impressed, Yamaha, who was struggling to build his first upright pianos, took the early-teenager in as an apprentice. While just a young man, he became a key member of the research and development team that first introduced pianos to his country. He proved to be a gifted inventor who became the first to design and build a complete piano action in Japan. He was awarded many patents for his designs and inventions.[1]"

Fascinating bit of synth history.

Update2 via swissdoc: " With a bit of Google I could spot this document in French, which reveals the function of it

It is to store registration settings of the organ. It can save to magnetic card. Thats it. Nothing fancy."

1 comment:

  1. Well, 'D' just stands for Digital, the DX-800 was the first digital organ released in 1981 (the Yamaha DX-7 came out in 1983). Yamahas 'DX' logo is made from horizontal lines, while these outlined font was just modern in the beginning of the computer age. The Memoricorder is the preset memory unit for the organ, allowing to store registrations.

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