[sdiy] Polymoog

[Tony Allgood]

Hi all,

Well, this really is being a bit of a pain literally. And to be honest,
if I could have picked it up, I would have thrown it out the window last
night. I did my back in lifting the thing off the bench yesterday.

But its starting to sound OK, although the slider pots are terrible and
they have this plastic tar all over them. Sort of reminiscent of the
Moog Rogue here. And after two hours with a box full of cotton buds and
IPA, that's isopropyl alcohol, not the beer, I have only got about 90%
of the keys to work. And the velocity response is zero. Is it all worth
it??? I really don't know. The keyboard is so heavy. Is it supposed to
be like that? It reminds me of the piano we used to have in the practice
room at school. After ten minutes of playing, your hands ache all over.
If this cannot be fixed the whole thing is going to spare parts.

So my question is: is the keyboard problem a spring problem or a feature
of the keyboard itself. Do they go bad? I know barbed wire goes stiff
after a few years out in the open. Florian, Gene, are yours this bad?

Many thanks,

Tony Allgood, Penrith, Cumbria, England

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