From Kenny Balys Sent Mon, Dec 24th 2018, 16:48
These old adverts paint a clearer picture of the answer than words: https://www.keyboardpartner.de/hammond/advertising.htm #1 and #2 :) On 24.12.18 16:42 , A. Horton wrote: > I recently got a CR-8000, and it is absolutely lovely. Along with > other machines I have or love like the TR-77, CR-78, etc. it's > insanely well-designed with the auto-fill functionality, crash cymbal > reserve, etc. > What did the manufacturers really think these were being used for? > What were they designed FOR? Outside of Sly Stone and some more niche > artists, you really didn't hear these things in recorded music. Did > Roland et. al. think that these were being sold purely for practice? > For recordings? For electronic music? For traditional music? For > cocktail acts? >