[sdiy] Interesting Midi Box for Parts etc...

[The Old Crow]

On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Peter Grenader wrote:

> Don't know if any of you have any been there, but I live in LA and ALL
> Electronics is an interesting place to say the least.  They're the king of
> surplus. I would wager that they don't have a clue about these midi units,
> as they probably bought them by the pound.  I am half-serious about this.

  Back in January while attending NAMM I had a friend drive me to the Van
Nuys store.  The place would be right at home at the Dayton Hamvention.  
I saw a number of nifty items ($3.00 motorized sliders, $1.00 "guess the
Alesis product the PCB came from," etc.)  I rummaged through the boxes of
61 and 76-note Fatar keyboard actions.  All of them were busted in some
fashion, but they didn't seem to mind my building a couple of 'good'
keyboards by sacrificing one of the really banged-up unit's springs and
keys. The 61-note key action is destined for a Prophet-5.  No idea what to
do with the 76-note one yet. (no, not selling it ;)

Crow
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