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Ben Rogerson

“This is the king of synths. It will always be my favourite”: Howard Jones takes you on a tour of the synth he’s owned since 1983 that “sounds like no other”

British New Wave & Pop musician Howard Jones plays keyboards as he performs onstage at Forest Hills Stadium, Queens, New York, August 3, 1984. (Photo by Gary Gershoff/Getty Images).

It may not have escaped your notice that Howard Jones likes playing synthesizers, and we’re starting to get the impression that he rather likes talking about them, too.

After last year’s rather surprising revelation that he’d never previously owned a Prophet-5 - relax, he’s got one now - his latest video has him revisiting an instrument that he’s definitely familiar with: a Roland Jupiter-8 that he’s owned since 1983.

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