[sdiy] Ridiculous price for Paia synth

[Michael E Caloroso]

My first synthesizer was a PAiA 4700 modular which I built from kits.
I won the grand prize in a piano competition and the award funded the
PAiA, I was just starting college.  I actually gigged it for three
years.  Yes another PAiA launches an engineering career.

My next synthesizer was a Moog Source and I forgot all about the PAiA.
Frankly the sound of the PAiA pales next to any decent synthesizer.
But you gotta start somewhere...

Ten years later I dug out the modules and only half of them worked.
At the time I did not see any value in fixing them.  A few years later
my house for hit with floodwater and the modules got trashed.

As far as I'm concerned, PAiA modulars have very little value.  They
were not built to last, and I would never purchase any product built
from a kit.

The current renaissance in modulars is fascinating but my appetite for
modulars was whetted with the PAiA and I have no desire to acquire
another modular.  Unless a Moog modular or ARP 2500 were to fall in my
lap.
MC

On 11/22/20, Jason Proctor <jason at redfish.net> wrote:
> 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?
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> 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
>>
>> 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:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> I sent him these shots of the supposed Hannett owned MTM:
>> https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B055qXGF1q3v4s
>>
>> 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!
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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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