[sdiy] Blown LF13741 and suitable replacement?

[Adam (synthDIY)]

> On 5 Feb 2026, at 10:20, rburnett at richieburnett.co.uk wrote:
> 
> To be honest when I got the SH-09 working as a young lad I was blown away... It was the first "keyboard" I heard that made sounds like the music I was listening to in my youth.  Been hooked ever since!

I know exactly what you mean.
In my last year of school, 1979, an older guy whose band I played in got an SH-2.
Man this thing was from OUTER SPACE!!  It could do ANYTHING!!  etc etc   ... made a huge impression.
The next year I'm at Uni and I hear "A Forest" by The Cure...  incredibly moody synth line. I was told or I had read that the synth played was a Roland SH-09  (although digging around now, I can't verify that)  so I just had to have one!!

Many years later I finally found one (it sits next to that SH-2 I managed to inherit...)

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