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Re: any other MIDI retrofit kit ?

2012-12-04 by blchrr@homecall.co.uk

My mistake, my first Cs80 was serial number 1014, bought from Peter Forrest 
at the turn of the century of thereabouts.
My current CS80 which ive had since about 2003 has a serial number around 
1200 i think.
I always thought there were about 2000 made, but perhaps only 800-1000 after 
all. I wonder how many are still working and how many got broken up for 
parts or scrapped? Maybe 500ish still survive?
I bet Vangelis still has a few hahaa ;)
Ill never part with mine 


> My first Cs80 was serial number 900 something.  
> 
>> AFAIK from my times being Yamaha Product Specialist, older Yamaha  
>> products for public market start serial numbering from 1000 up. If  there 
>> are some machines with numbers under 1000, they are prototypes  or 
>> testing pieces.  
>> 
>> Maybe that's the reason for a mistake.  
>> 
>> Newer products use different coding system, not just simple numbering.  
>> 
>> Daniel Forro  
>> 
>> On 3 Dec, 2012, at 4:40 AM, David Rogoff wrote:  
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Dec 2, 2012, at 11:32 AM, scistudio440 <zevault@...> wrote:  
>>> 
>>>> Thanks.
>>>> 1000 made you say ? So synthmuseum is wrong claiming they were 2000  
>>>> units then ?  
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I'm pretty sure.  I've never seen/heard of a serial number under  1000 
>>> or over 2000.
>> 
>  
>

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