> Ray Manzarek used portable keyboards like Farfisas, voxes and such,
> which render a thinner, cheesier (there's old time U.S. slang for
^^^^^^^^
> you!) more mysterious and disconcerting sound.
Not just old and not just U.S.! I know a bloke at Cambridge
(he's actually from Maidstone) who uses "cheesy" in that sense all the
time.
Cheers,
Carl