Hi David,
thanks for these comprehensive insights. Wouldn´t it be possible to upload
all these somewhere or compiling these in printed/CDR form? My tech is very
reluctant about touching my 80, and this might help him a good deal and make
him a lot more courageous...
Stephen.
"Ambition makes you look pretty ugly." (Thom Yorke/Radiohead -- "Paranoid
Android")
"Hoellenengel" -- new album by Stephen Parsick, street date October 1, 2005.
For info and audio, please check www.parsick.com
Coming soon: "oughtibridge", the new [´ramp] album, recorded live in
England.
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Wound, David Tibet).
----- Original Message -----
From: David Rogoff <david@...>
To: <yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 7:50 AM
Subject: [yamahacs80] I'm tuned!
> Hi all.
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> It's been a while since I gave a status on my repair/restoration. My
> CS-80 is now 100% working!
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> I just tuned it this evening. I don't know why people think it's such
> a huge deal. Admittedly, mine was pretty close to start with, but the
> main tuning procedure (Tuning from
> http://personal.inet.fi/private/matador/cs-80_adjustment_procedure.html)
> only took about an hour. It's so in tune it almost sounds digital :^)
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> I also did the power-supply adjustments. One thing I did, that I had
> read somewhere, was put a heater in the room and cranked up the
> temperature to about 85F. This is supposed to make the ambient
> temperature around the voice cards closer to what it would be with the
> instrument all closed up. The tuning has always been good and solid
> on this unit. It's serial # 1646, which is one of the highest ones
> I've ever seen. It has the last version of the VCO chips, which
> didn't require any temperature compensation mods.
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> While it's opened up, I'll go through all the other adjustment
> procedures. I've already tweaked all the switch contacts to get the
> note on/off and velocity sensing even. I even took out all the keys
> and cleaned the key tops. All aftertouch sensors are working great, too.
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> Oh, and after searching for months, I bought an original CS-80 stand
> from a guy whose CS-80 wasn't working. Now if I could just find the
> Plexiglass music rest. My attempt to make one didn't work out:
> cutting Plexiglass (especially clear) is harder than I thought.
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> I hope to screw the case shut, for the last time, within a week
> (unless I find a Kenton kit really cheap!).
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> I'll post some more pictures soon, too.
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> Thanks for all the help I've gotten from many people in this group!
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> David
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