Lyle Mays' Gear

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This article mentions that Mays replaced his Prophet 5 with a Roland JX-10.

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In this music radar article, it mentions Mays originally used an Oberheim Four Voice while with the Pat Metheny Group.

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This music radar article mentions Mays' signature ocarina sound was created on the Prophet 5 rev 2.

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As stated on his MusicDatabase biography, Lyle Mays used a Kurzweil K250 digital synthesizer:

Mays plays a Steinway Grand Piano with built-in MIDI. He has used an Oberheim 8 Voice Synth, a Sequential Circuits Prophet 5, Kurzweil K250, Korg DW-8000, Korg Triton keyboards, and many more.

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As stated on his MusicDatabase biography, Lyle Mays used a Korg DW-8000 digital synthesizer:

Mays plays a Steinway Grand Piano with built-in MIDI. He has used an Oberheim 8 Voice Synth, a Sequential Circuits Prophet 5, Kurzweil K250, Korg DW-8000, Korg Triton keyboards, and many more.

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As stated on his MusicDatabase biography, Lyle Mays used a Steinway Model D Grand Piano:

Mays plays a Steinway Grand Piano with built-in MIDI. He has used an Oberheim 8 Voice Synth, a Sequential Circuits Prophet 5, Kurzweil K250, Korg DW-8000, Korg Triton keyboards, and many more.

He can be seen playing this piano in every live video too. You can see a collection of them on this Synthopia.com biography / portrait: https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2020/02/11/lyle-mays-has-died-at-the-age-of-66/

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Starting with Speaking of now tour, Lyle Mays replaced JX10 and Oberheim 4voices with 76-keys Korg Triton. He appeared in some Korg advertising too.

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A 1980 interview reveals that Lyle Mays played a Yamaha CP-30 with Pat Metheny Group. It can be heard clearly on 'Airstream'.

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A photograph depicts Lyle Mays on stage with a Kurzweil K250 RMX positioned to his left.

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