Name: A surprisingly rare synthesizer
Uploaded: 2026-03-04T21:44:14.000Z
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The Yamaha DX7 was one of the most popular synthesizers of the 1980s.

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The musician and producer Trent Reznor is regarded as being partly responsible for the surprisingly high prices today of this instrument.

I know the name Trent Reznor, and I know he's in a popular band, Nine Inch Nails.

I couldn't work out, remember, if it was, like, one of the members of Slipknot or that sort of thing.

Is he part of Nine Inch Nails or is he Nine Inch Nails?

I'm not sure if it's one of those things where the band is the guy and whoever he happens to be working with, I think it's entirely him and sometimes another guy.

So he is Nine Inch Nails and clearly nominated the wrong person.

I mean, most recently known for doing the soundtrack to the new Tron movie.

So he's responsible for it being so expensive?

And try and work out what kind of synthesizer it is.

Because I know certain synthesizers and certain, like, tech like that.

Some of them are rarer, and they don't produce them, like, forever.

I'm just wondering if he just kept breaking them and since they stopped being produced, they've gone up in price.

I was thinking, had he bought, like, 10 of them?

Because he's the one guy on stage and he's got 10.

From Tom's reaction, I feel like that's completely wrong.

They often brought them in with the band to use them on stage.

The equipment was regularly destroyed and discarded.

Is it like a fashion thing where people turn them into.

Because I know that I have a pet hate where people take pinball machines and turn them into coffee tables.

Is it a similar kind of thing where that was a perfectly good pinball machine you've just ruined?

Trent Reznor does not have a collection of gutted DX7s that have been turned into something else.

Is it the way he uses them on stage or is it after he uses them that they're destroyed?

He doesn't want you to get his fingerprints, so he smashes it.

That is the exact phrase I have here, is that the equipment was regularly destroyed and discarded due to the nature of their energetic performances.

Because if he's in Slipknot, I know they're a very, like.

I know they're a very aggressive band on stage.

I assume it is the same with Nine Inch Nails and they just.

This is not Joe Strummer deliberately destroying his guitar at the end of the performance.

I mean, There is a YouTube video titled Nearly 3 Minutes of Trent Reznor Assaulting Keyboards at Woodstock 94.

I know a couple of musicians, they will break equipment to get the right noise out of it.

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