(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…

Some teenagers dream about cars. I can’t remember how I found out that Long & McQuade North was selling one of these, because I lived in Peterborough at the time,…