Musician, composer, and music technologist, Erik Norlander, is selling a collection of 40+ vintage and current synthesizers and keyboards exclusively on Reverb starting October 6th. Thirty percent of the proceeds will be donated to the Bob Moog Foundation to support its work in education, archive preservation, and the operations of the Moogseum.
Erik Norlander’s Bob Moog Foundation Benefit Sale can be accessed at https://bit.ly/ErikNorlandersBenefitSale.
The synthesizers and keyboards for sale include:
- ARP Omni 2 string synthesizer
- Casio CT-6000 synthesizer
- Dave Smith Instruments Polyevolver
- Farfisa Compact combo organ
- Farfisa Compact Duo CD/30 combo organ
- Farfisa Syntorchestra
- Kawai K5
- Kawai K5000S digital synthesizer
- Korg Maxikorg DV800
- Korg Mono/Poly analog synth
- Korg Polysix “Kiwisix”
- Logan String Melody string synthesizer
- Oberheim Matrix-6
- Oberheim Matrix-12
- Oberheim OB-8 and OB-Xa
- Rhodes (ARP) Chroma analog synthesizer
- Rhodes Mark V and Mark II electric pianos
- Roland Alpha Juno 1
- Roland Jupiter 6
- Rhodes MK80 digital electric piano
- Roland VP-330 MK-1 Vocoder
- Roland JP-8000 analog modeling synthesizer
- Roland JX3P with PG200 programmer
- Vox Super Continental combo organ
- Waldorf Microwave XTk wavetable synth keyboard
- Waldorf Pulse 2 analog synthesizer module
- Waldorf Streichfett string synthesizer module
- Waldorf Q wavetable synth keyboard
- Yamaha AN1X analog modeling synthesizer
- Yamaha DX7
- Yamaha SY35 digital vector synthesizer
- Yamaha TX81Z FM synthesizer module
- Yamaha YC45D combo organ
- Yamaha CP30 analog synth electric piano
- Yamaha SS30 string synthesizer
“I am excited to offer part of my rather sprawling keyboard collection for sale to benefit the Bob Moog Foundation,” noted Norlander. “I have been a supporter of the Foundation since 2007, and I strongly believe in generating funding to empower its work in education, archive preservation, and the operations of the Moogseum.”
Erik Norlander is an accomplished keyboardist, composer and producer with over 40 album credits including nine solo albums, seven with his Rocket Scientists project, and 11 albums with vocalist wife, Lana Lane. He serves as a member of the Board of Advisors of the Bob Moog Foundation. Erik toured and recorded with Asia Featuring John Payne from 2007 to 2014 and recorded two albums with the Asia spinoff project, Dukes of the Orient, in the years following. He toured extensively in the US and Europe in 2016-2018 with Last in Line featuring original Dio members Vinny Appice and Vivian Campbell. Before Last in Line, Erik toured with Big Noize, a supergroup featuring hard rock all stars, Joe Lynn Turner, Simon Wright and Carlos Cavazo. Erik also wrote the music and produced the album, Roswell Six – Beyond the Horizon, in 2009 for science fiction author, Kevin J. Anderson, in support of the first of his Terra Incognita fantasy novels.
Outside of the music world, Erik co-designed the UNO Synth analog synthesizers for IK Multimedia, carrying on the legacy of his design work on the legendary Alesis Andromeda analog synthesizer in the late 1990s. Erik also created IK Multimedia’s Syntronik virtual instrument libraries based solely on samples of his synth collection along with scores of sample libraries for SampleTank 4. Prior to that, Erik was the first synthesizer product manager for Alesis Studio Electronics and presided over the creation of the QS series of synthesizers, DM5 and DM Pro drum modules and several other products. He is currently the Director of Keyboard Product Development for Moog Music and the inMusic Family of Brands.
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