That keyboard had some really cool sounds and features! It's generally not all that hard to fix dead keys and if you ever do so for this one I hope you'll record the adventure. Thanks, man!
Thanks for your comment! You’re right, usually it isn’t too hard to fix dead keys, but in these JVC keyboards it’s more difficult, I opened my JVC KB-300 a few years ago to see if I could fix the defective keys, usually you can just take out the rubber contacts which are in strips of around 12 keys worth of contacts on most keyboards, but on JVC keyboards, each rubber contact are individual, and are soldered into place so you can’t just take them out when you take the keyboard apart, you’ll have to desolder them, and carefully solder them back on again in exactly how it was before you take them off. Thanks for watching!
@@KeyboardKrazy49 Ah man, that's a drag! I thought it might be like when I did my Yamaha PSR-510 - a bit of a hassle but mostly isopropyl & Q-tips. Ah well!
I have a JVC i just put in on and no keys r working power is coming on though... I opened it cleaned the contacts of keys board also fixed the contact band from mainboard to keys circuitry but to no avail
I remember having a keyboard similar to this one with so many sliders for the rhythms, and the sounds, the only buttons on the keyboard controled the auto fill ins and the rhythm starts. it also had longer arpedgios as well and had a demo song, the song was "when the saints go marching in". the song was perfect with the sustain effects. I think it may have been a bontempi keyboard
Maybe it was a Farfisa FK-55, it's this one that have the "when the saints go marching in" demo tune. The way you described the controls too matches that keyboard. I still have it :-)
@@mima85 I think it may have been too. I only had one other keyboard at the time as well, the casio SA 75 and I had a yamaha psr 200 which was not mine but what i kept at a relatives house. I miss my farfissa fk55 As i remember messing on it all day when ever i was bored with the casio. I've no idea what happened to it now but will probabally look on ebay for another similar keyboard in the future
Great presentation! This keyboard is probably good for its era. I hope you might even try and present Kurzweil's KP and/or KA series keyboard(s) someday, if you have any chances to acquire.
The rythm section is almost identical to the one in my Farfisa FK-55, both in functions, sounds and rythm patterns. Maybe for this both instruments share the same hardware under the hood. The melodic voices are different tho, on mine they're just plain square or 75% pulse waves with various filter and envelope settings, with some white noise added for the flute sound (like is for yours' flute sound too). They're quite boring, on your JVC keyboard they're more interesting, especially the organs, brasses and string ensembles. Not to mention the chorus effect that on mine is missing, which is actually a quite good analog chorus for a toy keyboard like this. The whole instrument sounds quite good for its class.
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The Jazz Flute sound on this is absolutely fantastic, had one these in I think 1982
That keyboard had some really cool sounds and features! It's generally not all that hard to fix dead keys and if you ever do so for this one I hope you'll record the adventure. Thanks, man!
Thanks for your comment! You’re right, usually it isn’t too hard to fix dead keys, but in these JVC keyboards it’s more difficult, I opened my JVC KB-300 a few years ago to see if I could fix the defective keys, usually you can just take out the rubber contacts which are in strips of around 12 keys worth of contacts on most keyboards, but on JVC keyboards, each rubber contact are individual, and are soldered into place so you can’t just take them out when you take the keyboard apart, you’ll have to desolder them, and carefully solder them back on again in exactly how it was before you take them off.
Thanks for watching!
@@KeyboardKrazy49 Ah man, that's a drag! I thought it might be like when I did my Yamaha PSR-510 - a bit of a hassle but mostly isopropyl & Q-tips. Ah well!
I have a JVC i just put in on and no keys r working power is coming on though... I opened it cleaned the contacts of keys board also fixed the contact band from mainboard to keys circuitry but to no avail
So warm analog voices on these JVCs. I'm looking for a KB-800 but it seems to be a quite rare finding.
I remember having a keyboard similar to this one with so many sliders for the rhythms, and the sounds, the only buttons on the keyboard controled the auto fill ins and the rhythm starts. it also had longer arpedgios as well and had a demo song, the song was "when the saints go marching in". the song was perfect with the sustain effects. I think it may have been a bontempi keyboard
Maybe it was a Farfisa FK-55, it's this one that have the "when the saints go marching in" demo tune. The way you described the controls too matches that keyboard. I still have it :-)
@@mima85 I think it may have been too. I only had one other keyboard at the time as well, the casio SA 75 and I had a yamaha psr 200 which was not mine but what i kept at a relatives house. I miss my farfissa fk55 As i remember messing on it all day when ever i was bored with the casio. I've no idea what happened to it now but will probabally look on ebay for another similar keyboard in the future
Great presentation! This keyboard is probably good for its era. I hope you might even try and present Kurzweil's KP and/or KA series keyboard(s) someday, if you have any chances to acquire.
The rythm section is almost identical to the one in my Farfisa FK-55, both in functions, sounds and rythm patterns. Maybe for this both instruments share the same hardware under the hood. The melodic voices are different tho, on mine they're just plain square or 75% pulse waves with various filter and envelope settings, with some white noise added for the flute sound (like is for yours' flute sound too). They're quite boring, on your JVC keyboard they're more interesting, especially the organs, brasses and string ensembles. Not to mention the chorus effect that on mine is missing, which is actually a quite good analog chorus for a toy keyboard like this. The whole instrument sounds quite good for its class.
Very good and thanks.
this was my first keyboard when i was 15
Are these rare? Any info on the lowrey v-60 model?
Im from Brasil. I have one the sems.
I dont have a cable.
A figure of 8 lead will work perfectly on this keyboard