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RE: [vintagesynthrepair] Scored!...PAIA StringsNThings

2009-11-11 by ken k

I've been playing with PAIA stuff since the 70's when i built there P8700J microprocessor controlled synthesizer, a really big thing at the time, as it was one of the first (and most affordable) polyphonic sythns that could be scaled, also.

A lot of stuff still shows up on EBay and they are now into MIDI-controlled analogue synths, along with their lineup of tube pre-amps, vocorders and theremins.

The stringznthings was a nifty variation of the p2700 as i remember and was quite popular. they have always used decent quality components, so it should be playable without issue for some time to come.

Founder John Simonton may have passed on last year, but the company lives on!!

Kenny



To: vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com
From: painintheamp@...
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:16:23 +0000
Subject: [vintagesynthrepair] Scored!...PAIA StringsNThings

I found it at a local used thing-a-ma-gig store

Everything works but the very highest key sticks and that's only because of how it sits in the case

First put out in '78. You can mix piano tone with strings or get a cool pipe organ type sound w/ or w/o strings

Separate sustains/sustain pedal jacks for piano and strings

and a tremolo ckt to fatten things up



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