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Echo Mini Piano!
Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart and Schroeder from Peanuts didn’t have shit on us children of the 80s. We all became instant master pianists when our fingers tickled the plastic on Bösendorfer’s biggest competition: the Electron Echo Mini Piano from Taiwan! The Echo Mini Piano came in a luxurious vinyl case and from what my coagulated pile of brain meat remembers, it was sold in Big Lots-type stores and vending machines. My mom bought mine at the swap meet and I wore that thing out. I played it even when it croaked out warbling, mumbling notes from its battery dying. I squeezed every last sound out of it. I think I went through two or three of them, because I was addicted to the feeling of burning up on the inside as I attacked that piano with my hands like a crazed virtuoso! Or something.
The Echo Mini Piano also came with a little booklet that had history’s most difficult songs in it. Every key on the Mini Piano had a number on it and you’d just hit the number on the book to create art for the ears and soul!
You can still find the Mini Piano on eBay and I am so damn tempted to buy one. And if I do, don’t be surprised if in a few years you see a poster outside of Carnegie Hall that reads: Carnegie Hall Is More Than Proud To Present… Master Echo Mini Pianist Michael K!
Pics: eBay.ca