Members mhuxtable Posted June 14, 2012 Members Share Posted June 14, 2012 Every thread I start about a vintage something gets hardly any replies, but this IS the keyboard forum, so I'll just leave this here.... Got this yesterday...family shot with my Moog Opus 3 on top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Conbrio Posted June 14, 2012 Members Share Posted June 14, 2012 I like vintage gear! It's just that the vintage keyboards I want are way too expensive to buy and service. But who knows--maybe someday I'll pick up a classic Moog, Oberheim, or Jupiter something or other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mhuxtable Posted June 14, 2012 Author Members Share Posted June 14, 2012 A vintage minimoog would be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JeffLearman Posted June 14, 2012 Members Share Posted June 14, 2012 Lovely! Yesterday the Mark II top I ordered for my Mark I came. I'd wanted one of those for decades and finally pulled the trigger. But I never noticed before that the Mark II faceplate is taller than the Mark I faceplate. so there's a gap between the top of the faceplate and the bottom of the front opening in the top. :-( Not sure what I'm going to do to fix that. The Mark II top is higher in general, too -- avoids a problem I'd had with the bottom tonebar buzzing against the top (easily worked around, just pull that corner up). If I had the right tool for the job, I could just take 1/2" off the bottom and it'd be fine, but I'm really not sure how I'd tackle that job without making a botch of it. But it's great being able to use the top of the Rhodes! Mostly, I'll use it for packing and unpacking guitars and keyboards from their cases. I do that a lot, so I'll really enjoy having it. Too bad I don't have a Moog to put there! PS: I just noticed that they changed the erroneous "Input" label to "Output" on the Mark II. About time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Purity_Control Posted June 14, 2012 Members Share Posted June 14, 2012 What Conbrio said. A lot of people here love vintage kit, but the price of most of it now has gone way beyond it's value for what it is/does, and people's means aren;t what they were necessarily perhaps a few years ago. Also it got kind of hyped out for a while... guess everyone is just giving it a rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gribs Posted June 14, 2012 Members Share Posted June 14, 2012 Yer kidding right? I love vintage... as long it belongs to someone else If I had the skills+time+money to maintain it (and also play it the way it should be played) and a place to put it, I would love to have stuff like that. I *do* have some vintage guitar stuff (1981 ES335 and Music Man HD150 amp, a green MXR analog delay, and original Cry Baby wah). The guitar is plug-and-play, but the amp needs some repair/maintenance (probably just some isolation caps need to be replaced). A Music Man amp like mine would probably be really nice with a Rhodes. It is very clean and loud and has 2xElectrovoice 12" EVMs with giant magnets in it (a factory upgrade when I bought it so it weighs a ton). The design has a solid state preamp and a 100 W power amp with 4x6L6 tubes. The sound is quite sweet even at soft volumes... but I am not selling it. Those EVM speakers are awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tspit74 Posted June 14, 2012 Members Share Posted June 14, 2012 Vintage only, for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mhuxtable Posted June 14, 2012 Author Members Share Posted June 14, 2012 Yeah the work and price can be prohibitive....luckily I'm a deal hunter. This came with the lid, legs and sustain pedal, in tune working perfectly....$500 . Hell of a lot more than the $50-100 you could get them for 10 years ago, but still a great price these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DJ RAZZ Posted June 14, 2012 Members Share Posted June 14, 2012 Some of my best teenage memories were dreaming about owning a JX-3P, a Jupiter 6, a POLY SIX, or a DX7. I actually bought a mint condition MONO/POLY for $400 in 1984 and sold it in 86 to fund a DX21. WORST mistake ever. What were we talking about, oh yea I love vintage gear!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Franz Schiller Posted June 14, 2012 Members Share Posted June 14, 2012 I have two vintage organs, a Vox Super Continental from around 67 or 68, and a Farfisa Compact Duo from about the same. I love them a lot, but I found when I was playing the Farfisa a lot, I was wearing out the footages. That is, there is a contact on every key for every footage, and the more I played it, the more of them would stop working. So for the most part I stopped playing them, and stick to my Nord C1. I take them out every once in a while to give em a romp, but put most of the wear and tear on the Nord. Apart from that, I've grown a little weary of most vintage keyboards. I don't like most analog synths except Oberheims and Moogs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members liliththekitten Posted June 14, 2012 Members Share Posted June 14, 2012 I like vintage! I only buy cheap stuff though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members girevik Posted June 14, 2012 Members Share Posted June 14, 2012 Yer kidding right? I love vintage... as long it belongs to someone else Same here. The oldest pieces of gear I have might be my big-box Deluxe Memory Man pedal and my acoustic viola (it's probably not a Stradivarius, lol, but I'm sure it's older than any of my guitars). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JeffLearman Posted June 14, 2012 Members Share Posted June 14, 2012 This came with the lid, legs and sustain pedal, in tune working perfectly....$500 . Hell of a lot more than the $50-100 you could get them for 10 years ago, but still a great price these days. That's a great deal for 5 bills!. Really, you could get them as low as $50? More than 10 years ago, because I remember checking prices in the early 2000's and a Rhodes in good shape was $800 (about the same as now, searching ebay). I do remember putting mine on consignment for $350 in 1985 as I was going to be out of the country for 6 months. It was still there when I got back, which made me happy. I think I have the DX7 (which I loathe) to thank for this. My vintage gear: 1977 Rhodes Mark I 1977 Roland RE-301 Chorus Echo 1928 Steniway M (paid all of $2500 for it! but, it has ... issues) 1960's National LPC (Les Paul Copy -- which nobody seems to know they ever made. It's a cheapie knockoff but a nifty little guitar since I replaced all the hardware. Got 490 pickups for free from a friend.) 1965 Fender Jazzmaster I didn't get any of this stuff to be "vintage", it's just what I got at the time, the bottom three used but in the 70's / early 80's. Oh yeah, I still have my TASCAM 40-4 reel-to-reel 4-track 1/4" multitracking deck: their best. Anyone wanna make me an offer on that? I also have a bunch of old mixers, because I still use them! Vintage gear is way cool, but thank goodness for technology so we don't have to lug it around. I still remember the day I donated my CP70 with great joy, knowing I'd never have to move it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Crazyfoo Posted June 14, 2012 Members Share Posted June 14, 2012 I actually bought a mint condition MONO/POLY for $400 in 1984 and sold it in 86 to fund a DX21. I think we've all made some bad decisions that still haunt us today. When I got off the road in 89 I sold all my gear to one guy (package deal) because I needed money for school. I ended up selling him my mint OB-Xa with MIDI + Anvil roadcase that I bought from the keyboard player of 'Images in Vogue' for $1,000, as he loads up his truck with all my gear he looks in the garage and points at my old Roland SH-5 and says "whats that?" Oh, go ahead, take it, I dont need it!" I rebought the SH-5 in January for $2300 , amd the OB-Xa im still looking for and I know it's going to cost me huge. Fuck I'm stupid! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Conbrio Posted June 14, 2012 Members Share Posted June 14, 2012 I actually bought a mint condition MONO/POLY for $400 in 1984 and sold it in 86 to fund a DX21. WORST mistake ever. Yeah, lots of people ditched their analog gear for some sort of Yammy FM synth back in the 80's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ElectricPuppy Posted June 14, 2012 Members Share Posted June 14, 2012 I love vintage, but not ALL vintage. Not everything from Way Back When was a gem, honestly. But there's certainly some stuff I would love to have, still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DJKeys Posted June 14, 2012 Members Share Posted June 14, 2012 Had, but gone now: Yamaha CP70Prophet-5DX-7OB-8 Still Have: Yamaha KX-5 (original owner)1965 Bach Stradivarius Trumpet, Mount Vernon, mint condAudio Art 4100 Parametric EQ (2)1963 Gibson J-451970 Les Paul CustomKorg WaveStation A/D SN 000563Kawai K-5000S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mhuxtable Posted June 14, 2012 Author Members Share Posted June 14, 2012 That's a great deal for 5 bills!. Really, you could get them as low as $50? More than 10 years ago, because I remember checking prices in the early 2000's and a Rhodes in good shape was $800 (about the same as now, searching ebay). I do remember putting mine on consignment for $350 in 1985 as I was going to be out of the country for 6 months. It was still there when I got back, which made me happy. I think I have the DX7 (which I loathe) to thank for this. My vintage gear: 1977 Rhodes Mark I 1977 Roland RE-301 Chorus Echo 1928 Steniway M (paid all of $2500 for it! but, it has ... issues) 1960's National LPC (Les Paul Copy -- which nobody seems to know they ever made. It's a cheapie knockoff but a nifty little guitar since I replaced all the hardware. Got 490 pickups for free from a friend.) 1965 Fender Jazzmaster I didn't get any of this stuff to be "vintage", it's just what I got at the time, the bottom three used but in the 70's / early 80's. Oh yeah, I still have my TASCAM 40-4 reel-to-reel 4-track 1/4" multitracking deck: their best. Anyone wanna make me an offer on that? I also have a bunch of old mixers, because I still use them! Vintage gear is way cool, but thank goodness for technology so we don't have to lug it around. I still remember the day I donated my CP70 with great joy, knowing I'd never have to move it again. Yeah dude I vividly remember my roommate buying a Rhodes a couple of times for insanely cheap. I also had a Wurlitzer student electric I bought for $50. Roomie also got an 80s Gibson LP Standard for $300 back then those were the days! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members keybdwizrd Posted June 15, 2012 Members Share Posted June 15, 2012 I love vintage... as long it belongs to someone else +1, Same here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members The Pro Posted June 15, 2012 Members Share Posted June 15, 2012 Like vintage? Hell, at 55 I AM VINTAGE !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dave Weiser Posted June 22, 2012 Members Share Posted June 22, 2012 I love vintage boards so much that I've spent literally thousands of hours trying to emulate them in our products. While of course I have to do that for work, I love nothing more than getting to play the real thing. I have a mint CP70 at home, and lots of people at the office have a cool old piece or two... these days we've been playing around with an ARP Odyssey (with the side-car expander) that someone brought in. I think one likely explanation for the low number of replies is simply that the subject of "vintage keys" is not a contentious one. Most on this forum probably agree that vintage keys rule, end of story. Usually threads with lots of replies involve questions, debates or topics that have more of a grey area. Dave WeiserKurzweil R&D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members yorgatron Posted June 27, 2012 Members Share Posted June 27, 2012 craigslist will be my ruin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members xpander Posted June 27, 2012 Members Share Posted June 27, 2012 i hate vintage stuff... it's a bunch of unreliable, flat-sounding crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Crazyfoo Posted June 28, 2012 Members Share Posted June 28, 2012 craigslist will be my ruin. 2nd from the top, is that an SK-20? One of my first keyboards when I was 14 years old. (32 years ago) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Crazyfoo Posted June 28, 2012 Members Share Posted June 28, 2012 i hate vintage stuff... it's a bunch of unreliable, flat-sounding crap. I just offered a guy from the want ads $2500 cash for an OB-Xa, he didnt reply.Some of these guys get their expectations set so unrealistically high.They see one listing on Ebay where 'once' an item sold for a crazy amount, and all of a sudden they thinbk thats the new bench mark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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