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Rogers Eungblut upright piano
Roland Jupiter 6 analogue polysynth
Roland JX-3P analogue polysynth with PG200 programmer
Waldorf MicroWave rackmount wavetable synthesiser
Casio VZ1 Interactive Phase Distortion digital polysynth
Casio CZ101 Phase Distortion digital polysynth (highly underrated)
Yamaha CX5M music computer - this is what I originally began producing music with, in the Olde Days when Real Men spent days typing in musical notes in step time, saving data to cassette and hoping the data would load back in again... I even played a concert with this machine once! It is now long since retired.
Pedal harmonium - this lovely instrument was used on my debut album Tone Control while I was living in the loft of Michael's Folly.
Hohner Organetta 3 electric reed organ
Melodica (mouth piano)

4 x Guinean dun duns: two kenkeni, one sangban, one dununba
Professional Guinean soloist's djembe
Gambian djembe
2 x Senegalese djembes
African mama djembe
African baby djembe
African tall djembe
African samba drum
Ghanaian kpanlogo
Moroccan boran drum
Syrian daf
2 x Indian tabla
2 x African lollipop drums
2 pairs of bongos (one with injured skin)
LP 11" Compact Conga
2 x Remo Tubanos (10" and 14")
Remo snare drum
Premier drumkit (2 toms, floor tom, kick, snare) - under construction (cymbals+hardware coming soonish)...

9 x Remo fruit shakes (boxed)
3 x LP RhythMix Box Shakers
2 x Rhythm Tech Eggz shakers
2 x Meinl black plastic maracas
2 x Meinl caxixi (basket shakers)
2 x giant African caxixi
3 x medium African caxixi
4 x small African caxixi
3 x African gourd shekeres
4 x Gambian seed pod shakers (huge 40cm dried mangetout that I plucked from African trees!)
2 x Gambian ratatak gourd rattles
Indonesian shaker (labelled 'Kerincing pangi putih')
Ping-pong ball cluster merakas
Assorted jars of seeds, rice, lentils, etc.

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