Yamaha CS80

----- Original Message -----

From: rlmusic

To: yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 9:57 AM

Subject: RE: [yamahacs80] Hi

Hi Stephen

 

I use a top CS80 restoration guy in the UK. So if you are able to get yours to England then why not contact the following:

 

Name: Kent Spong

Email: kent_spong@...

 

Kent has restored 20 x CS80’s for me which I have sold mainly into the professional domain in the last 12 months.

 

Regards

 

Richard Lawson

www.rlmusic.co.uk

Tel: +44 (0) 1189 472474

Mobile: 07986 470853

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: wavecomputer360 [mailto:wavecomputer360@...]
Sent: 12 August 2004 10:35
To: yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [yamahacs80] Hi

 

Hi folks,

 

just wanted to introduce myself, my name is Stephen Parsick, I´m from Germany and I´ve been a avid CS-80 user for years. I purchased my CS-80 in 2000 from a studio musician in France who was about to retire to Australia (and would have taken his CS to a dumpster, hadn´t there been some buyer for it). My CS is #1791, and apart from minor issues it plays well and looks great. Does anybody know a courageous technician in Germany who wouldn´t be afraid of touching a CS-80?

 

Regards,

 

Stephen.

 

 

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Hi all,
It has come to my attention that in the last year or so I have found
that no one in the U.K. is restoring CS80's. Only two other people
in the world at the moment will even look at an 80 one being Kevin
Lightner although he told me that he don't like working on them
much, the other being The Old Crow how is very good at doing 80's
But I can say with hand on heart that no one in the world does more
to an 80 than me. With all the new upgrades comming soon from KSR to
make these baby's even better than they were plus the full
restoration work that I do already. For example how many of you have
got unison on your 80. Yep all 16 osc playing together, it will
fracture a cows pelvis from 800 yards away I can tell you.

I love the CS80 with all my being, always did and always will,
I love comming up with new ways to make them sound better and play
like they should. Yes it true you can get one for a couple of grand
but every time it will be almost unplayable and I shuld know I've
seen 18 cs80's this year alone that cost about that much and all of
them needed exstensive repairs so that there new owners could use
them. There is alot of people going around saying that 80's go out
of tune very easily and that is a common problem with them. Well
they are talking out of there arse because every 80 will say in tune
once done, only the one's that were not tuned correctly go out of
tune every three days.

Till next time
KSR

--- In yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com, "kent_spong" <kent_spong@h...>
wrote:

> It has come to my attention that in the last year or so I have

found

> that no one in the U.K. is restoring CS80's.

Kent - welcome to the group. I know you'll be a very valuable
member!

> With all the new upgrades comming soon from KSR to
> make these baby's even better than they were plus the full
> restoration work that I do already. For example how many of you

have

> got unison on your 80. Yep all 16 osc playing together,

This sounds great! What is KSR? Wild guess: Kent Spong Research?
Is there a website? When will this be out? I thought of doing
something similar, but like some other polysynths (A6? Mono/Poly?)
have: hit one key, all 8 voices in unison, hit 2, get 4 & 4, etc.
It would be nice to have a mode locking it in mono, maybe with
choices of priority (high note, low note, last note).

> There is alot of people going around saying that 80's go out
> of tune very easily and that is a common problem with them. Well
> they are talking out of there arse because every 80 will say in

tune

> once done, only the one's that were not tuned correctly go out of
> tune every three days.

I totally agree. I drives me nuts reading all the articles about
how unstable it is. One of the big advantages of using linear VCO,
instead of exponential, is better stability, since the exponential
convertor is where most of the error pops in. Of course, it also
lets you bend notes down to DC!!

David