#sampling keyboard

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As a kid we had so much fun with this keyboard. It had a built-in speaker which meant you could play back any sound out loud, moments after your sampled it. And you could sample any sound at any moment, because it also had a built-in mic. Endless fun.

We lived in Toronto at the time (this was 1985) but I think we must have been visiting our old home in New Jersey one summer, and brought the SK-1 with me. I remember one evening we sampled our own voice making a growl sound, (that was pretty scary all by itself) but then played it back on the low octave keys, which changed the pitch of the sound so it sounded like some kind of massive monster. We then stood outside the open windows of friends and their families on a hot summer evening, and terrified them with monster sounds. This was New Jersey afterall, with the legend (that still scares some people) of the Jersey Devil, who lurks in the New Jersey Pine Barren forests.

Later I'll tell another story about the Jersey Devil, which is why, by the way, their hockey team is called the Devils

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Detail of Casio SK-1