treasure in my synth...

[Stewart Pye]

Hi All.....

Last week while repairing an Aussie Monitor PA speaker cabinet at work I
found a plastic frog, a freddo frog, a few other plastic thingys, and a
piece of aluminium angle about 400mm long. Ribbit!!!


stew.


At 12:32 PM 16/01/2000 -0500, Rob wrote:
>I once found a really good gold plated pen in a Moog Rogue.
>The guy who owed it said that the thing rattled and gave it to me cheap
>because he thought something was broke inside of it.
>
>Rob
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: <RevTor at aol.com>
>To: <analogue at hyperreal.org>; <synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl>
>Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2000 11:47 AM
>Subject: treasure in my synth...
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>> Hello all,
>>   Heres a funny (or scary) story for everyone..  I recently aquired a
>K5000s
>> in mint condition except for one of the keys was dead (ie: no spring
>> action.., it played but it was just hanging low..) so last night I decided
>to
>> get this problem straightened out and started taking the thing apart.  I
>> heard lose bits inside and figured it was the spring or other keyboard
>bits
>> floating around waiting to short my new board out.  Well, after getting
>the
>> back cover off, I realized what it was that was rattling inside there.  It
>> was a link form someones watch band!  (And I found a dead ladybug too)
>Like
>> on the Synthfool site when Kevin found a pair of pliers inside the Jupiter
>8
>> (I think)..  Now, this thing is pretty damn new and showed no signs of
>anyone
>> ever being inside it so I assume its from Japan..  The link is stainless
>> steel and says "Made in China" on it in english.  In Japan are watches
>marked
>> in english?  Imagine what that could have done had it found its way onto
>the
>> motherboard...  Anyway I got the key fixed and now its mint condition.
>> Yipeeeeeeeeeeeeee........
>> later,
>> ~Steve M
>> Treasure!...
>>
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