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I'm figuring out what you can do in a Yahoo Group. I created a table
on the Database Page. Anyone should be able to add records to put in
info about CS80s (and related) they own.

It would be great to build up a good list of what's out there! From
what I've read, there were maybe a few thousand CS80s built. Anyone
have a better idea? Any guesses as to how many are still alive?

David

David,

I've long been under the impression that only 2000 of these were made (like the Jupiter 8). I can no longer remember where I came by this info, sorry. For whatever reason, it seems like Yamaha is determinedly mum on the subject of their obsolete lines.

From some of the comments I've seen over the years, I'm betting a few hundred of them have fallen victim to 'dumpster' syndrome (too old/too heavy/too expensive/acting too flakey to be worth moving and repairing). I once read that Vangelis bought an additional half dozen for spare parts. I think this is somewhat exaggerated - he may have had residences/studios in a few cities/countries, far apart, and wanted access to the -80 in each. Maybe one or two were for spares. Maybe this is completely apocryphal. Would be great if someone who actually knew would speak up.

Concerning the 'spares' issue, comments along these lines I've ever seen has specified a dodgy -50 or -60 as 'organ donor'.

Pat

Hi Pat,

I think it was Vintage Synthesizers by Mark Vail where you came across that
number. Im quite sure most of them still exist 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
defunc(that Glass House on top of his house which some neighbours disliked),
Rome (Hotel), Athens and New York. If you take into considethat Vangelis got
himself one of the first production models and shipped from JApan through
Russia (Transsib) you can be sure that he 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. Somewhere on the
net, theres a nice picture with Vangelis playing two CS-80s stacked on top
of each other.

I sure wouldnt hesitate to gut a 50 or 60 for spares.

Stephen

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On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 09:15:40AM +0200, wavecomputer360 wrote:

I sure wouldnt hesitate to gut a 50 or 60 for spares.

You should get one anyway. The -50 in particular is a wodnerful
synth with a different "feel" to the -80. Not to slag the -60; I've
just not used one much.

--
David Evans dfevans@...
Ph.D. Candidate, Computer/Synth Junkie
University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer
Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual