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15 mentions in 7 episodes.

Adam Buxton

57:05 · NS-10 · named · high confidence
“There was the NS tens... the guy I worked with a lot, Ash Workman, he was using NS10s... if it sounds good on these, it sounds good everywhere.”
Joe Mount explains he now mixes quietly on Yamaha NS-10s, a habit learned from engineer Ash Workman, as his key check for translation.
1:02:27 · QY-20 · named · high confidence
“There was a video of Björk talking about this Yamaha QY-20... it's basically just like a MIDI sound bank, but you can sequence on it.”
Joe programmed the country backing, including the banjo part, for Skip This Track on a Yamaha QY-20 pocket sequencer bought after a Björk video sent prices up.
1:03:11 · QY-70 · named · high confidence
“I've got a QY-70, I think, that my wife gave me for my birthday years ago... I used it a lot for jingles.”
Adam's Yamaha QY-70 has been a long-time jingle workhorse, praised for its meaty bass sound.
1:14:08 · QY-100 · named · high confidence
“This was a Yamaha QY-100 jam that I started with about going to the supermarket.”
The earliest version of Tea Towel was jammed out on Adam's Yamaha QY-100 sequencer as a supermarket-themed jingle.
1:30:46 · QY-100 · named · high confidence
“I'm going to bag the Yamaha QY-100... For a kind of non-musician it is a joyful piece of circuitry. I would recommend it to anyone.”
Adam names the Yamaha QY-100 as his favourite piece of kit — portable, affordable and non-musician friendly, though it eats batteries.

Djo

32:29 · DX7 · named · high confidence
“It was like a post-DX7, like, oh, we need something slick and presets.”
The DX7 was cited as the context for the Alpha Juno's preset-led 80s design.
55:44 · U3 · named · high confidence
“It was like Yamaha U3, like a more modern dark piano, and just wasn't working.”
A Yamaha U3 upright was one of several pianos tried and rejected while chasing the honky-tonk piano sound.

IDLES

47:33 · Disklavier · named · high confidence
“Nigel has this thing called a Disklavier, so it's like a player piano... then we sent it to the Disklavier”
Edited and re-voiced MIDI from Bowen's piano demo was played back through Nigel Godrich's Yamaha Disklavier player piano and recorded in the room for A Gospel.
1:33:46 · CS-80 · named · high confidence
“you know the bit where he draws the strings out of the CS80? I was like, oh my God, I'm going to do that”
A Floating Points podcast demo of drawing strings out of a Yamaha CS-80 inspired the octave-glitching idea behind the IDLES song Progress.

Kae Tempest

20:57 · Yamaha upright piano · named · high confidence
“It's that piano over there, the black upright... £1,200 Yamaha, which my piano tuner said, if that was my piano, I would cut it up and use it as kindling.”
The cheap Yamaha upright is the main piano heard on 'Statue in the Square' and Fraser's first-ever piano.

Olly Alexander

49:29 · RX5 · named · medium confidence
“I think RX-5, a drum machine called RX-5, I think is one that I really think sounds fantastic”
Harle praises the RX5's 'perfectly badly sampled', cartoony drum sounds, though he used his own sampled kit on Cupid's Bow.

Rex

1:27:59 · CP-70 · named · high confidence
“CP-80. CP-70. CP-70, sorry. Double bass.”
A Yamaha CP-70 was among the instruments recorded in Alex's living room live room.

The Favours

3:40 · Yamaha CP-80 · named · high confidence
“We said there was sort of a palette we were going to work with, and it was like CP-80 keys, guitar, bass, piano, drums.”
The Yamaha CP-80 electric grand is named as a core part of the album's deliberately limited instrument palette.
9:56 · Yamaha CP-80 · named · high confidence
“Ash played most of the CP-80 on most of the album, and so it's fun for her to get to stand up.”
Discussion of who played the CP-80 on each track, with Finneas taking it on this song.
1:29:43 · Yamaha CP-80 · named · high confidence
“I would give the CP-80 a big shout out on this record... it was a great writing tool.”
In the favourite-gear segment Finneas credits the CP-80 as the writing tool behind The Dream, David's Brother and Home Sweet Home.