Duck season! Rabbit season! Analog season!
2010-08-07 by David
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
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
