Any idea What Keyboard/s Sun Ra used?

[bogey_j]

i'm pretty ignorant when it comes to keyboards & synths (i'm mostly a guitar guy), but lately i've been looking to purchase one. I just want one that sounds something like this to make crazy space sounds on

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqWPl0AexnA

[Yoozer]

That's not so much the instrument but more the player and having it go through a boatload of effects.

 

I think that's a Yamaha YC-20D combo organ - but I'm not sure.

 

Space sounds? Why of course, that's possible too - just buy a nice modular synth here: http://www.synthesizers.com/

[Ed A.]

In addition to the combo organ, he also used a Minimoog:

 

 

http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/2006/03/sun-ra-interview.html

[zxcvbnm098]

Actually a YC-30. The 30 was the best of the single manuals, and the only single manual to have the tilt stand. They also made a YC-45D that was the top of the line double manual, and it also had the tilt stand.

 

On a interesting side note, the YC-30 is the organ they used on the Steely Dan song "Do It Again" for the weird but oh-so groovy organ solo.

[Chando]

Crumar DS-2

[Chando]

the freekout in that clip sounds like a Yamaha organ set to a percussive sound.

[suitandtieguy]

"whatever was around" would be my answer.

[Roy Brooks]

 

That's not so much the instrument but more the player and having it go through a boatload of effects. I think that's a Yamaha YC-20D combo organ - but I'm not sure. Space sounds? Why of course, that's possible too - just buy a nice modular synth here: http://www.synthesizers.com/

 

 

That is my YC20.

[bergstrom7377]

That instrument below the early Minimoog is an R.M.I. Rocksichord electric piano.