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JMJ's midi controller used for Houston/Lyon for Sale!!!!!!!!


Post Posted Sun Jun 10, 2007 8:36 pm
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Why up for sale now? :roll: Does Jean Michel need the money or has he got so many keyboards that he needs room to store his new ones? :P
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Post Posted Sun Jun 10, 2007 8:39 pm
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I don't think JMJ has it :P I guees it was the same with some of his other custom controllers. There was a funny story about The Meuble also.
Post Posted Sun Jun 10, 2007 8:41 pm
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I prefer his custom-painted KX5 or laser harp, for midi-controller :P
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Post Posted Sun Jun 10, 2007 8:45 pm
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This keyboard was used for Houston and Lyon, and then, it went in a city near to Tours, in 1987, so ;)
That was 20 years ago ! It is lying around in this place since 20 years !

Either the persons owning it was a fan, but I don't think so, a fan would have kept it in mint condition, or he is only someone of the crew.
I have his cellphone, I'll try to give him a call as soon as Oliver is here ;)
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Post Posted Sun Jun 10, 2007 8:52 pm
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Yes that would be good. :D
There is a mystery here that needs to be investigated. :P
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Post Posted Sun Jun 10, 2007 8:54 pm
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Anyway, this is still a very nice found and it almost reveals what happened to it after the concerts. I guess many fans have thought about it :?
Post Posted Sun Jun 10, 2007 8:56 pm
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Oh yeah, many many, but something is teasing me, really.
If THIS happened to THAT ONE, what about Circulaire 2 ??!!! :|

I hope the same didn't happen for it !!
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Post Posted Sun Jun 10, 2007 9:54 pm
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Equinoxe5 wrote:Of the 3 images I have posted, the middle one (looking down on Jarre), this is from the 'Concert De Images' book and credited as "Houston", but is has no black keys and no 2nd step on the keyboard casing. The 3rd image is of Jarre testing the keyboard in Houston (daylight) you can see the 2nd step and the black keys. So, does this mean the Houston image (2nd one I posted) been mislabeled in the book, meaning it should be Lyon instead of Houston.
The "Rendez-Vous Lyon"-version of this keyboard has two computerscreens on the left and the right! The "Rendez-Vous Houston"-version has the light-up things at one side... :wink:

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Post Posted Sun Jun 10, 2007 10:00 pm
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Aw man time/someone hasn't treated that one well... but I've never really cared about the Houston/Lyon gadgets... hell, I'd still want the portable Circulaire (Docklands and PLD... both were cool) and the big one too... hehehe :punch:
Post Posted Sun Jun 10, 2007 10:01 pm
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But then again the computer screens where probably just some atari monitors placed on it. They were seen everywhere on stage, the other simmonsdrumpad shaped lights where probably also external units but one of them can also bee seen on the pictures of the newly taken pictures.
Post Posted Sun Jun 10, 2007 11:17 pm
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Nico_Noyau wrote:Yes, but he says "will go to the persons who give the most".
I can give 200€...
200 € for that ... thing? It's not even a musical instruments :punch:
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Post Posted Mon Jun 11, 2007 12:32 am
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1 million euros is LOL. It was constructed by on site carpenters.. you can actually see that in one of those making-of documentaries.

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Post Posted Mon Jun 11, 2007 7:24 am
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Looking at it yesterday, it does look like the real thing, but the way it operates is very amateur and pathetic. I saw very very cheap push to make switches under some of the keys (little red buttons) which are very prone to either not operating on keypresses or just breaking up in general. Hmmmm.... I smell DIY.
Post Posted Mon Jun 11, 2007 11:52 am
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Christophe wrote:
Equinoxe5 wrote:Of the 3 images I have posted, the middle one (looking down on Jarre), this is from the 'Concert De Images' book and credited as "Houston", but is has no black keys and no 2nd step on the keyboard casing. The 3rd image is of Jarre testing the keyboard in Houston (daylight) you can see the 2nd step and the black keys. So, does this mean the Houston image (2nd one I posted) been mislabeled in the book, meaning it should be Lyon instead of Houston.
The "Rendez-Vous Lyon"-version of this keyboard has two computerscreens on the left and the right! The "Rendez-Vous Houston"-version has the light-up things at one side... :wink:

Greetzzz...
The computor screens were for the Fairlght which can be seen to the right of the keyboard

Looking at it this morning, the black keys seem to have been attached using small hinges, and did nothing other than make the keyboard look like a keyboard (black & white keys)
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Post Posted Mon Jun 11, 2007 1:23 pm
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I don't even think that this is a MIDI-CONTROLLER at all. I saw the little buttons and I'm pretty sure that these red buttons are just the contacts for the light from the keyboards, and nothing more. If you see Jarre "playing" on it at the concerts in Houston and Lyon, than is it very obvious that this unit is just a show thing and not a musical instrument. I was pretty sure of this the first time that I saw rendezvous houston 20 years ago.







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