Yamaha KX88 | The gold standard of master keyboards

Yamaha KX88 Master Midi Keyboard from 1984.
One of the really iconic keyboards from the 80s. If you watch a music video from the 80s you can be sure it's there and every professional keyboardist back then used one.

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This KX88 was brought back to Norway all the way from Manny's Music in New York in 1994. I even have the flight case with Manny's logo on it. Got it from the previous owner who took it over here. The flight and the KX88 weighs a ton, I can assure you so no small feat.

A very interesting thing is that in the KX88 manual Yamaha mentions Roland, another manufacturer of keyboards and synths, when showing how to use midi sysex data to control the filter cutoff. As an example. Very rare to find a mention of another brand in manuals like this, especially from the 80s.
Of course I had to try this, hence the Juno-106 segment in the video. It works too. ;-)

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Growing up I listened to so much synth-pop and it's only natural that my own music takes inspiration from many of the acts I loved back then. I still love them and listen to them!

Howard Jones, Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, New Order, Erasure, Thompson Twins, Tears for Fears, The Human League, Propaganda. FGTH, Ultravox, OMD, Eurythmics, Duran Duran, Giorgio Moroder, Jean Michel Jarre, Jan Hammer, Alphaville, A-ha as well as loads of artists doing what is now called Italo Disco. And many more great acts like Nik Kershaw, Spandau Ballet, Wham, Dire Straits ++