Vintage Synth Repair

On Wednesday 02 January 2008 21:20, gregggibson wrote:
> > > Does anyone here know if this is a major repair job? I know that e-mu
> > > doesn't make synths anymore.
> >
> > They don't?  When did that happen?
> >
> > We used to be a service center for them,  until they pulled the plug
> > on that and went to "regional" ones.  I know the guy who got it,  he's
> > okay, but I wasn't too happy about that at the time.
> >
> > Are they still in business at all?
>
> The pk-6 family was their last keyboard synth, and it was phased out
> between 2005 and 2006 timeframe. They were bought out by Creative
> technologies, and now make just software and stuff. I've always liked
> them because they are/were one of the few synth makers (along with
> ensoniq and yamaha) who bothered to make their synths fully tunable,
> so you can experiment with temperaments other than the 12-tone equal.

Sounds like fun,  yeah,  not every player wants the same old stuff.  I have 
some real issues with Ensoniq,  they never wanted to part with any service 
info at all on *anything*,  even stuff that'd gone out of warranty and then 
out of production,  and they got an attitude when we were winding things 
down,  and cut us off.  Yamaha seemed to have a problem with crediting 
warranty repairs to the parts account for some reason,  and then right at the 
end they suggested returning some excess inventory we had on hand,  only 
didn't ever get around to mentioning the re-stocking charge,  which I didn't 
appreciate.  And I'm not even gonna get started on Korg...


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