What is the Oldest Piece of Gear in Your Studio?

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Re: What is the Oldest Piece of Gear in Your Studio?

Post by schmidtc » Thu Jan 28, 2010 5:26 pm

My wife has an old upright from 1910 and I've got a 60's vacuum tube oscilloscope, but for electronic music:

Elk EM-4: <1973
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Re: What is the Oldest Piece of Gear in Your Studio?

Post by n1nj4 » Thu Jan 28, 2010 6:04 pm

Yamaha FS1R.
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Re: What is the Oldest Piece of Gear in Your Studio?

Post by adamstan » Thu Jan 28, 2010 6:29 pm

My oldest keyboard is Yamaha E50 (1977).
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Re: What is the Oldest Piece of Gear in Your Studio?

Post by ronP » Thu Jan 28, 2010 6:45 pm

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CASIO Casiotone MT-70 (from 1982)


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Re: What is the Oldest Piece of Gear in Your Studio?

Post by loungedumore » Thu Jan 28, 2010 7:01 pm

Well the Juno and cat are gone now so that leaves the Roland MC500 Micro composer . It hasn't much use in the last couple years , but back in the day it was this and Impulse tracker running everything . So it still has a special though dusty place in my hart .
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Re: What is the Oldest Piece of Gear in Your Studio?

Post by Cosmosis » Thu Jan 28, 2010 8:31 pm

Roland JX-8P here.

Out of the whole Romannis Motte / Tasha-Yar band set-up it would be Lisous' Korg Mono-Poly and PolySix.
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Re: What is the Oldest Piece of Gear in Your Studio?

Post by Phollop Willing PA » Thu Jan 28, 2010 9:12 pm

My Roland SH1000 - the first Japanese synth made for the masses. (1973)

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Re: What is the Oldest Piece of Gear in Your Studio?

Post by TrondC » Thu Jan 28, 2010 9:53 pm

I have some boss pedals (RV-5 & DD-6), other than that, I guess my ESX is actually the oldest piece at 2003....

used to have a CR-68 that I got just because it was a good deal. 1978 according to VSE
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Re: What is the Oldest Piece of Gear in Your Studio?

Post by vin14 » Thu Jan 28, 2010 9:58 pm

One of my amps/receivers. The one in use currently is a JVC from the mid seventies. Synth wise the DX7 is my oldest start of production wise, though I guess my Juno 106 could actually be older!
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Re: What is the Oldest Piece of Gear in Your Studio?

Post by Scories » Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:46 pm

Univox Minikorg
Crumar Multiman s
Roland Rhythm 77

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Re: What is the Oldest Piece of Gear in Your Studio?

Post by monolith » Fri Jan 29, 2010 12:21 am

Hagstrom Viking 1N - 1971
Univox Super Fuzz - 1971

The oldest synth I have is my SH-2000 -1974

Funnily enough it's also in the best condition!
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Re: What is the Oldest Piece of Gear in Your Studio?

Post by R.L » Fri Jan 29, 2010 1:01 am

Yamaha DX-7, 1983
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Re: What is the Oldest Piece of Gear in Your Studio?

Post by aredj » Fri Jan 29, 2010 2:23 am

Korg 770
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Re: What is the Oldest Piece of Gear in Your Studio?

Post by retrosounds » Fri Jan 29, 2010 3:01 am

My Elka. Not sure of the exact age, but from what the insides say, it's around '82/'83

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Re: What is the Oldest Piece of Gear in Your Studio?

Post by Arturo00 » Fri Jan 29, 2010 6:26 am

If we're talking synths, it's either my multimoog or my jupiter 4. If we're talking any gear, probably my two API 525A's (made sometime in the early to mid 70's).
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