Casio

One of the Casiotone series of early home keyboards borrowed from a friend of a brother. I don't remember what you could do to modify the preset voices. Very little I think. There was a 'fill' button for the rhythms and you could split the keyboard to make the bottom half play one-touch chords or arpeggios. Wisely CA avoided these features. Is Mother Invisible? made full use of them. (GG)

The Mystery of the CA CAsio
The CA Casio was borrowed, as was the Bristow Organ (Ben’s Korg MS10 and the Bontempi organ were the only keyboards the band owned), but in both cases made freely available to us and both commonly used on our recordings. The Bristow Organ has been identified as to make and model, but something curious has happened regarding the Casio. I was the one who borrowed it, and I was the one who played it most often, including recording a few solo things on it, and I have what appears to be a fairly clear memory of it. It was black, had two speakers at either end of the console, a number of slide controls to the left of the console, and a number of turquoise instrument buttons running across the bottom of the console just above the keyboard (we used “harpsicord” most often, as featured on “Do You Remember The War?”, included on the 2025 Electronic Sound magazine CD compilation Cold War Music). The curious thing is that our machine must have been made in 1981 or early ’82; that is, it was a very early model. But as I scan images of Casios of the early 1980s I find nothing that resonates at all with my memory. The machines that seem similar to the one we used, we could not possibly have used, because they were not made until the second half of the '80s, and CA ceased our 1980s activity in the spring of 1983. The image at the head of this page is of the Casio CT-460, and this is the closest machine that I can find to what I remember. But the CT-460 was not made until around 1987. Thank you for your attention to this matter. GG, 04/10/26

See: Abject noise-makers