Cordovox electronic piano
Limitations always serve as inspiration.
Quickly expanding to multi-keyboards and this was the second keyboard I acquired and gave me percussive piano sounds to go with the organ sounds of the Farfisa. As a basic electronic piano, it allowed mixing of brighter 'Harpsichord' sound with the mellower 'Piano sound.' It was reasonably light and inexpensive at around $200 in 1976.
When running through the sleek, two-channel Yamaha TA-20 amp the cool part of using this keyboard became adding reverb and tremolo.
Tremolo gave me a pretty decent quasi-synthesizer pulsing sound, almost like a square-wave LFO. Or at least I imagined so.
I set the Cordovox piano on top of the Farfisa and was instantly a Keyboard Player with a Keyboard Setup. Band members were suitably impressed. As I recall, this piano may have had rudimentary velocity sensitivity which allowed dynamic playing.
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