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Non-bass instruments you wish you owned

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Hmmm, I think I am pretty set with all my stuff...I have everything I need to make records that sound the way I like...but...

I would love to make records on a MCI-JH16 .... but it would also need to have a tech to keep it running!

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I recorded on one of those! probably 3 decades ago. It was ancient and needed maintenance even back then.... but WHAT A SOUND. He pushed the levels and things stuck together like glue and had a compression that was magical, with a special tone in the highs that was wonderful
 
On a more practical note, I do want keys in the home studio. I have a 25 and 49 key controller. I bang out block chords in C and transpose.

I'd love to have a good weighted key digital piano (one with a super good grand and a super good rhodes) of at least 73 keys and one or two manual clonewheel organ with drawbars. I can do strings and horns and stuff on soft synths but those two I want dedicated turn it on and make its own sound keyboards.

But man keys are crazy expensive compared to guitars. I mean you can do any gig on a $500 guitar. And I know that there exist weighted key pianos for $300. But the land between $300 and $3000 is a baffling mystery. And I'm not sure the equivalent of a $500 guitar exists in keyboards.