Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Yamaha CS80

Hi, new guy to the group here. My CS-80 has been in my garage unused
for over twenty years. I got it in 1981, but I foolishly put it aside
when everything went to MIDI and DX7s and all of that. I don't
remember the last time I used it, but it must have been around 1985.

Well, I got it out of storage yesterday, wiped off the dust from the
outside, and when I opened it, I was amazed to see how clean this baby
is. Hardly any dust got inside. It was stored with only the lid on it,
not in any other case or cover. I wiped it down, plugged it in, and
fully expected it to be totally dead, or at least severely diseased
from all those years of neglect. Guess what? It's functioning
perfectly, the patches under the panel are exactly as I left them, and
it's only a bit out of tune (this one always held its tuning well).
One voice of channel I is over a semitone flat, but other than that,
it's not bad considering it hasn't been tuned for so longs.

This must be one hell of a well built machine to still function after
all that time. I'm going to try tuning it myself using the valuable
info on Old Crow's site when I get the courage. Any suggestions for a
tuning newbie?