Product Description
This is one of those things I saw and thought we had to check out for sheer oddity value: an early Japanese poetry trainer with data cassette for storing sequences made by the same company who later produced the ST-50/60/100 etc.⠀
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Originally made for Japanese traditional music and dating from around 1980, the cassette deck is for data - whether it could be modified for audio/tape loop use or not we cannot say... It has a digital sequencer and inbuilt speaker.⠀
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It is monophonic with two rows of white square buttons for a keyboard. Just like the Suiko ST-50 this is designed to easily play in a koto-style manner. The japanese scaling means it sounds exotic from the off. It has a choice of three basic sounds: shakuhachi (japanese bamboo flute), koto (japanese harp) and pipe organ. The sounds are warm and evocative. Switches and knobs for tuning, sustain, volume, memory controls, etc. rear panel has the audio output socket. You can either store sequences in the internal memory or cassette and play back from either.
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Originally made for Japanese traditional music and dating from around 1980, the cassette deck is for data - whether it could be modified for audio/tape loop use or not we cannot say... It has a digital sequencer and inbuilt speaker.⠀
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It is monophonic with two rows of white square buttons for a keyboard. Just like the Suiko ST-50 this is designed to easily play in a koto-style manner. The japanese scaling means it sounds exotic from the off. It has a choice of three basic sounds: shakuhachi (japanese bamboo flute), koto (japanese harp) and pipe organ. The sounds are warm and evocative. Switches and knobs for tuning, sustain, volume, memory controls, etc. rear panel has the audio output socket. You can either store sequences in the internal memory or cassette and play back from either.