[sdiy] A couple of finds..

[Seb Francis]

Hi,

My friend was at the dump recently and intercepted a couple of things as 
they were being thrown away ...

Roland SR-09 Organ/Strings synth
Simmons SDC 200 Electronic Drum Amp (just the top part, without the 
speaker cab part)

At first we were quite excited about the Simmons as we thought it was an 
old analog drum machine, but turns out it's just a 200W amp for a drum 
machine (lots of inputs and tone controls for each).

The Roland is quite nice actually, very warm analog strings sounds, but 
unfortunately has no MIDI or CV/Gate inputs so isn't really going to 
work in a studio situation (not for us non-musician, sequencer 
programming types anyway!)  I'm sure it could be retrofitted with 
CV/Gate inputs but I'm probably not going to get round to it any time soon.

So anyway, I now have these 2 items cluttering up my studio and they 
need to find a home!  I'm happy to give the Simmons away to anyone who'd 
like to collect (South Wales, UK) or pay postage (it's quite heavy).  
The Roland is probably worth a small sum (maybe £50?) - it's in good 
condition (except for 1 slider cap missing), and sounds lovely, 
perfectly in tune.

If interested please contact me off-list.

Cheers,
Seb

P.S. Info on the RS-09:
http://www.vintagesynth.com/roland/rs09.shtml