eBay of the day: Webcor Music Machine

eBay article #7379222081 is an impossibly cool Webcor Music Machine, not unreasonably billed as the first ever analogue workstation. It's a Japanese-made organ with a drum machine, built-in tape deck, mixer, VU meters, FM/AM tuner (insert geek joke about FM capabilities). Best of all, it has a microphone hidden in the tip of the aerial (like the listing says: "a super SPY accessorius") The Webcor brand has an interesting history, having been used on the first American wire recorders after WWII. This marvel has six days to go, and just $41... More pics of another Webcor at CDM, and previous keyboard hybrid delights here and here. (Thanks, Thomas)
UPDATE: 12 hours to go, and it's already up to $316...

Posted by Tom Whitwell.

Comments:

shame - i immediately thought that the brand / company name was based on the famous captain beefheart lyric (from "little golden birdies") but it's just a simple concatenation.

# posted by

Phil : 1:43 am

That unit reminds me of something similar [1] that I saw in a window on Haight Street in San Francisco a few months back.

The Silver Star Solid State Organ Radio Phonograph.

[1] http://flickr.com/photos/pheezy/58377009/

# posted by

pheezy : 3:07 am

Wow, that eBay link just set the world record of URL redirecting...

# posted by

Anonymous : 7:17 am

it looks a bit like a Korg Microkorg! :)

# posted by

Ezequiel : 11:26 am

obvious photoshop.

# posted by

Anonymous : 7:34 pm

"obvious photoshop."

Including the other pictures at CDM? Pretty impressive work, that...

# posted by

Tom Whitwell : 11:04 pm

obvious internet humour?

Anyway, ... I want one!!!!

# posted by

cemenTIMental : 8:08 pm

this thing is amazing, i would love to have one , bidings will go to the roof!!!!!!!!!!!!
maybe the hundreds of bucks!???!
hope to see samples on the net, or ebay
or more pictures.

# posted by

Anonymous : 1:07 pm

A freind of mine has one of these things, it's nothing special, you only have a choice of 8' or 4' stop for the organ (not both), a few generic cheesy rhythms, can't play along with the radio as it won't run at the same time as the instrument sounds. It sounds a whole lot better when it's going thru his VCS3 though...
Fred from Vancouver BC, where there's lots of wierd asian stuff!

# posted by

Anonymous : 1:30 am

guet a life dud! you are patetic ,this is the next optigan ,your friend have a webcor? lucky him !!
plus a VCS3!!!.... please, I guess he is not so dumb like you.
minimazing cool machines just show your little selfstime.
amen

# posted by

Anonymous : 1:21 pm

"you only have a choice of 8' or 4' stop for the organ (not both), a few generic cheesy rhythms, can't play along with the radio as it won't run at the same time as the instrument sounds"

Sound like its ripe for bending then.

# posted by

Dan : 4:22 pm

if you look the auction grossed at over five hundred dollars......talk about cognitive dissonance...I love the damn thing even more now; long live ebay!

# posted by

Anonymous : 10:26 pm