<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 11 Jul 2026, at 08:29, Michael E Caloroso via Synth-diy <synth-diy@synth-diy.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">Due to premature degradation, the aftertouch element did not have a long life in the Soloist. </span></div></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div><div>What was this element, exactly, do you recall?</div><div>I ask because the Hall sensor mechanism in my SH-2000, which gives a wonderful-feeling and musical aftertouch, is still working after 50 years....</div><div><br></div><div>A</div></body></html>