Yamaha CS80

hi
i sent you messages months ago about restoring my cs80 (i live in
france, but was seeking a way to send you the instrument, to avoid 2
travels in england)
by the way, if yamaha can produce some vco for a reasonnable price, i
m ready to participate to your petition, then, i d have a set of spare
vco you d maybe need to repair my cs (even if, in my opinion, i d more
need some vcas ....)
so, please, keep my adress aside when you ll start the petition !!!


--- In yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com, "kent_spong" <kent_spong@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> 
> As from tommorrow KSR will be providing a new service to all CS80 
> owners. In the form of a board repair by post instead of humping 
> their CS80 to KSR for small repairs and upgrades. In addition to 
> this I have decided to release the Dynamic Mono/Poly mod as a easy 
> to fit kit with everything needed to fit and play. All you have to 
> do is solder in the wires. 
> 
>    I have been thinking about taking the midi aspect of the 80 to a 
> new level and producing a kit form of this too. The one thing that 
> seems to be needed is more control of the front panel sliders and 
> switches and an ability to store programs. Since I restore all 
> vintage synths as well as 80's, time seems to be the hardest thing 
> to get to work this all out, but I have made a start with the basic 
> outline. 
> 
> Also some time towards the end of the year I will be refurbishing 
> glide strips with new gold plated spring and crushed velvet cover. 
> My 80 is now sporting a red velvet glide strip.  :)
> 
> I'm still having talks with Yamaha japan via Yamaha UK to get them 
> to run off a batch of IG00153 VCO's for me. So far I have got 
> a "well we might be able to do that" from them. So I am starting a 
> petition to get them to go for it as I feel they think there is not 
> enough people out there who want to buy brand new, dead stable, late 
> version CS80 VCO's.  Yes who indeed?
> 
> Till next time
> 
> Kent
>