Dick Hyman discusses which instruments he began playing on

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Dick Hyman discusses his early training

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Dick Hyman discusses the many different types of keyboards he has played on

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Q: “You’ve played all the keyboards at one time or another, haven’t you! I have recordings of you with the Bill Watrous Wildlife Refuge Big Band playing a synthesizer – a Minimoog I think it is - certainly a piano, a real pipe organ with the foot pedals and everything, an electric piano – the Baldwin, which is put on pipe organ settings or something and faked almost everybody out – harpsichord, clavichord; have you played them too?”

A: “Yeah, I have dabbled on most of those keyboards and even on a couple that you haven't thought of. There is a place in New York that supplies various sound effects in the form of keyboards and I have played tuned automobile horns one time.”