Yamaha CS80

hi there
my name is david
im 29 and i like coockies and the color blue.
well now that we've gone throug that, i've wanted a cs80 ever since i
bought my first vangelis album and anyone who talks crap about the
bladerunner soundtrack WILL become very very intimate with the heavy
duty skull cracking legs of my rhodes 73. So a fair warning ;)
i've been looking for a cs80 for about 9/10 years before i found one
i could actually aford.
Although it is in dead mint condition cosmetically, it has been in
repair for almost 1,5 years now......dont ask
but since im short on cash and space it doesnt bother me that much.
it also has the kenton midi kit, now all i need is some xtra polyph.
aftertouch keyboards, why doesnt anyone make a decent synth with that
feature anymore? its so brilliant and with all this dsp power going
around it shouldnt be too hard?
anyone in the vintage department i also own a cs60 and a cs30 a
rhodes 73 mk1, vp330 and an elka "service nightmare" synthex. which
is good fun. and some digital synths. I have owned a poly6, ms20,
vk7, roland jupiter 8 and some other stuff but nothing beats the cs80.
its so perfect, when i stil had it here i used to hug it and pet
it ...well i dont need to tell you that.

But i have a story to share, just before getting my cs80 from the UK
via a hellish journey, i told everyone i knew what i was looking for
and keep their eyes open. So one day my local snack bar owner comes
to me with a stroy that some old excentric rich guy from around the
block died and his son was getting rid of dad's gadgets including "a
very heavy, big and knob infested yamaha that no one seemed to
understand" hmmmm....... so i said does it have a label, a name? Yes
yamaha cs800 or something! So what does he want for it? well around
500 dollar (mind you going rate for a mint cs80 was 2000 pounds!) so
after thanking satan for answering my prayers i made an appointment
for the very next day. Sunrise...im happy.. bouncing all over the
place only to hear that some french guy came that very night and took
it with him.... i now hate the french...whats the moral of the
story??? Never trust satan! and the french!

i had to share that frustration with you guys, sorry 'bout that
He krs that mod sounds pretty sweet what are your plans with that?

best david

Does this particular CS80have a yellow mark underneath one key? If so, it´s
Thighpaulsandra´s old one which once got tossed off its stand by Julian Cope
(the Archdrude must be a lot stronger than he appears...). Tim took it to a
repair shop (a big one) and never heard of his CS-80 again for years. He´s
hoping to get it back some day or other, though...

There´s an even better rumour around "CS-80s I didn´t get"... a friend of
mine spotted one at a fleamarket in the back of some pick-up of a Turkish
trader... he asked 150 DM (less than 70 US$) for that organ. This particular
friend also picked up a Moog 12 Stage Phaser for 150 bucks at the same
fleamarket, and a Bohm Soundlab...

Caveat emptor. Buyer beware.

Stephen

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----- Original Message -----
From: "sir_analogue" <barbara_Streisand@...>
To: <yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 7:30 PM
Subject: [yamahacs80] cs80 serial " i dont know since its in repairs"
reporting for latrine duty


> hi there
> my name is david
> im 29 and i like coockies and the color blue.
> well now that we've gone throug that, i've wanted a cs80 ever since i
> bought my first vangelis album and anyone who talks crap about the
> bladerunner soundtrack WILL become very very intimate with the heavy
> duty skull cracking legs of my rhodes 73. So a fair warning ;)
> i've been looking for a cs80 for about 9/10 years before i found one
> i could actually aford.
> Although it is in dead mint condition cosmetically, it has been in
> repair for almost 1,5 years now......dont ask
> but since im short on cash and space it doesnt bother me that much.
> it also has the kenton midi kit, now all i need is some xtra polyph.
> aftertouch keyboards, why doesnt anyone make a decent synth with that
> feature anymore? its so brilliant and with all this dsp power going
> around it shouldnt be too hard?
> anyone in the vintage department i also own a cs60 and a cs30 a
> rhodes 73 mk1, vp330 and an elka "service nightmare" synthex. which
> is good fun. and some digital synths. I have owned a poly6, ms20,
> vk7, roland jupiter 8 and some other stuff but nothing beats the cs80.
> its so perfect, when i stil had it here i used to hug it and pet
> it ...well i dont need to tell you that.
>
> But i have a story to share, just before getting my cs80 from the UK
> via a hellish journey, i told everyone i knew what i was looking for
> and keep their eyes open. So one day my local snack bar owner comes
> to me with a stroy that some old excentric rich guy from around the
> block died and his son was getting rid of dad's gadgets including "a
> very heavy, big and knob infested yamaha that no one seemed to
> understand" hmmmm....... so i said does it have a label, a name? Yes
> yamaha cs800 or something! So what does he want for it? well around
> 500 dollar (mind you going rate for a mint cs80 was 2000 pounds!) so
> after thanking satan for answering my prayers i made an appointment
> for the very next day. Sunrise...im happy.. bouncing all over the
> place only to hear that some french guy came that very night and took
> it with him.... i now hate the french...whats the moral of the
> story??? Never trust satan! and the french!
>
> i had to share that frustration with you guys, sorry 'bout that
> He krs that mod sounds pretty sweet what are your plans with that?
>
> best david
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