[sdiy] Re: Pratt&Reed keyboard pix

[Ken Stone]

You aught to try repairing a Serge - no schematic to start with. Secondly,
ask for photos, and generally you are told to "get lost". Sure Serges are
still being made, but heck - old ones do need repair.

Some pics and info of my first gen Serge are available on my site.
http://www.cgs.synth.net/synth/serge/index.html

Ken

>I second this. When you're repairing, unmodifying or even just thinking 
>about buying a particular model, it's reassuring to be able to check out 
>decent pictures of a "standard" unit. 
>
>It's been mentioned before, but another good thing to do (if you have the 
>facility, and if the synth has one) is to take a dump of the EPROM contents. 
>
>I just took loads of pics of my Teisco SX-400 (restoration just finished) 
>which should be appearing on Sander Meyer's Teisco site 
>(http://home.worldonline.nl/~smeyer/teisco) sometime soon. 
>
>Cheers, 
>
>Steve L. 
>
>Glen writes: 
>
>> At 05:24 PM 3/16/04 , Tom Arnold wrote: 
>> 
>>>...there seems to be a lack of pictures of Synth guts on the net...
>> 
>> Oddly enough, I was thinking the same thing recently. I decided to start
>> taking pictures of things I work on in the future, (not that I work on a
>> lot of gear these days.) A digital camera with decent macro capability is
>> great for this sort of thing. I wouldn't do this with a film camera,
>> because of the extra expense and hassle involved, but with digital it's
>> very easy and inexpensive. 
>> 
>> Perhaps more of us should start photographically documenting some of the
>> gear we work on, for the benefit of others? I'm currently documenting the
>> internals of my Synare drums for a fellow list member, who needed to
>> "un-modify" a dysfunctional modified Synare. 
>> 
>> 
>> later,
>> Glen 
>> 
> 
>
>
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