Of all the categories in all the eBays across the world, surely there's no finer category than 'Analoge Instrumente' on German eBay. It's a treasure trove of goodness, like item #160059220196 - this beautiful Mini Pops preset drum machine, made in 1969 by Keio Electronic Lab, which became Korg. Used by Jean Michelle Jarre (not this actual one) and yours for €99. Elsewhere in 'Analoge Instrumente' right now, item 300055121568 is a great looking bit of weirdo vintage lab/music gear. It looks to me like a delay/reverb, but the seller says it works best as a fuzz box on his Moog. And item 250057054580 is a breathtakingly awesome-looking CRB Computer Band - which seems to be an old drum machine covered in buttons and switches, with two octave keyboard. Sort of like a MonoMachine. There's boards to build a 303 clone, leaflets about Theremins from 1930s Berlin, a super-rare MC-8 Microcomposer... Why can't every eBay category be like this?
thanks a lot for posting this. I was able to identify the mini pops that's bolted to an organ i just tried the other day. That donca matic sounds great! Never thought it was from 1969, i was more thinking of 1979 when i heard it!
ReplyDeletewhooo, I love the computer band !
ReplyDeleteI have an MC-8. I am looking for
ReplyDeletethe mythical cable that attached the
output module to it. Any helpers?
The first entry I saw was a Korg MS2000 R, that isn't an R model and it's not analogue, they are digital.
ReplyDeleteI guess it's the meeting of Korg's first and second lines in some sort of organ accessory. There were a whole bunch of different minipops models without the Doncamatic line name. And the original (non-minipops) doncamatics were fairly huge and had a rotating wheel inside with the various patterns.
ReplyDeleteJarre used the (non-"doncamatic" branded) Korg Minipops 7 which has some peculiar latin sounds that afaik didn't make it into other models.