Bloody h**l for £400 I'm willing to give it a shot

As per title, I need a 10 KB slider to replace one in which track had completely worn away.

Location: UK

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I really like its strings... Haha. From what I've read I think it might best be suited for percussive sounds? :P Percussive? Nah, I wouldn't say so. I do genuinely like its strings though. It won't emulate the rich ensemble sounds of other stringers, but that's not everything - sometimes you want s...

Everything's been on a downward spiral since the first hominid farted.

Oh I don't know about that, it's not unusual to see some bits of original gear gracing the rigs of those, shall we say, more experienced acts. As long as they get a decent service now and again a lot of that vintage stuff can still soldier on. The keyboards do ok too.

I really like its strings...

I think I remember a while back ol' Señor Doty saying that it's stoopid to talk about Model Ds since the first three were prototypes and not commercially produced. but then, he says a lot of stuff... http://hallofthewendigo.informe.com/forum/images/smilies/hmn.gif That quote attributed to me was not...

ninja6485 wrote:

knolan wrote: There's a Buddhist proverb about blind men, each touching a different part of an elephant, and arguing about what the elephant is like.

lol, touching its nob.

What was the general consensus vis-a-vis the system 55 reissue? They were supposedly faithful to the design of the originals.

Oh wow, this is a godsend. Hopefully will pave the way for a few other reissues. Expensive business though, so fingers crosed.

^Just finishing ordering one from them. Thanks to the strong pound it still works out a fair bit cheaper even accounting for P&P and presumably 20% import VAT. I would say case closed but... it looks like I'll need a replacement 10K Linear slider for the synthesiser section. If anyone's got one or k...

Nice work! always got respect for people that save weird & wonderful old gear from the skip.

Good Lord above!

Oh well at least they're uk based... I had completely forgotten about that site.

Thanks for going to the effort tracking one down, I appreciate it.

If anyone has a spare S10430 keying divider for sale please let me know.

Thanks

(based in UK but willing to pay intl. shipping)

Oh wow, I had a chance on one of these last year but I changed my mind. Kinda glad I did now!

Looks like it uses a lot of tantalum caps in what I assume are the individual keying circuits for each section. Worth replacing the six associated with the dead keys and see if that helps.