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- CS80 Music Library · 1 records · 8 columns · Owner unfrostedpoptart · Updated 2008-12-28Group Music CD Library
- CS80s in the world · 41 records · 10 columns · Owner unfrostedpoptart · Updated 2013-12-21List of people's keyboards
- Tech / Repair companies and people · 5 records · 8 columns · Owner unfrostedpoptart · Updated 2015-02-03Name, Address, Telephone, City, Email
Database table
CS80s in the world
List of people's keyboards
41 records · Owner unfrostedpoptart · Created 2004-08-13 · Updated 2013-12-21
| Record | Model (CS80, CS60, etc) | Serial Number | Year purchased | Cosmetic condition | Electronic Condition | Accessories (pedal, stand, etc) | Modifications | Location (as specific or vague as you want) | Owner | Other Comments2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CS80 | ??? | 1986 (sold 1989) | Very Good. Minor tolex scuffs | Very good. Needed a couple of minor op-amp replacements & tuning. | All: Stand, Gig Bag, Music Stand, Expression Pedal, Sustain Pedal. | Albany/Troy (then - don't remember who I sold it to) | ??? | supposedly belonged to Stevie Wonder before I had it. | |
| 2 | CS60 | ??? | 1981 (sold 1984) | Excellent | Excellent | All: Stand, Gig Bag, Music Stand, Expression Pedal, Sustain Pedal. | Painted all colored knobs and wood black. Rewired filter EGs as ADSR. Added note-on LEDs under keyboard (makes tuning easier!), added casters to case, like CS80 | bought NYC, Boston for awhile, sold in Troy, NY | ??? | |
| 3 | CS80 | ??? | 1995 (sold a few months later) | Very Good. Minor tolex scuffs | Very good. Needed some minor repair on modulation routing. | All: Stand, Gig Bag, Music Stand, Expression Pedal, Sustain Pedal. | Bought & sold San Fernando Valley/L.A. | ??? | why did I sell it!?!?! | |
| 4 | CS80 | 1408 | 2001 | Very good condition as the machine was studio-kept and never roaded | 100% functional; all non-custom chips replaced & power supply overhauled, full calibration performed | Instrument stand with carrying bag, music easel, set of 4 casters, original owner's manual & service maual | None at this time | Fairmont, WV, USA | Scott Rider | I've reverse-engineered the IG00153 VCO and the IG00156 filter chip. A modular version of the filter pairing is available as the MOTM-480 from www.synthtech.com |
| 5 | CS80 | 1995 | Good | Great | None | None | Project Studio, Chester County, PA, US | Scott L Holmes | Traded an EMU MPS+ Orchestra for it. | |
| 6 | CS80 | 1646 | 2004 | Very Good | All works. Full CMOS/cap refurb | legs, expression pedal | none (yet!) | Irvine, California | RL | went off to London end of 2005 |
| 7 | CS60 | 2002 (had another 1978-1983) | Excellent | Needs tuning/calibration | No pedal or stand- have case | heavily modified with CV i/o, touch switch | In my garage until I move to bigger digs | Rory McDonald | Also have a SY-1, Yamaha's first synth! | |
| 8 | CS50 | 2714 | 2004 | Very good | Very good, one voice of sine wave is not working. | Legs, music stand | Factory installed tuning mod | Georgia, USA | Jim Combs | I bought this from Doug Chandler in KC, Kansas. He bought it for the price of a gas bill from the daughter of a music store owner in Colorado. This unit was evidently a store demo that wound up with the daughter, who moved to KC. Doug said it didn't look like it had ever been opened much less played. The tolex is immaculate and with a minor tuning, plays like new.. |
| 9 | CS-50 | 2263 | 2001? | Very good | Has one problematic voice card that I can't get to match the others, two dead keys | Legs | none | Pittsburgh PA | Mark Gaudio | Semi retired since I acquired a CS-60, due to my love of the ribbon on the 60. Previous owner was in Wisconsin. |
| 10 | CS-60 | plate missing | 2003 | Good, missing lid, has some chips on wood paneling, including one large gouge on the side. | Very good, the only issue is power caqble is very short, and I'm not motivated enough to disassemble it enough to attach a longer one. | none | none | Pittsburgh, PA | Mark Gaudio | |
| 11 | CS80 | 1423 | 2004 | Very good | Won't power up, blows fuses. | none | Previous owner updated chips on the aftertouch board, power issue started after this. | Pittsburgh PA | Mark Gaudio | |
| 12 | CS50 | 2306 | 2004 | Good | Great | none | none | California | Ben Kessler | |
| 13 | CS80 | 1480 | 07/01/05 | Poor | Poor | None | None | Marietta, GA | Wayne Griffin | Dormant for 15 years in a Louisiana basement- heavy soil and wear =$500… future uncertain. |
| 14 | CS80 | 1048 | 1982, second owner; Roy Orbison, Sherman Oaks, CA. Original Owner | Pretty good. | One set of M cards doesn't transmit/play aftertouch signal. Strange twang occurs if sustain is too long. Pitch bend ribbon doesn't bend the note up a complete octave from F#4 to C6. | The carrying case for the accessories was pretty well clapped out. Have replaced the Exp. and Sustain pedals. Plexi-music stand was missing when purchased | Kenton retrofit midi. Stable oscillators, so it doesn't need tuning too often | Memphis, TN | Tommy Priakos | Hope to get it refurbed this summer/fall ('05) |
| 15 | CS-80 | 1246 | 2005 | good | good | no | temp. mod from service bulitin | Germany | ||
| 16 | CS80 | 1512 | 1979 | A few scuffs & scrapes | Excellent: restored & calibrated August 2005 | pedals, stand, plexi music rack is round here somewhere..., Factory service manual | none | Minneapolis, MN | Tim Siefkes | missing thumb knobs for attaching legs |
| 17 | CS80 | 1225 | 2005 | excellent | a voice need to be fixed and the synth need to be restored | sustain pedal+volume | not yet | france | georges poropat | |
| 18 | CS80 | 1470 | 2005 | Good: few bent sliders, scratch on rolodex here and there. | Great: everything is in great working order | have stand, and manual. Missing: rolodex top and everything else. | none | Santa Monica, CA USA | Scott Metzger | This cs80 has never been gigged. Scott Page from PinkFlyd, Toto owned this synth prior to me, and was the only owner. This CS80 never left his studio, and it will never leave mine. :) |
| 19 | CS80 | 1194 | 2000 | excellent, minor tolex scuffs but the main panel is pristine | Pretty good, just need to take my time and do a complete callibration | the original stand with pedalsand the top lid | replaced a good portion of the CMOS IC's, but not all (yet) | The Netherlands | Bought it from a lady who had in sitting in her living room for the longest time. | |
| 20 | CS80 | 1466 | 2006 | Good | Everyting works (at least for now!) | Stand and expression pedal | None | Istanbul, Turkey | Mert Topel | www.merttopel.com |
| 21 | CS-50 | 2600 | 1998 | Good | KAS is not working, so the keyboard is non working, I'm using the synth with CV | Stand | I inserted CV control for the 4 voices, and I'm going to add the Keton retrofit to control some parameters. | Buenos Aires, Argentina | Sebastian Cordoves | |
| 22 | CS80 | 1013 | 1999 | Good | Good, needs callibration and wants renovation and modifications | All, Owners Manual, Service Manual | Not yet | Gifu, Japan | Daniel Forro, Forrotronics | Bought in Bratislava, Slovakia, from christian radio TWR, it was probably a gift from the West after changes in Eastern Europe in 1989. Nobody understood, what it is, and it was so heavy, so it was not used. |
| 23 | CS80 | 1507 | 2005 | 9/10 | 100%:CMOS replaced | Kentin midi | Phila.,Pa | Ron Joseph | Bought from Chicago area off of Ebay | |
| 24 | CS80 | 1507 | 2005 | 9/10 | 100%:CMOS replaced | Kenton midi | Phila.,Pa | Ron Joseph | Bought from Chicago area off of Ebay | |
| 25 | CS80 | 1449 | 2005 | scuffs on Tolex around the bottom line | very good, cmos replaced | stand, lid, expression pedal | none | the Netherlands | Erik | original owner Rick van der Linden (Ekseption), got it for free after winning a contest in Japan |
| 26 | CS80 | 1589 | 2005 | very good | excellent, cmos replaced | stand, lid | none | the Netherlands | Erik | after powering up, immidiatly in tune, allthough the vco's have temp.codes on them |
| 27 | CS80 | 1025 | 2006 | Good, minor tolex scuffs. | Everything works but the unit needs to be callibrated. The electronics is also in need of complete electronic overhaul since nothing has been done to the ubit in years ... | Original stand, expression pedal and sustain pedal. | None | Sweden | Niklas Eriksson | |
| 28 | CS80 | 1536 | 1995 | Pretty good | 90% | Lid- That's it | None | North West England | Ade Crane | The ribbon is missing and I'm having trouble with every 7th note on the second synth- apart from that it's unbelievable- it's doing all my album at the moment. |
| 29 | CS80 | 1978 | 2004 | Very good | Restored | Original service manual and spare boards | Kenton midi | Hampshire, UK | Rob Belcher | Full KSR80 restoration all CMOS replaced |
| 30 | CS40M | 1546 | 1990 | Very good | working | No | No | Argentina | Guillermo Grinovero | |
| 31 | CS80 | 1284 | 1990 | Very good | Out of tune | Volume and sustain pedals, stand | No | Argentina | Guillermo Grinovero | |
| 32 | CS80 | 138* | 2007 | very good - tolex worn a little | good - stock other then supply caps changed | Sustain Pedal,Legs, Owner Manual, Brochure | none | Canada | purchased from original owner - been stored since 1981 | |
| 33 | CS80 | 1055 | On sale via Ebay 02/08 | 8/10 | 8/10 | none | none | Ca, USA | Remains anonymous | |
| 34 | CS-80 | 1585 | 1986 | Immaculate/Pristine | 100% | Stand & Bag, Volume & Sustain Pedals, Music Stand, Castors | None | UK | Tom Szakaly | Bought for £250 |
| 35 | CS-80 | 1663 | 2008 | Decent/Fair. Will be better when I repair a few Tolex scuffs. | 100% | Volume & Sustain. | Had a Cannon mains socket installed in side near PSU. Have replaced mains lead, but hole in casing remains. Will patch with Tolex off-cut. | UK | Tom Szakaly | Bought for £1300 as a 'spare' with a few faults but fixed her up. Slightly tatty as it has been gigged heavily. Used to belong to Barclay James Harvest..! |
| 36 | CS 60 | 1070 | 2003 | excellent | very good | stand | Kenton midi retrofit in fall 2004 | Moscow, RUSSIA | Tolmachev Oleg E. | |
| 37 | CS80 | 1703 | 1980 | Excellent | Excellent | None | None | Alexandria, VA | Arun Majumdar | aka GalaxiesMerge on YouTube - video of the CS80 being played is online |
| 38 | CS80 | 1096 | 2010 | Very good | Very good, refurbished | n.a. | Kenton MIDI, unison mod | Finland | Jussi Kulomaa | RL Music |
| 39 | CS80 | 1277 | 2007 From hillbilly in Wisconsin. Says he buddy got it from a professor's estate sale. | Fucking hillbillies burned it with cigarettes | Fully!!! Restored July 2010 | Stand, Pedal, Legs, Leg Bag, Lid, Music Stand | None | Chicago, IL | Mike Borish | All new electrolytics, CMOS, Op-Amps, Precision Trimmers, Yeah! |
| 40 | CS80 | 1670 | 2013 | Tolex worn out in some places. | One faulty printed resistor under one key. | stand | led according kit | France | Joachim Milson | |
| 41 | CS-80 | 1458 | 2013 Dec | Very Good | Working perfect | Case | Doing a Kenton Midi Retro Fit | BRISBANE, Australia | It's going into a Studio to be Loved |