Ongoing Inspiration

A small grey sequencer with a blank LCD screen and lots of buttons: The Yahama QY22

I’ve been inspired recently to get back into music a little more seriously (read, burning passion but limited time) and I suddenly remembered I had this old sequencer tucked away somewhere.

I had stopped using it because I lost the power adapter, or possibly it broke. It takes six AA batteries as an alternative, but that’s quite an expensive amount of consumables or a heck of a lot of battery recharging. So it’s just been gathering dust while I occasionally considered replacing the adapter.

I just dug it out, remembering that it’s got some piano music I wrote in college with weird time signatures that I wanted to revisit . I looked up how much a replacement adapter would be, immediately found the exact one: £16 including postage.

£16! For access to a great bit of kit and the nostalgia of music I wrote in my formative years.

Will I learn anything from this experience? Doubtful…

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