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i know this isn't the forum but...
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/beautiful-original-vintage-1974-YAMAHA-GX-1-synthesizer_W0QQitemZ7354713788QQcategoryZ64387QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Yamaha GX1
just wow, is all. (this isn't mine)
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/beautiful-original-vintage-1974-YAMAHA-GX-1-synthesizer_W0QQitemZ7354713788QQcategoryZ64387QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Yamaha GX1
just wow, is all. (this isn't mine)
- michael
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HA!
For $250k (US!!!!!)
I would buy myself a small house near a lake, and still have change for an awesome home studio.....
For $250k (US!!!!!)
I would buy myself a small house near a lake, and still have change for an awesome home studio.....
- Jason Dirckze
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Can I just add to that - hahahaaaaaaaaahahaha you must be #$*@($ kidding. A classic example of what ebay has done to people's brains. There's a reason there's not many around. Could it be because they sound #&$house?
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Chinagraf - Valued Contributor
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[quote="Chinagraf"]Can I just add to that - hahahaaaaaaaaahahaha you must be #$*@($ kidding. A classic example of what ebay has done to people's brains. There's a reason there's not many around. Could it be because they sound #&$house?[/quote]
actually they are meant to be the business. There was a cool article I read online just a few weeks ago about a guy dreaming of owning the GX1 'holy grail' for decades because ABBA had one and some other bloke in some 70's prog band played one and wore a cape or somesuch....
Anyway it was a cool article - the guy found one in eerily familar circumstances to those claimed in this auction (ie. yamaha sent it to oz as a test unit, it got lost in the system and ended up in someones house as a family organ) (weird coincidence?) He was from the uk and paid crazy money to get it shipped.
so yeah... nothing that some 70's prog guy in a cape played is worth $200K US but nevertheless GX1 is meant to be an amazing thing.
actually they are meant to be the business. There was a cool article I read online just a few weeks ago about a guy dreaming of owning the GX1 'holy grail' for decades because ABBA had one and some other bloke in some 70's prog band played one and wore a cape or somesuch....
Anyway it was a cool article - the guy found one in eerily familar circumstances to those claimed in this auction (ie. yamaha sent it to oz as a test unit, it got lost in the system and ended up in someones house as a family organ) (weird coincidence?) He was from the uk and paid crazy money to get it shipped.
so yeah... nothing that some 70's prog guy in a cape played is worth $200K US but nevertheless GX1 is meant to be an amazing thing.
- michael
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I've met Rick Wakeman (he's the tallest prog rock player I know), and he's played lots of synths over lots of years - it don't make them worth US$250k, and he'd be the first to tell you its NOT the gear, sunshine. He could play a Casiotone and make it sound great.
Give me a Prophet 5, a Roland MKS80, crikey even a Korg Polysix and I'd be happier (and less challenged for floorspace). That thing is priced for an hype-gullible collector with too much money and not enough brains. What's Bill Gates' phone number again?
Give me a Prophet 5, a Roland MKS80, crikey even a Korg Polysix and I'd be happier (and less challenged for floorspace). That thing is priced for an hype-gullible collector with too much money and not enough brains. What's Bill Gates' phone number again?
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i remember seeing a dual keyboard synth years ago at music junction in camberwell (vic)
i always thought it was an fm synth?
did yamaha make a dual keyboard fm synth?
the gx1 seems to be analog
pretty funky design
selling from south australia
common mick fess up!
since when are synths worth more than a house
a car sometimes but a house! (albeit a cheap house)
i always thought it was an fm synth?
did yamaha make a dual keyboard fm synth?
the gx1 seems to be analog
pretty funky design
selling from south australia
common mick fess up!
since when are synths worth more than a house
a car sometimes but a house! (albeit a cheap house)
- mark rachelle
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http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/feb00/a ... ahagx1.htm
i've always loved this article. the bit about how he got it into his house is great, reminds me of the Calrec.
i thought these things were valued in the $50-100k ballpark. but there were only about 10 made, and this one (if it's legit!) seems to be as good as they come.
if you were going to do an ebay scam, i don't think you'd be trying it on with a $300,000 item. but who knows.
btw, as an ex-synth player, i've always wanted one.... THOSE SPEAKERS!!!
i've always loved this article. the bit about how he got it into his house is great, reminds me of the Calrec.
i thought these things were valued in the $50-100k ballpark. but there were only about 10 made, and this one (if it's legit!) seems to be as good as they come.
if you were going to do an ebay scam, i don't think you'd be trying it on with a $300,000 item. but who knows.
btw, as an ex-synth player, i've always wanted one.... THOSE SPEAKERS!!!
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wez - Valued Contributor
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speaking of ebay weirdness
check out:
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Neumann-U47-fully-restored_W0QQitemZ7355501656QQcategoryZ64449QQssPageNameZWD2VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
and
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7355502288&sspagename=ADME:B:AAQ:AU:1
then go to my website and check out the photos and text and the bottom of the page.
I re-furbished these mics for a chap in Melbourne, as far as i know they are still there!
want to buy a U47 on ebay??
Rob
check out:
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Neumann-U47-fully-restored_W0QQitemZ7355501656QQcategoryZ64449QQssPageNameZWD2VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
and
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7355502288&sspagename=ADME:B:AAQ:AU:1
then go to my website and check out the photos and text and the bottom of the page.
I re-furbished these mics for a chap in Melbourne, as far as i know they are still there!
want to buy a U47 on ebay??
Rob
Last edited by rob on Wed Oct 05, 2005 2:02 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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rob - TRM Endorsed
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rob wrote:speaking of ebay weirdness
check out:
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Neumann-U47-fully-restored_W0QQitemZ7355501656QQcategoryZ64449QQssPageNameZWD2VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
and
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7355502288&sspagename=ADME:B:AAQ:AU:1
then go to my website and check out the photos and text and the bottom of the page.
I re-furbished these mics for a chap in Melbourne, as far as i know they are still there!
want to buy a U47 on ebay??
Rob
Hi Rob,
I'd report that to eBay fraud. if he's stolen photos of your website, then it's an obvious misrepresentation - they've even stole your text!?! Who knows, you may save some poor b@stard the $3,000+ that he/she might handover.
I've had a photo stolen before to represent something on eBay, they do follow it up and remove it.
Chris
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For GX1 madness...see the Movie Blade Runner. I think Vangelis did use this (and NOT DX7 as speculated) and also the Yamaha CS80
It is indeed a great, vintage synth, but Soooo....not worth 250k!
(Sorry, the synth geek in me is coming out...)
It is indeed a great, vintage synth, but Soooo....not worth 250k!
(Sorry, the synth geek in me is coming out...)
- Jason Dirckze
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GX1
Ah,
i remember the days (in another life) when i was the keeper of a gx1 for nearly two years.
yamaha australia had one at their sydney office and i asked if i could have it, as no one wanted it at the time.
they eventually asked for it back for a concert at the opera house, but i used it for recording jingles and occasionally played it live. it weighed about half a ton (literally) but sounded fantastic. nearly killed the band members lugging it around.
i believe it went to st joseph's colege, hunter hill for virtually nothing and i have no idea where it went. i think $200,000 US is a bit over the odds. keith emerson sold his for nothing like that, and john paul jones gave k.e. his for nothing to use as a spare.
i remember the days (in another life) when i was the keeper of a gx1 for nearly two years.
yamaha australia had one at their sydney office and i asked if i could have it, as no one wanted it at the time.
they eventually asked for it back for a concert at the opera house, but i used it for recording jingles and occasionally played it live. it weighed about half a ton (literally) but sounded fantastic. nearly killed the band members lugging it around.
i believe it went to st joseph's colege, hunter hill for virtually nothing and i have no idea where it went. i think $200,000 US is a bit over the odds. keith emerson sold his for nothing like that, and john paul jones gave k.e. his for nothing to use as a spare.
- headman
while on the subject of wow, I just used my brauner for the first time in a proper session........! it is WOW!!!!!!!!! I used it through an amek CIB on a female singer.......
It not a u47, but it is still wow
sorry to hijack the thread just wasnt expecting it to be that good.
It not a u47, but it is still wow
sorry to hijack the thread just wasnt expecting it to be that good.
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