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Subject: Re: [yamahacs80] Re: any other MIDI retrofit kit ?

From: David Rogoff <david@...>
Date: 2012-12-03

Eddie Jobson said he had the first CS80 sold outside of Japan. I think Bill Sautter still has it and could tell us what its serial number is.

David


On Dec 2, 2012, at 3:28 PM, blchrr@... wrote:

> My first Cs80 was serial number 900 something.
>
>> AFAIK from my times being Yamaha Product Specialist, older Yamaha
>> products for public market start serial numbering from 1000 up. If
>> there are some machines with numbers under 1000, they are prototypes
>> or testing pieces.
>>
>> Maybe that's the reason for a mistake.
>>
>> Newer products use different coding system, not just simple numbering.
>>
>> Daniel Forro
>>
>> On 3 Dec, 2012, at 4:40 AM, David Rogoff wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Dec 2, 2012, at 11:32 AM, scistudio440 <zevault@...> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>> 1000 made you say ? So synthmuseum is wrong claiming they were 2000
>>>> units then ?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'm pretty sure. I've never seen/heard of a serial number under
>>> 1000 or over 2000.
>>
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