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If you hadn't, I would have. . . . As it is, I am entirely satisfied with @ash's old E-MU Classic Keys.

Nowadays, even the ABSRM syllabus is not entirely classical. For Grade 3, students have 48 pieces to choose from. I am learning Henry Mancini's Moon River, and a simple ragtime piece from the 1950s. And, I confess, the entirely classical Chanson Italienne by Tchaikovsky. There is also a choice of Joni Mitchell (Both Sides Now), something from Oliver, a piece from Spirited Away, the Muppet Show theme, and Can You Feel the Love Tonight from the Lion King. Admittedly, even this is not really cutting-edge and modern, but they are recognisable tunes (well, not when I play them, but you get my drift).

@Mediocre Polymath bought a mandolin off of me, coming to my gaff to pick it up. Lovely chap, easy sale - and more space for me!

I had one of those, until about 11:30 this morning, when it was bought by @Mediocre Polymath. He was so pleased with it, and played it so well, that I nearly offered to buy it back from him! In other news, lots of basschatty mandolin updates can be found here https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/327383-i-fancy-a-mandolin/page/2/#comment-4879070

That makes sense: sell the item into its home market, and people recognise and favour that brand, and pay a premium for it. An update: I spoke with the seller, and asked him whether the pedalboard was indeed a Midi item. "It's Midi, and it's not Midi". I think that he saw anything with multi-Pin connector, which can be plugged in, as a type of midi. I have put it down to a lack of expertise, rather than willful deception (although he used to run his own music shop, so he should know better). The item is unused - it is New Old Stock - and had a retail price of about £300. Given the above, I am happy to have the item to either resell, or to retrofit with a midi module. (Or even, shove it up in the loft for my children to rediscover when I am dead!) One can purchase a midi retro-fit kit from Doepfer, and turn a normal pedal board into a midi trigger device: 1. Doepfer midi module https://www.thomann.co.uk/doepfer_mbp25_elektronik.htm 2. Doepfer Panel https://www.thomann.co.uk/doepfer_mbp25_frontplatte.htm 3. Connection cable https://www.thomann.co.uk/doepfer_connection_cable_pd_3.htm 4. The manual https://doepfer.de/pdf/MBP25_Manual.pdf The manual will hopefully give me enough information to guide me. Oddly, the usual sources of information (YouTube and Redditt) are silent - I haven't yet found detailed advice on installing an MBP25.

This is what I ended up with - the turntable sounds great and Mrs Dinger and I are enjoying our vinyl collection again. I had forgotten (or perhaps not realised) how lifelike an LP can sound. Dual 505 > Arcam Alpha 9 > Gale speakers on Atacama stands. And an IKEA "HiFi Rack". It brings me great joy.

Yes, this is probably the best way to do it, and consistent with precedent. I bought a bass guitar in bits, with a damaged neck in 2022; paid to have a new neck made in 2023; and paid to have the bass rebuilt in January 2024. The latter two actions were repairs (and allowed), so I was only out once, for the initial purchase in 2022 (rather than out on the day when the bass was completed and playable).

If those pedalboards are genuinely rare and desirable, then it would be a shame to hack it about, even to modify it for the more useful midi configuration. However, I don't see any for sale on-line, and the matching keyboard is perhaps 35 years old now - so they are either super-rare, or so obscure that they are no longer wanted by punters. I am impressed that you managed to find a clear photo of the rear panel!

https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/457140-doepfer-mbp25-midi-bass-pedals/ This thread touches briefly on the subject of adding midi capabilities to a pedal board. And of course, the pedals will (should) already have electrical contacts (on-off switches), so I won't need to add magnetic reed switches.

So, do I have a mis-sold item that allows me to request a refund? Or an inexpensive, neat and tidy pedal board to which I can easily retrofit a midi device? Let me sleep on this question...

Do they do Gibson 335-type guitars? Asking for a friend...

I just found the circuit diagram for the 6 pin DIN input to its host keyboard. I am none the wiser, and £21 poorer. I am guessing that this is not a midi foot pedal. However, I am still positive: I may be able to fit some magnetic reed switches and a midi signal generator device into the pedalboard.

I recently won an eBay auction for what was labelled as an Elka organ pedal board. Those of you more observant than I was, will have spotted that it has a 6-pin male midi plug, rather than the traditional 5-pin male midi plug. A little research suggests that there is no such thing as a 6-pin-DIN female to a 5-pin-DIN plug, so I need to create a 6-to-5 converter. And a little more research suggests that it is not an Elka pedal board that the seller advertised, but a General Music model, perhaps a GEM WS2 Keyboard Workstation add-on, made in Italy ( see here I was considering taking the 6-pin output of the footpedal and connecting it to a 5-pin, using two sockets (6-pin, and 5-pin) and a box to mount them into, and 3 lengths of wire to solder to the tags. However, without knowing what signals the 6-pin outputs, I can't do that. Can anyone advise?

Thankfully, @neepheid is in charge this year, so, fill your sparkly silver platform stage-wear boots!

"Classic rock radio stations play all 60 classic hits for people in their 70's and 80's" Fixed it for you . . . .

Sliced Ham tastes better in a sandwich when it is all crumpled and rumpled up, rather than laid flat.

I went out in a blaze of glory on 31st December 2025. A 13-note midi pedal board, won on eBay at 4:40pm and a Roland FP-30X piano ordered online at 9:20pm.

Is that because you already know how to spend more?!

I am in for both Tier 1 and 2 - simply because I reckon that purchased everything that I needed (or wand) in 2025. And, of course, because it's terrific fun to try to abstain. More seriously, it also makes me consider whether I really need an item. I am in. Oh yes.

I have now! For £21, which feels like a bargain (until I add the cost of the rail trip to Neath....)

Not yet purchased it, but I am exploring other options. Ideally, the seller will realise that the market in Neath for midi pedal boards is limited, and will instead offer postage. Certainly, that's what I asked him for. Encore! Encore!! One more song, ideally at about 4pm on Wednesday....

@ash is selling a module which replicates the organ sound, here. You can connect it via MIDI-din, and use the Line In on your Yamaha PF-85 to amplify the sound. As for your next piano, I would suggest that you try before you buy. With your real acoustic piano, and your old but worthy Yamaha PF-85, your standards and requirements will be high. Certainly, I would suggest that you go for something better than what you have now, rather than a sideways move.

Can anyone help with an Ebay purchase, for an item in Neath? It's a 13-bass pedal board, and the seller is offering Buyer Collects only. Is anyone close enough to Neath to pick it up and pack and post it to me, in return for payment for your expenses, time, and trouble? Alternatively, are there couriers that could help me?

I will try both options, and see which works, and report back. If both work, then that would be good news too. I must confess to being fascinated by midi when it first came out, and wanted nothing more than to connect up various devices. However, it is only now, 45 years later, that I have the opportunity to make it happen.

https://ebay.us/m/5E9p3T "Handmade bass bass. New. Now you can not only tune a guitar but you can also tuna fish. Body of the guitar is handmade out of solid oak. Large mouth bass graphic. Glass eye. Constructed with all new parts including neck, strings, pickups, and knobs." $50,000 is a lot to pay for a pun.