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Hi,
First of all this may not be right place to be asking about this keyboard...please redirect me if I have got it wrong
Just picked up a KR-100 Roland keyboard in Brisbane real cheap.
I have downloaded a manual but cant find a lot of info about this midi LA synth keyboard...like approx manufacture date?
I will probably be selling it but need to get some more info to correctly describe it.
Seen one for sale in Asia for $275 USD, one for sale in USA for $475 USD but apart from that cant find any completed sales on ebay.
Cant find any youtube videos except one without sound????
I am actually a guitarist but I got to say the tones and functions of this keyboard are great.
Hope someone can let me know a little more of the history of this keyboard and whether or not it holds favor with KB players.
It appears to be a "road" version...not a timber home style one.
Hope someone can enlighten me.
Cheers,
Noel

PS. Read the manual that I downloaded and found it is dated 1990 and it also says that the KR-100 uses the same LA synthesis (LA sound) as their professional D series keyboards so this would date the KR-100 from around 1988 to 1990 I suspect.
Also found a label underneath the keyboard ...no date but Made in Italy!!!!!

I consider myself to know of quite a lot of Roland synths and have never heard of it. My guess is it's quite rare but still not worth much, just a forgotten digital relic from the past.

Made in Italy, well thats weird for Roland, but fits with it being quite rare - Italian synths aren't all that commonplace.

Never seen one either, must be a bit of badge engineering from Seil, I thought that only ARP and Sequential did that.

Here is the brief description of this keyboard 61 velocity sensitive keys, 64 preset tones being Piano, Strings, Organ, Guitar, Brass, Mallett, Synth, Reverb x 3 Room, Hall, Delay, Special Effects, Pitch bend and modulation lever, melody and chord intelligence, Drums, Switchable keyboard velocity, Midi, takes TNSC1 style cards, Stereo outputs and headphone, Stereo inputs, Sustain pedal, 3 inbuilt loudspeakers (L/R & Bass), uses the D series LA synthesis same as Roland D-50.
Cheers,
Noel

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jan05/a ... roland.htm

suggests 1990 as the date of the KR100.

Hi there,

I think I saw the op selling this on ebay...no ??

BTW is this Steve (Mr Yamaha ) Smith ??

Cheers

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[quote="NYMo"]Hi there,

I think I saw the op selling this on ebay...no ??

BTW is this Steve (Mr Yamaha ) Smith ??

Cheers

N
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M
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Hey Nymo, I wonder the same thing everytime I see the signature....

No. Not Steve Smith from Yamaha.

No that would be Steve Lincoln Smith, formally of Yamaha, now of Innovative Music.

NYMo wrote:Hi there,

I think I saw the op selling this on ebay...no ??

BTW is this Steve (Mr Yamaha ) Smith ??

Cheers

N
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M
O

Has not been on ebay to my knowledge....replaced a broken key and now sold privately however.
Cheers,
Noel