The accordeon: Walther commodore with midi .
I have a new hobby: playing the accordeon.
I bought a 120-bas Walther accordeon, which is equipped with Midi !
It has 4-voices (=in combinations selectable by 10-registers), and 3-basses.
A rather impressive instrument to start with:
With midi expander: Hohner XE9 .
At the beginning I used an Yamaha TX81Z expander.
Very handy for excercises while the children are asleep
(and probably also the neighboors migh appriciate not having to listen to all excercises). Nice sounds in this
expander, but for me an accompianiament was missing....
And then I found a unique instrument: Hohner XE9. It is a 'organ in a box'. So, an organ, but then without keys. With the advantages of the analog organs: drawbars!!!, as well as with the advantages of the digital organs: several banks with voices, to be assigned to different midi channels or overlayed to a single midi channel. And, in the dark, it can perform a reasonable christmas tree: approximately 300 red LED's will glow up the room.
And yet a keyboard: Yamaha PSR340 .
Although this keyboard is somewhat outdated,
I still use this one as either expander because the rythms in this keyboard have little bit more modern style.
Or else, I use it as master keyboard and connect it then to the Hohner XE9. Then the sound is similar to
a big theatre organ or a church orgen. Even the real Hammond sound is possible by setting/enabling the drawbars.I would rather exchange this keyboard with a newer one> E.g. PSR3000 or Tyros. But well, the budget....
Digitech vocalist workstation
For the special effects, I have a vocalist workstation. Mostly used to generate a singing ensemble
from my own voice. But also used for its superb reverb and delay.Also very useful to empower some other solo instruments. For example the panflute of my daughter.
And somewhere, the sounds come together... Digitech Mixer 1202FX
Ofcourse the sounds from the different instruments need to be mixed up before feeding them to the amplifier.
I use a Digitech 1202FX. A small yet useful machine. And the built in FX signalprocessor
allows to make direct studio recordings and/or provides proper mixing for shows.All equipment together:
My first show-off with the accordeon:
The choir of my daughter needed a fill-in conductor. I took the job seriously...
Photo while playing during a private party
