[sdiy] Commercial 1v/octave keyboards?

[Tom Arnold]

On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 03:52:53PM -0500, Colin Raffel wrote:
> Sheesh, that one is $$!  Maybe I will have to suck it up and buy a  
> MIDI controller and glue wood to it or something....

Much as I hate to suggest it because its kinda a well kept secret sorta
thing I've done...   Alpha Syntauri Keyboards seem to show up on Ebay
regularly for under $50.  Its a metal top/bottom with wooden end-cheeks and
a Pratt/Reed keyboard assembly.  Pretty well made.  I wouldnt gig with it
though.

People seem to routinely lose the AppleII interface and the sound cards for
the Apple II and are just left with the keyboard.  

Right now there is one on Ebay in Finland for example with a current bid of
around $3 last I looked.

Also, its fairly easy to make a keyboard box and Organs show up all the time
in classifies and places like Craigslist.  While I recommend making sure
that any organ you pick up isnt a collectors piece or doesnt have something
that makes it worth saving, if its a clunker it will usually yield two or
more pratt/reed keyboard assemblies.  Making a nice wooden box isnt hard...

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