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

A record-breaking 177 posts on this forum last month. Wow.
Lots of enthusiasm from CS owners.

Here's something else to be discussed, which might sound off-topic,
but believe me, it's definitely related:

Recently got a Prophet 8. Sounds great, but boy, what a crappy little
keyboard it has!
Because I am out of my mind, I removed the keybooard, hoping to
replace it with a fully-weighed (hammer-action) Fatar I have (5
octaves salvaged from an old, nonfunctional SL-990). To my dismay,
the KB panel (where the key contacts are)on the P8 is slightly
shorter (because the keys are actually smaller!), so I had to use the
innards of another KB (sorry, M-Audio....) and play it through MIDI.
Needles to say, the initial result looks like specimens on an autopsy
table (bloody mess... had to fill out a death certificate for the
warranty, of course!), but I am hoping that a little bit of carpentry
skills and good-quality timber will turn it into a worthy adversary
of its Yamaha cousin. I mean, shit, it's gonna be heavy, and sounds
awesome. Only difference is that pressure sensitivity is monophonic
(well, not the only difference, of course! you know the other obvious
ones....). It's kinda' like a Prophet T8, I guess...

Any other "creative" (read demented) projects from any of you, guys?