broken keys

[Ingo Debus]

Roel Das wrote:
> And one of my friends has a Roland W30 or whatever, but some of the keys are
> broken. Can I do the replacements myself? Where can I get the parts for
> that?

Ask Roland. I don't know about Roland Belgium, but the people at Roland
Germany are very helpful. They sell service manuals and replacement
parts to private persons. I don't know the keyboard of the W30, but I
once had to disassemble the keyboard of the Roland A-80. This is next to
impossible if you don't know how to do it! So get the service manual.
For the A-80, it contains a detailed description how to unmount the
keys, and it was quite easy then.

> And he asked for a full check up, what can you do but removing the
> dust a little???

Maybe the service manual contains some information about hidden
diagnostic routines in the W30's operating system. At least this is the
case for the Roland S-330.

Ingo