This is the Hing Hon EK-001, a tiny musical keyboard from the ’90s that looks like a toy, but has a very interesting sounding squarewave tone generator, making it sound very much like the sound chip in a Commodore 64 or Atari 8-bit computer. More info here:

http://weltenschule.de/TableHooters/HingHon_EK001.html

My favorite sound on it is the “horn” sound, the last one shown in the video — the intermodulation distortion between the two voices is really thick and massive sounding for such a small keyboard. The video I made was originally much longer, including me playing around instead of just running through the demo song, but my video capture card screwed it up. I’ll have to record another video of it.

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No Parking on the Dance Floor; 1983.

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Midnight Star used a Roland SVC-350 Vocoder and also a flute in this live performance.

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Here is the first one, it costs $179.99

http://www.yamaha.com/yamahavgn/CDA/ContentDetail/ModelSeriesDetail.html?CNTID=556709&CTID=205000

And here is the second one, it costs $339.99

http://www.yamaha.com/yamahavgn/CDA/ContentDetail/ModelSeriesDetail.html?CNTID=5028521

Is the second one really worth the extra money?
Thanks.

ok so.. the advantage of the second on is it has an octave and a half more keys than the less expensive one. the more expensive one has a mod wheel and the cheap one doesn’t. if you are a beginer i suggest buying the cheaper of the two because the 61 keys of the cheaper piano iwill be more than sufficient for what you will be learning. as for the sound quality they are THE SAME!!! So my advice is go for the second one and make sure to also buy a sustain pedal like this one

http://accessories.musiciansfriend.com/product/Studiologic-PS15-Sustain-Pedal?sku=701308&src=3WFRWXX&ZYXSEM=0&CAWELAID=26048304

or this one

http://accessories.musiciansfriend.com/product/MAudio-Sustain-PedalSP2?sku=703613

I have the second one and it is just as good as expensive ones.

good luck and make sure you learn songs that you like, for that is the key!