Yamaha CS80

When it rains it pours.

After not working on keyboards for about a year, I'm now getting buried (in a good way). I starting with an Oberheim 4-Voice a few weeks ago. What a great sound!  My Polymoog is opened up, waiting, after a year of collecting dust, for it's final little fixes - mostly reseating/cleaning key cards.

I just had a CS80 delivered yesterday.  Very nice crating job.  Thick plywood crate with about 2" of closed-cell foam between the crate and the Yamaha.  Still waiting to power it up - I need help getting it up on a stand.  I really love the original Yamaha stand.  Since it locked onto the CS80 bottom, it allowed one to put it up without help.  I did see that this CS80 has the original music rest!  Haven't seen one of those in about 15 years (since I stupidly sold a mint CS80 with all accessories since I was getting divorced).

Tomorrow the real fun starts.  I will be picking up another CS80 and two more Polymoogs!  One of the Polymoogs is fully working (at least until we move it) and will be a reference in fixing up its two siblings.

So, by tomorrow evening, I should be able to post a picture of my (former) dining room with the two CS80s and three Polymoogs.  There might even be a third CS80 coming over soon.  I hope the floor can hold it all.

I will also probably be working on a Moog Prodigy soon.  I'm really looking forward to this.  I actually bought this back in 1980 from LaSalle Music in West Hartford, CT.  I got it for cost since I was going to mod it for one of the salesmen. He wanted it turned into a wearable/keytar.  I case the case in half between the keyboard and the panel and found this really cool adjustable angle brackets that were designed for rack-mount test equipment.  The result was that the panel was tiltable like a Minimoog!  I also outboarded the power supply and added white noise - and - guitar strap-locks.

Ended up the guy didn't want it so I sold it to a friend of mine who was playing lots of jazz fusion.  Thirty years later, he lives in L.A. (amazing jazz and classical pianist (http://scotthiltzik.com/) and still has the Prodigy.  Apparently, it's a big worse for wear, but I'm looking forward to bringing back to better than new!  FYI, it will likely be for sale after I fix it up.

Welcome back to the late '70s!  Lots of pictures to come!

 David