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In this picture you can see Daryl playing a Fender Thinline Telecaster with a natural finish

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In the music video for private eyes, the CP-30 can be seen in the background below the Prophet 5. It’s most identifiable during the closeup shots of the keys where the knobs above are distinguishable of those on the CP-30. Despite being in the music video, it is unlikely that the CP-30 was used as the main piano sound in private eyes as the CP-30 is incapable of creating realistic piano sounds. It was most likely used in the video because they needed an additional keyboard prop. The sound in the song may have been a different model in Yamaha’s CP line.

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In this picture Daryl Hall can be seen playing a Fender Telecaster

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Daryl can be seen playing a Gibson Memphis in this photo

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In this video Daryl uses the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5. You can just make out the "5" at 0.18 in the video.

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The Guitar the Daryl is playing is a Taylor Grand Auditorium with Grained Ivoroid Wing inlays which is commonly found on 600 series guitars.

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In this Signed Image, Daryl Hall can be seen playing a Korg i3

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All across the video but clearly seen at minute 2:56

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All across the video, but clearly seen at minute 3:21

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This is a still image of Daryl Hall using the Roland RD-2000 live in concert in the Xfinity Center (Mansfield, MA) on June 7, 2018. (Photo by Stuart Berg)

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Used for "I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do)" and songwriting, as stated by bandmate John Oates in this April 2006 Mix Online "Classic Tracks" interview.

“Remember the old Roland CompuRhythm box?” he asks. “I turned to the Rock and Roll 1 preset, sat down at a Korg organ that happened to be lying there and started to play this bass line that was coming to me. It’s the old recording studio story: The engineer heard what I was doing and turned on the tape machine. Good thing, because I’m the kind of person who will come up with an idea and forget it. The chords came together in about 10 minutes, and then I heard a guitar riff, which I asked John, who was sitting in the booth, to play.”

“I remember that moment clearly,” says Oates. (...) “The old Compurhythm had four presets: Rock 1, Rock 2, cha cha/samba and some other stupid beat. We both had them in our houses, and one was sitting in the studio.

“We cut everything live back then, but sometimes used the Roland box to come up with a tempo,” Oates continues. “Anyway, Daryl came up with this great bass line, using whatever sound happened to be on the organ, and Neil miked it and the drum machine.

“Daryl came up with the ‘B’ section chords, and then I plugged my 1958 Strat directly into the board, which was either an early SSL or a Trident. We were beginning to experiment with digital samplers — the Fairlight and Synclavier in particular — but were still recording analog. At any rate, Daryl sang a guitar part idea, I started to experiment with a muting thing and the part evolved on the spot.”

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In this photo we can see Daryl is playing a fender Rhodes mark 1 but can’t tell if it’s a stage or suitcase model. The Rhodes was definitely always apart of their sound especially on all their 70s material

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Daryl Hall discusses his use of the Vintage Vibe Deluxe Electric Piano, a modern hybrid of the Wurlitzer and Rhodes electric pianos, in a video by Vintage Vibe on YouTube.

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