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This article states that Cale used the Celesta on the Velvet Underground song “Sunday Morning”.

In the video titled "Studio Digest: A Look Inside Leon Vynehall's Creative Sanctuary" by Resident Advisor, Leon Vynehall is observed using the Dynacord Echocord Super 76 at the 07:36 timestamp.

John "Rabbit" Bundrick is seen using the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 in the promo video for The Who's single "You Better You Bet," as featured in the video directed by John Crome and filmed at Shepperton Studios in March 1981. This serves as visual confirmation of Bundrick's use of this synthesizer.

In the video titled "Riff Lords: Eric Peterson of Testament," produced by Gibson TV, Eric Peterson is seen playing a Gibson Explorer Pro while demonstrating riffs on this guitar.

At 0:15 in this 2025 promo video for Arturia, Kawai's Digidesign Eleven rack can be seen in the background. It's the orange 2-unit thing with guitar cables sticking out of it.

At 0:51 in this 2025 Arturia promo video, you can clearly see Kawai's Mellotron M4000D rack in the background. At other points in the video, you can even see the word "Mellotron" in giant silver embossed letters on the unit, as if the color and layout weren't distinctive enough.

At 0:51 in this late 2025 video for Arturia, you can clearly see Kawai's SE Midimini rack in the background. According to Kenji's own website, he has two of these units. This site also confirms that these are indeed Midiminis and not the earlier MidiMoog units SE shipped.

At 3:45, you can see in Izumi's jenga tower of keyboards that there is a Yamaha CP-80 at the bottom. You can tell by the distinctive silver strip on the front of the keyboard and it's large, boxy footprint.

At 3:45 you can see that Izumi has not one but 2 DX7s! There is one in front of him stacked on top of another keyboard and another one on his right. It's pretty easy to pick the DX7 out, the design is pretty iconic, and considering it was more widespread in the 80s than cocaine its safe to say that's a DX7.

At 44:18 you can see the Rhodes logo displayed proudly on the panel of the keyboard and at 3:27 you can see the pitch/mod joystick on the left of the keyboard that was featured on these keyboards which Roland built under the Rhodes name. I didn't even know this unholy amalgam existed.