{"id":146683,"date":"2025-01-13T14:50:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T20:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/?p=146683"},"modified":"2025-01-13T14:50:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T20:50:42","slug":"the-panasonic-do-re-mi-a-forgotten-record-player-keyboard-from-1977","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2025\/01\/13\/the-panasonic-do-re-mi-a-forgotten-record-player-keyboard-from-1977\/","title":{"rendered":"The Panasonic Do-Re-Mi, A Forgotten Record Player Keyboard From 1977"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Panasonic-Do-Re-Mi-Sample-Library-Screenshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-146684\" src=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Panasonic-Do-Re-Mi-Sample-Library-Screenshot-728x336.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Panasonic-Do-Re-Mi-Sample-Library-Screenshot-728x336.jpg 728w, https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Panasonic-Do-Re-Mi-Sample-Library-Screenshot-320x148.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Panasonic-Do-Re-Mi-Sample-Library-Screenshot-768x355.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Panasonic-Do-Re-Mi-Sample-Library-Screenshot-649x300.jpg 649w, https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Panasonic-Do-Re-Mi-Sample-Library-Screenshot.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In his latest video, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@DavidHilowitzMusic\">David Hilowitz<\/a> takes an in-depth look at a forgotten record player keyboard for kids from 1977, the <strong>Panasonic Do-Re-Mi<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Hilowitz demonstrates how the keyboard worked when he got it, what he did to fix its problems, and then how it works repaired:<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Panasonic Do-Re-Mi: an analog synth for kids with a record player built in!\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8u1hUy--pGs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Video Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&#8220;I recently got my hands on a pretty neat vintage item: the Panasonic Do-Re-Mi. It\u2019s essentially a little analog synth \/ organ with a built in record player. Panasonic also sold a version with a built-in tape deck, and another even rarer unit that just contained the synth portion on its own. All three versions were released in 1977, along with the Panapic multimedia system.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The one I got was not in very good condition: I had to replace the capacitors, clean the keyboard, and replace the record needle, but I did eventually manage to get it back on its feet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Naturally, the very first thing I did once I got it working was sample it. This proved to be quite an easy task as it has only one sound. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Panasonic Do-Re-Mi<\/strong> is a very limited instrument, but it also has a sound that&#8217;s very evocative of its time.<\/p>\n<p>Hilowitz has sampled the Panasonic Do-Re-Mi and made it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.decentsamples.com\/product\/panasonic-do-re-mi\/\">available<\/a> as a free sample library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Panasonic Do-Re-Mi is a very limited instrument, but it also has a sound that&#8217;s very evocative of its time.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2025\/01\/13\/the-panasonic-do-re-mi-a-forgotten-record-player-keyboard-from-1977\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Panasonic Do-Re-Mi, A Forgotten Record Player Keyboard From 1977<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34,13995],"tags":[22327,30619,1337],"class_list":["post-146683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electronic-instruments","category-free-sample-library-computer-music","tag-panasonic","tag-strange","tag-strange-musical-instruments"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/recordplayer-synth.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146686,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146683\/revisions\/146686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}