This unit is a good example of the tyranny of being a collector. Say you’re just skimming through the Buy and Sell, and you see some idiot selling a Fender…

(Continued from Fender Rhodes) Then, at the worst possible moment, you find a Wurlitzer. It costs almost as much as both the Rhodes put together. But you haven’t received the…

Nine years after I first decided that I wanted this synth I found one languishing in a used keyboard department for $1200. I don’t think the staff knew it had…

I was looking balefully at this accordion through a pawn shop window one day when my wife and I were out for a stroll. This was just before my birthday….

One morning I woke up and had to have a melodica. I think I’d been listening to Donald Fagen or something. Comes with flexible tube, a little music stand that…

In 1996 my rig consisted of a TG77 controlled by an S-50. I was getting pretty sick of the sounds, and wanted one keyboard that I could throw under my…

One of many examples of how good your life can be if you marry the perfect woman. Lynne is not a musician, but she keeps her eye out for interesting…

In 1990, before analogue keyboards made their big comeback, sales of the first commercially-available MIDI to CV converter bottomed out, because everyone who needed one (and could afford one) had…

Speaking of musical adding machines, the VL-Tone was my first digital keyboard. And it was also a calculator, so I had an excuse to take it to school with me….

I suspect that my days of buying things for cheap from people who don’t know what they have are over, because I’ve already had more than one lifetime worth of…