Pete Townshend Synth Room 

JESUS CHRIST WHAT A COLLECTION!! The fact he has a GX1 in the room is just beyond incredible. As well as the dominating polysynths of the 80s!!

I love how the guy filming this apparently have no clue about what's in front of him...

Pretty bare bones, but it’s a good start.

You know, just the basics

looks like a bunch of prosumer rubbish really. when you get some real synths, let me know.

"A" Lowrey Organ? Or is that "the" Lowrey Organ. The Lowrey Berkshire that voiced the Baba O'Reilly sequence? And that Arp 2500? The most famous 2500 in the world, except for the Close Encounters 2500, which was scrapped after the film was made, because it was covered in smoke machine oil. I wonder what recordings the Synthi 100 was used on? The Colossus is relatively new I believe. The Arp Avatar guitar synth that was used on Goin' Mobile! Museum pieces all, but I'm glad that someone gets to play them and play with them.

So much more to this than "here's some synth porn". Even though it looks like a home organ that granny had in the parlor, that particular humble Lowrey Berkshire Deluxe TBO-1 is one of the most historically significant instrument in the world. It's been heard by millions upon millions over decades, opening Baba O'Reilly and Won't Get Fooled Again, it's all over Tommy and The Who Sell Out, as well as Pete's demos in the Scoop series. And that famous Arp 2500, with patching and tuning notoriously difficult for getting the same sounds twice, provided those string voices at the core of Quadrophenia. Patching to find those sounds, composing the parts, setting the sequencers, performing parts again and again for layers of polyphony? Pure mastery of the art. Unlike today, the 2500 had no presets. Changing any control in the patch path could alter and lose the voicing. Getting it in tune to other instruments, and itself, and keeping it there, with temperature drift and those fussy matrix switches must have tried Pete's patience to no end, all while going down paths no one had yet traveled, creating sounds no one had yet heard. It took extreme hand-built old-school synthesis and difficult hours of tedious work to build his masterpiece. Pretty good for a guy that "plays guitar".

Yamaha GX-1!!!!! 😮

Folks should watch out. This Pete Townsend might be going places.

Wow.

Pete was a pioneer of using synths, but with all these incredible examples, I'm surprised he didn't use them more!

yes

I want to hear them roar.

No Behringer kit? 🤣

Theres probably over $1/4 million worth of synths right there - with two of the rarest synths on the planet. Please Pete, find someone who knows what the hell they're looking at.

Nice. Looks like our workshop right now.

Kin ell !! 😂😂😂😆

Wow. Just Wow.

Wot? No VCS3?

WTH: you can’t tell an ARP 2500 from an EMS? 😂