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Russ Roman
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1/20/2016 8:35:47 PM
Do you have a piece of musical equipment you feel human emotions towards?
like a guitar you love for instance?
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Bryon Tosoff
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1/20/2016 8:42:12 PM
huh, hmm. like I like banging on my piano a lot, I get keyed up around it, it strings me out. yah, my acoustic piano. Yamaha, done most of my recording using it, but also really love the Yamaha grand at blue frog studios ,but it is not mine, but I covet it, is that a sin?
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1/21/2016 2:23:46 AM
uh, I kinda like my skin flute.
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Russ Roman
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1/21/2016 4:19:43 AM
well good thing I guess, it's probably lonely.
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Hop On Pop
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1/21/2016 5:21:26 AM
My 1988 Squire Strat, "Susan."
It was my first guitar of any decent quality and she has served me so very well over the last 25 years. Been modified 9 ways til Sunday, so there is really no other guitar quite like it. Become something of an extension of me.
Although, I have set her aside a bit recently, since getting my new Telecaster last year, every time I pick it up, it feels like coming home.
I would be devastated if anything happened to her.
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Shoe City Sound
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1/21/2016 8:43:23 AM
I genuinely love my little Samick piano in a humanly emotional way. It's the tackiest thing imaginable - white enamel from the 1980's. But it's beautiful to me and I definitely would never have survived some of my scariest mental-ness without it.
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1/21/2016 9:12:52 AM
What, being me?
It's nothing but lonely.
For kicks I hold up my torch
and wait for the lightning to hit it;
(See Diagram)
It's a lonely business being superhuman.
Your only friends are other superhumans,
and God knows there aren't many of them.
Toot. Ah I'm less lonely now.
~L
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SILVERWOODSTUDIO
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1/21/2016 6:57:00 PM
well that would be our old analogue PA---I bought off a famous New Zealand band in the 1980s as they were upgrading. The Amp is a Holden Wasp 400watts (Aussie made) with a powered mixer (8 inputs plus tremelo and reverb)
The speakers are 15 inch JBLs housed in two large bass reflex boxes with 2 horns bass and midrange and tweeters)
We hardly use it for away gigs as it is just so heavy but it takes pride of place in the studio----and has no hiss or other hums etc
I have so many good time gig memories from festivals in the 80s and 90s, and would not consider parting with it, even though last time I moved it I got a hernia!
Now we use a digital Yamaha PA with speakers on poles etc, but it don't have that "Bass" sound
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Richard Scotti
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1/22/2016 7:14:22 AM
I used to be emotionally attached to a vintage Wurlitzer electric piano and I've had some steamy relationships with Fender Telecasters and Strats, Les Pauls, Rickenbackers and some other sexy guitars; I had a long time affair with with a Fender Twin Reverb amp but although I keep in touch with all of these wonderful
lovers, I'm now in a monogamous relationship with an Apple computer which is my orchestra in a box. All kidding aside, I prefer to keep my emotions connected to human beings but I used to be emotionally attached to all of the above when I was younger. People are better than objects.
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Stoneman
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1/22/2016 9:26:07 AM
My Yamaha's (DX7 and DX21 FM synths) are very important to me even though I seldom use them now. The technology is archaic and clearly dated. However, I have been around the world with those keyboards when I played in bands. In the 80's I wrote and recorded some really cool songs with them. That is why they are so special to me. They remind me of key great events of the past.
My Sax and my trumpet are also near and dear to me because they are the first two instruments I learned how to play. I was in a marching band (yeah, band geek stuff) and a jazz band when I was 13 years old. I came down with pneumonia and lost half of my lung capacity. I was then told that I could never play wind instruments again as the strain could possibly kill me. But I loved them so much that I just could not part with them. Every now and then I pull one out (mostly the Sax) and play a solo on one of my songs. Sort of like rolling the health alert dice but I am still alive so maybe the doctors were wrong. I mean, these are the same people that told me I would never sing again also. Go figure!
But if my studio caught on fire and all my stuff burned up, those are the instruments I would cry about. Mainly because they can't be replaced and they have sentimental value for me.
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Jilly
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1/22/2016 11:35:33 AM
No, not really but when we moved into this house the previous owner left behind a very old hand made (he was a woodwork teacher) recorder that I use as a decoration in my music room along with a 12 string guitar with no strings that gives a 1970's feel to the place.
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Paul groover
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1/27/2016 12:17:13 PM
I have an old Fender precision special 1980 red and gold called Leona. I have had it for to many years. I could never sell it i will never get another one like this one
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Allan Kilgour
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1/27/2016 1:01:42 PM
It would be my computer workstation I guess. I write as I record so I regard my pc as one of the most important pieces of musical equipment I have. I guess my Walden Acoustic Guitar would come a close second.
Hey SILVERWOOD who was the famous band you got your equip from?
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Father Time
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1/27/2016 1:10:31 PM
Mine is my candy apple red American Strat. I bought it after selling my baseball card collection for $1000. I intend to be buried with it.
If I had another it was my first Tascam portastudio (4 track). That was buried at sea, threw it in the Atlantic Ocean. heh
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Bryon Tosoff
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1/27/2016 1:16:34 PM
I have a Tascam portastudio as well, good piece ,use it once in a blue. get that analog sound for the piano
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LyinDan
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1/27/2016 4:36:11 PM
I'm assuming those were the cassette versions. I have repaired many Tascam Portastudios. What in the hell are you guys doing throwing them away when you love them? WTF. FT. Don't you know salt water is bad for mechanisms.? Go fishin now!
Kidding. They're obsolete. Cassette mechanisms are in extremely short supply, so don't break yours.
I'm gonna have to say, in answer to the OP's question, pretty damn near everything I've ever had. I hear all the stuff I've sold calling to me even now, why? why? why did you forsake me? Whyyyyyyy? And I'm not kiddin.
I still have some I'll never part with though. My Gretsch Country Gentleman that my Dad helped me buy and I rewired in every possible way, and which resided in my car trunk at college (dammit). My homebuilt 8 channel mixer I built from scratch from the best possible parts I could get at the time (70's). My custom black Tele with Bigsby and white binding that I had Fender custom shop make (70's) which, OK, I got to hard times and sold to a shop and which was snatched up by a Japanese collector who knew it was the first of that type configuration that existed. I still love it, I hope the Japanese guy loves it as much. I'll never give it up in my mind. Hell, I hope my first guitar, a Silvertone Danelectro lipstick pickup still thinks of me the way I still think of it.
Now I'm going to have a good cry.
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