Five G Tokyo – Take A Look At The Best Vintage Synthesizer Store

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The Five G Store in Tokyo does not only carry keyboard instruments but also exhibits a fine selection of analog and digital drum machines, effects and more. From the well-known Sherman Filter Bank, Vermona Retroverb Lancet to small German manufacturers of drum machines like Acidlab or MFB. Here everyone will find his favourite device.

 

A few steps forward, you stood again in front of a wall of amazing instruments. Here were original Roland SH-101 in grey and blue, a vintage ARP Odyssey, Moog Memorymoog up to a nice analog Yamaha Synthesizer. Also here, a number of Dave Smith Instruments devices were exhibited and ready to play and also the analog Vermona 14 synth.

 

 

The Beauty Farm For Electronic Instruments: Where Care Is Still Important

 

At the end of the first gear row, the highlight of the Five G Store came to my mind. That was not the selection of rarities but the service area. Synthesizers, Drum Machines … are repaired and serviced daily here. For me personally, it was exciting to watch the whole thing because you rarely see such pictures of synth repairs. If you have a modern Synthesizer repaired today, they will happily disappear into big companies that take over this service very professionally and without charm. In the afternoon, where I was there, a Moog Memorymoog was repaired and made functional again.

 

 

After I had looked at the whole thing, the tour continued into the second row, which welcomed me warmly with old Sequential Circuits and Roland instruments. I think the next pictures speak for themselves and don’t need an extra explications.

 

A Roland Alone Among Sequential Circuits Synthesizers

 

 

In Good Company

 

 

Two AKAI MPC’s Got Lost In The Synth Paradise

 

 

Don’t Forget To Look At The Floor !