Synthesizers

ARP Synthesizer Endorsers of the early 1970s

Stevie Wonder endorses the ARP 2600 in this early 70s advert Billy Preston likes his ARP Pro-Soloist Les McCann and…

13 years ago

Univox-branded Synth+Drums

Billy Preston with a Univox Compac-Piano Univox (brief company history here) was a US company that marketed a huge range…

13 years ago

Electronic Drum Trends of the 1980s

Legendary pop/RnB session drummer Bernard Purdie was apparently the distributor (!) of the MPC line of electronic drums.  Purdie is…

13 years ago

Not what a synthesizer can do, but what a man can do with a synthesizer.

There's a chance that Gold Coast Recorders will soon have a Crumar DS-2 in our synth collection/pile;  researching this Italo-Moog…

13 years ago

ARP Synthesizers Full-Line Catalog 1977

Download the twenty-page c.1977 ARP Instruments, Inc. catalog: DOWNLOAD: ARP_1977_Catalog Products covered, with text, specs, and photos, include: ARP Avatar…

13 years ago

Keyboard accessories circa mid 70s

The ACOUSTIC Model 500 'Keyboard Control Center.' Never seen this piece before.  The original ACOUSTIC amps from the early 70s…

13 years ago

Keys of the 70s

Strings & Things Memphis advert for keyboards circa 1977. Been looking through some mid-70s issues of "Contemporary Keyboard" (h.f. "CK")…

13 years ago

This Is What I Do

I play the keyboards. Images of Rock n Roll Keyboard players circa the mid 1970s.

13 years ago

Star Instruments Synare Electronic Percussion c.1979

Disco-mania.  Behold an early electronic drum meant to compliment your acoustic kit.  The Synare 3.  This caught my eye mainly…

14 years ago

makin’ it

What is goin on here !? The May 1979 issue of DOWNBEAT magazine has a short article on the subject…

14 years ago