According to Kent Spong, there were 786 units made (the first being 1001, the final one 1786).
Vangelis has, I think, nine of them.
Stephen
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Datum: Tue, 04 Dec 2012 19:14:54 +0000
Von: blchrr@...
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Betreff: [yamahacs80] Re: any other MIDI retrofit kit ?
My mistake, my first Cs80 was serial number 1014, bought from Peter
Forrest
at the turn of the century of thereabouts.
My current CS80 which ive had since about 2003 has a serial number around
1200 i think.
I always thought there were about 2000 made, but perhaps only 800-1000
after
all. I wonder how many are still working and how many got broken up for
parts or scrapped? Maybe 500ish still survive?
I bet Vangelis still has a few hahaa ;)
Ill never part with mine
My first Cs80 was serial number 900 something.
AFAIK from my times being Yamaha Product Specialist, older Yamaha
products for public market start serial numbering from 1000 up. If
there
are some machines with numbers under 1000, they are prototypes or
testing pieces.
Maybe that's the reason for a mistake.
Newer products use different coding system, not just simple numbering.
Daniel Forro
On 3 Dec, 2012, at 4:40 AM, David Rogoff wrote:
On Dec 2, 2012, at 11:32 AM, scistudio440 <zevault@...> wrote:
Thanks.
1000 made you say ? So synthmuseum is wrong claiming they were 2000
units then ?
I'm pretty sure. I've never seen/heard of a serial number under 1000
or over 2000.
