Vintage Synth Repair

Hello everybody, this is my first post.

Recently I moved to a house whose previous owner used to work in a
studio in the 80's, and after the business ended he got some studio
stuff which he eventually gave me.

One of them is an ARP 3620.

Right when I openned it, noticed a very weird plug, which I thought
was supposed to go on a DC adapter for power.

After much internet research I found the manuals, and from what I
understood, this is merely an "auxiliar" keyboard, to be plugged on an
ARP 2600 (hence the weird plug).

Am I correct? Since I don't have an ARP 2600, the 3620 is useless?

Thanks in advance,

max, from Brasil.

--- In vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com, "Max Mismetti" wrote:
> Since I don't have an ARP 2600, the 3620 is useless?

Hi Max,
Yes, the 3620 keyboard controller is specifically for the Arp 2600 and
is not very useful otherwise. 

Depending on its condition, you could probably sell it on ebay. I saw
one go for about $700 US earlier this year. But it was in excellent
condition, as I recall. 

I recently resored my 3620 by replacing the key bushings, cleaning the
three contact buses, cleaning the keys, and calibrating the output
voltage.

David

It seems to be in great condition, I'd only need to plug it in to test all keys and knobs and 
see if it all works.

$700 would be nice, too bad it must be hell to ship it from Brazil to the US...

max


--- In vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com, "David" <Ginahoy@a...> wrote:

>
> Hi Max,
> Yes, the 3620 keyboard controller is specifically for the Arp 2600 and
> is not very useful otherwise. 
> 
> Depending on its condition, you could probably sell it on ebay. I saw
> one go for about $700 US earlier this year. But it was in excellent
> condition, as I recall. 
> 
> I recently resored my 3620 by replacing the key bushings, cleaning the
> three contact buses, cleaning the keys, and calibrating the output
> voltage.
> 
> David
>