Lync LN4 Keytar MIDI Controller Keyboard SN 1298805

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LYNC LN4 Rare Keytar Midi Controller

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Lync LN-4 MIDI contoller keytar

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Inside a Vintage Lync LN-4 Midi Keyboard Synthesizer

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Lync LN-4 Vintage Keytar MIDI Controller

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Jan Hammer on TOTP2

YouTube via Xylaquin.

Jan Hammer with Fairlight and...

"Clip of Jan Hammer playing Crockett's Theme on TOTP2"
Update via va69nm: "That ain't no Lync - that's Jan's custom Probe remote keyboard :)"

Hammer & Keytar and Hell Seems Pretty Dope

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Jan Hammer

GTA Vice City Montage III

YouTube via xxxogchris. Lync Keytar at :17. Jan Hammer reference as "Jack Hammer." Kraftwerk
"This is the third montage and probably the last for a while.I'm going to work on GTA 3(my fave) and probably GTA SA."

Jan Hammer, Jordan Rudess & Tony Williams - Miami Vice Theme

YouTube via sysx. sent my way via khoral.
Jan Hammer and the Lync LN-4 Richard Lainhart mentions in this post on the lower cost LN-1000. See the Lync label below for more.

BTW, anyone have any decent images of the LN-4? I did a quick image search on Google and didn't find much. This image is from Vintage Synth.

Update via Richard Lainhart in the comments: "Note that Jan is actually playing a custom version of the LN-4 JH Signature model, which was a variation on the standard LN-4. The JH had, among other modifications, mod and pitch wheels in different positions than the standard LN-4 to accommodate his particular vibrato technique.

What makes this particular JH unique is that it had a wireless MIDI transmitter, making it one of the only wireless MIDI devices in the world then - a big deal in the late 80s. Note that there's no cable coming from his JH.

I still have my LN-4, although it's no longer working; I'll see if I can get some decent pictures of it for you."

Thanks Richard! I'll update this post and put a new one up when I get them.

Jeff Beck - Blue Wind

YouTube via CloudFROST. Lync keytar. via Josh.

"Jeff Beck, Jan Hammer and Simon Phillips playing the classic song "Blue Wind" from Jeff's album "WIRED" 1976"

Update via va69nm: "Hell no! that's Jan playing his custom Probe controller, originally developed by Roger Powell for his gig with Utopia...arguably the original 'keytar,' with respect to Mattson's Syntar and George Duke's Clavitar. Hammer's controller was custom-wired to his Minimoog/Oberheim SEM rig that, per Hammer's own marketing of the day, "sounds a lot like a guitar." Powell's Probe had a different, smaller pitchbend/mod wheel array, whereas Hammer's was modeled with his fondness for the Minimoog's spacing & setup. Hammer played (as did Gary Wright & Steve Porcaro) with a strap-on, cutaway Mini keyboard and experimented with the angle of the pitch wheels by housing them in a separate, adjustable, squarish assembly mounted in place of the traditional pb/mod wheels, until the optimum angle was found; this placement was then implemented permanently on Hammer's probe. Hammer's signature Lync purported to be modeled after his Probe, but the Lync is a MIDI controller, not hardwired analog. Don't take my word for all this, Google is a powerful tool :) Kudos to Jan ( and to Roger!) for going above & beyond, innovating a style of playing remote keyboard and holding their own in rock bands while still looking credible and not gimmicky, that has yet to be equalled, IMHO..."

LYNC LN-1000 JAN HAMMER Keytar

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see the update below
"The most mythical, the most wanted keytar in the world. The keytar which was used (a custom model) by Jan Hammer. It has been nicknamed "The Rolls-Royce of the keytars".

This is not the (inferior) LN-4: this is the next (and improved) model LN-1000.

Much better than the Roland AX-1 / AX-7 and others:
- 49 keys / 4 full octaves (The Roland only has 45 keys).
- Velocity sensitive keys with AFTERTOUCH (Roland keys only transmit velocity).
- Real continuous controller mod/pitch wheels (The Roland only has a very awkward and almost unusable ribbon / D-beam control).
- ...And much more (if you are looking this article, that's because you already know what type of jewel the Lync LN-1000 is, compared to other keytars...)

The original manual and cables are included. It feeds directly from the MIDI port by means of an ad-hoc little box which is connnected both to the electrical plug and the MIDI cable (as I'm not the original owner of the keytar, I'm not sure if this was the default configuration, but I suspect that it was modified in order to allow this MIDI-feeding)."

Update via Richard Lainhart of O-Town Media:
"One comment about this - the LN-4 is actually the superior controller. The LN-1000 was designed to be a lower-cost, less fully-featured version of the LN-4.

For example, the LN-4 had a separate rackmount interface/power supply that provided 4 MIDI outputs; each MIDI output was separately programmable and controllable from the LN-4. The LN-1000 had a single built-in MIDI output, and was battery-powered.

That's not to say that the LN-1000 is a dog; far from it. But it isn't superior to the LN-4. (I owned an LN-4, used to work for Lync, and wrote the manuals for both controllers.)"

Keytar Love

As the image says, "You're Doing it Wrong". BTW this is a Lync LN1000 and it's up for auction along with a ton of other keytars.
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