Mike Oldfield

During this video of Oldfield rehearsing sections of "Tubular Bells II", Mike can be seen playing a Farfisa Professional organ at about 2:30. This organ was used on quite a few of his albums from the original "Tubular Bells" through to the 2003 re-recording.

This wonderfully detailed photo from the Ommadawn recordings sessions show all the instruments that Oldfield played on the album (and there are most likely others not shown as well). The labelling is quite obvious, but the 2600 is against the right wall, in front of the tubular bells.

The attached image is from the sleeve of the Discovery album and the Fairlight Series II (keyboard, computer and monitor) can be seen in the centre. Oldfield was one of the early Fairlight owners. He actually had two of them (astonishingly, given their cost at the time!), both of which were used for live work. (reference tubular.net http://tubular.net/instruments/#SAMPLER )

The image here is from the inner sleeve of Oldfields "Discovery" album. The Fender Rhodes piano is in the foreground (with the Roland VP-300 on top). It's most likely the 88-note model. The listing on tubular.net is not specific, however, it's obvious that he used a Rhodes of some description. http://tubular.net/instruments/#PIANO

In this video from 1980, there is a clear shot at 13:30 of Oldfield playing a Polymoog. Here, the Moog audio and his voice are combined through an outboard vocoder.

In this studio clip of his cover version of the Shadows classic "Wonderful Land", at 1:09, Oldfield is briefly seen with three synths as the camera flys in. The one in the middle that he is 'playing' (in an amusingly hammy fashion for the purpose of the video!) is the Prophet 5. The Prophet 5 was used on his albums "Platinum" "QE2" "Five Miles Out" and "Crises". It was also used in concerts by keyboard player Tim Cross. (information from Tubular.net http://tubular.net/instruments/?by=cat#SYNTH )

In this footage of Oldfield's studio, at 25 secs in when Mike begins introduce some of his pieces, the distinctive top panel of the Moog Taurus I pedals can be seen at the bottom centre of the picture

In a live performance of "Tubular Bells II" at Edinburgh Castle in 1992, Mike Oldfield can be seen using a Korg M1 synthesizer. This is documented in a YouTube video uploaded by Luis Mediavilla.

The attached image is from the sleeve of Oldfields "Discovery" album. The VP-330 is clearly visible in the left foreground in front of the Fairlight monitor.

The attached image is from the inner sleeve of Oldfields "Discovery" album. Although a bit difficult to see clearly, the OBX-A is on top of the Fairlight. Also visit http://tubular.net/instruments/#SYNTH for a comprehensive list of Oldfields gear

This wonderfully detailed photo from the Ommadawn recording sessions labels each instrument that Oldfield used on the album. If you really can't find it since everything is so well labelled, the Solina is between Mike and the tubular bells

In this video of Oldfield recording the Blue Peter theme, from around 3:10 he is seen playing the main theme on the Roland SH-2000. (The clarinet preset was one of his favourites!) Refer also to the thoroughly comprehensive gear list on http://tubular.net/instruments/#SYNTH

As the linked website says, "Mike used two of these on the album (as seen in the 1994 VH1 interview). Also used in Voyager, Tubular Bells III, The Millennium Bell, Tres Lunas, Tubular Bells 2003."

He uses Roland SH-101 according to the site.