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Hi Pat,

I think it was Vintage Synthesizers by Mark Vail where you came across that
number. I?m quite sure most of them still exist in one form or the other,
but -- alas -- some might in fact have been taken to the dumpsters (my
former tech took loads of Farfisas to a local dumpster, and one day he even
threw away a small synthesizer in a suitcase).

As for Vangelis, he had nine CS-80s, if I remember correctly what Raphael
Preston told me. Vangelis used to have studios in London (which was later
defunct, then one in Paris (that Glass House on top of his house which some neighbours disliked),
Rome (Hotel), Athens and New York. If you take into consideration that Vangelis got
himself one of the first production models and had it shipped?from Japan through
Russia by train?(Transsib) you can be sure that he owned?at least one, if not more CS-80s
that were in no way temperature-stabilized. He sure replaced them with more
reliable ones later on as soon as those were available. Out of these nine, one was borrowed to Suzanne Ciani (I guess she has returned it in the meantime).?Somewhere on the
net, there?s a nice picture with Vangelis playing two CS-80s stacked on top
of each other.

I sure wouldn?t hesitate to gut a 50 or 60 for spares.

Stephen

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