The Kawai & Teisco Analog Synths Group

Hi,

I don't know the 100P very much,
but you can try the vintagesynthrepair group ;)


--- In kawai-teisco@yahoogroups.com, John Brod <jnbrod@...> wrote:
>
>   Hi folks. I just joined the Kawai-Teisco group. MY name's Tony,
and I just became the dubious 'winner' of an eBay lottery "Teisco 100P".
> 
>  I say 'dubious' because although MOST things on the 100P work, two
do not: the reverb (no effect at all); and the aftertouch is so hard
to get working that honestly my fingers are hurtin'! :-)
> 
>    Any advice? It looks like I'm going to have an eBay 'dispute' on
my hands--not a welcome prospect, since the seller's in another
country....
> 
>    Yes, I realize that after 30 years the aftertouch elements
(foam?) tend to wear out. On the other hand, the seller said, that
'everything's working well'.
> 
>   Any advice would be welcome.
> 
>   By the way, one good thing I've discovered is that the Teisco
100PM does indeed sound quite a lot like an ARP Pro Soloist -- which
is what I'd been hoping for. (I particularly wanted to get aftertouch
"growl" + filter + vibrato, and that's all there in ARPy glory, on the
Teisco 100P. Now if only my fingers weren't now in need of Tiger Balm,
from pressing so hard....)
> 
>   If anyone in the Kawai-Teisco group knows of fairly easy fixes for
the aftertouch, please let me know. [I'm hoping that, if I bring the
Teisco 100P to a synth tech, he might be able to insert a different
resitor or capacitor, that will boost the aftertouch response level -
-without buring out the circuits, of course! :-) ]
> 
>   Thanks much. Oh, if I may mention one other thing. There was
another Kawai/Teisco synth (the 400xx? perhaps?) that had aftertouch,
and four voices, with 8 presets & 8 user-storageable memories. If that
model might have the same "growl", I'd love to find out about it.
> 
>   Thanks,
> 
>                       Tony D.
> 
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