Geartalk I (1986/1987/1988): Specdrum and the CASIO SK-5

Although I had been interested in making music, recording vocals and stuff, the first time I actually bought and used a musical device was this one. The Specdrum - this was a hardware addition for the ZX-Spectrum home computer that I had since 1985. My Specdrum was never as fancy as this one on the photo as the company in England that sent it to me (I had send them cash) obviously thought that for that bloody german, a used one without any packaging would be sufficiant. I could not complain legally, after all. Those were the times. Here is a nice demo-video for the Specdrum Anyway I got it and immediately tried it and put it a away and forgot about it. I would like to recall that I had a plan, but I did not have one. Then I heard "This Corrosion", I learned, that there are "Samplers" out there, and in one of our computer magazines they had a feature on midi-synthezisers. So I learned that Casio was serious, but there was no way I could afford a CZ-101 (that was f...