If you are a musician, specially a keyboard player, there’s an emphasis these days on “the gear”; having the newest gear, what’s the new gear like, what does it give you? You would think from the way people talk in music technology magazines that the instruments play themselves. I think most people believe that.

To get a real perspective you should visit this really wonderful web resource, a kind of electronic music wakeup call. 120 Years of Electronic Music covers the years 1870 to 1990 and shows you lush pictures and gives you a detailed history of every worthwhile cutting edge instrument made in the last 120 years. Makes you wonder why people don’t just play them rather than looking for new stuff all the time.

Well, okay maybe that’s too simple. Perhaps you should remind your muso friends that people who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it. If they don’t get that then maybe you should get smarter friends.

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