[sdiy] FS: Ensoniq ESQ-1 in need of some love

[Kyle Stephens]

Ditto Rico and Steff, just listing the repair history. I bought knowing full well it had a few dead keys and otherwise made no sound, and that it also wouldn't get past stating the OS version on the display (the condition Tim got it in iirc - it's why he eventually sold it).

I zapped a regulator and the screen, my bad and mine alone.

At any rate someone's already interested, and I'll post again if and when it's sold.


_Kyle

--- On Sat, 1/29/11, Steff <steff at steff.name> wrote:

> From: Steff <steff at steff.name>
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] FS: Ensoniq ESQ-1 in need of some love
> To: "Graham Atkins" <gatkins at blueyonder.co.uk>
> Cc: "Kyle Stephens" <lightburnx at yahoo.com>, synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Date: Saturday, January 29, 2011, 12:18 PM
> On 29 January 2011 20:06, Graham
> Atkins <gatkins at blueyonder.co.uk>
> wrote:
> > On 29 Jan 2011, at 19:23, Kyle Stephens wrote:
> >
> >> A few years back, I got this ESQ-1 from Tim
> (Servo) Parkhurst, who sold it
> >> to be under the premise that it wasn't making
> sounds, and that three keys
> >> were marked as dead. My attempts to service it
> have been lacking, and have
> >> resulted in the darkening of the fluorescent
> screen.
> >>
> >> I bumped a regulator with my meter while it was
> powered on, resulting in a
> >> spark there and the aforementioned darkening of
> the screen - it still *does*
> >> light up though.
> >
> > So you're blaming Tim although you damaged it ?
> 
> Blaming Tim would be _not_mentioning shorting the
> regulator, surely?
> Just reads as a full history of "things likely to need
> working on" to
> me.
> 
> S
>