Vintage Synth Repair

I too have used the guitar wire fix on my ARP Quadra, worked better 
than the Quarda did as a whole. Thank goodness ARP decided to put a 
hinge on the hood of that beast! Seems like I was under the hood 
fixing that mother more than my old '63 Plythmoth Valient! Bt when 
she worked.....ohh she was nice!

--- In vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com, John Keeley 
<jwkeeley2003@y...> wrote:
> I used the unwrapped b or e strings .Can't remember what one.That 
was 1980ish.
>   I do remember that at the time an ARP repair center told me to 
use guitar strings.
>                                             John 
> 
> dizz@e... wrote:
> Just curious, are you talking about using just the copper/brass 
that wraps
> around the core string? I haven't had to replace j-wires yet but I 
do have a
> couple that may need replaced some day.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> dizz
> 
> Quoting John Keeley <jwkeeley2003@y...>:
> 
> > I used an OMNI II in the old days.I stilll have it ,but it dosn't 
work
> > anymore.
> >    I used guitar strings of same diameter to replace wires and 
they worked
> > fine.
> >                                John
> >
> >
> > miaumarramiau <miaumarramiau@y...> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> >    I own an arp omni 2, and the keyboard is not triggering 
correctly
> > the notes. I have opened it and found that it uses little metal 
wires
> > in each key in order to make contact with a bigger 'ground' bar.
> >
> > The problem is that several keys have its wires missing and I 
can't
> > seem to find such a metal with its flexibility and conductance 
near
> > me.
> > I have heard that other arp keyboards from that time worked that 
way,
> > so I thougt some of you might know which kind of metal do I need 
to
> > repair it and where can I find it.
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> >
> > Hardware_Mister.
> > Francisco J.
> >
> >
> >
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