[sdiy] Ridiculous price for Paia synth

[Jason Proctor]

Just to confirm.... the Chris Hewitt you mention has nothing to do with
English (but San Jose based) synth tech Chris Hewitt of thisoldsynth.com
fame, who has done such a stellar job taking care of my synths over the
last few years?




On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 8:15 PM admin <d2ba at xtra.co.nz> wrote:

> I bought some QX-1 disks from Chris ex -New Order
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> Thanks David
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> *From: *Synth-diy <synth-diy-bounces at synth-diy.org> on behalf of Todd
> Sines <sines_list at scale.la>
> *Date: *Monday, 23 November 2020 at 4:07 PM
> *To: *synth-diy mailing list <synth-diy at synth-diy.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [sdiy] Ridiculous price for Paia synth
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> Chris Hewitt is ridiculous.
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> Recently posted this to AH:
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> I bought a non-working Marshall Time Modulator from Chris Hewitt, author /
> director of “He Wasn’t Just the Fifth Member of Joy Division”.. who sold a
> shedload of Factory-era gear from Martin Hannett. I wanted some of that
> Hannett mojo, and paid way more than I should. I received it, and it was
> questionable. I wrote David Kulka — known for his repair and parts for
> byzantine studio gear, like.. Marshall Time Modulators. He purchased the
> remains of the estate of Steven St. Croix, including the notoriously
> impossible to repair MTMs.
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> I sent him these shots of the supposed Hannett owned MTM:
> https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B055qXGF1q3v4s
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> He immediately identified this from a series of prototypes / parts
> machines were sold on eBay to buyer named Chris, in the UK. Chris had
> printed up Dymo labels to say “Hannett MTM”, etc and resold them with a
> signed copy of his book as a means of trying to cash in on Martin’s legacy.
> Sad!
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> I shipped it to him, and found one from Hamish Jackson of MJQ. He
> collected my MTM from Jamie from Britannia Row Studios, and claims it was
> used on Pink Floyd, and who knows what else. Coil, New Order, Section 25,
> and Joy Division recorded there, which was ok by me.
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> Fuck that Chris Hewitt guy.
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> Todd
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> On Nov 22, 2020, at 8:58 PM, Benjamin Tremblay via Synth-diy <
> synth-diy at synth-diy.org> wrote:
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> I scored a 2700 at a flea market. After a few days I got the oscillator
> started and listened to the signal path.
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> There’s just nothing there to like.
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> Benjamin Tremblay
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> On Nov 21, 2020, at 4:59 AM, Tom Bugs <admin at bugbrand.co.uk> wrote:
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> Before my son was born, I used to regularly look through ebay for
> parts/repair items (usually a bad habit!) - that 'Martin Hannett' seller
> cropped up quite regularly, the items overpriced & never seeming to shift.
> (Hey, who wants to pay £800 for a really poor old mixer that hasn't been
> tested?!)
> Idly looking again the other day & saw another such advert - wow, the
> seller is *still* at it! - strikes me slightly as dogged perseverance
> trying to slowly sell this stuff.
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> On 21/11/2020 07:57, Vesa Lahteenmaki wrote:
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> yours just for 7500 GBP, about 10000 USD
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> https://www.ebay.com/itm/EMS-Bournemouth-built-PAIA-analog-synth-1970s-from-Martin-Hannett/284014785012?hash=item422099b1f4:g:0iIAAOSwOCdfYzwq
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