Recently I downloaded these files from:
http://www.warningwillrobinson.com.au/S ... /Casio/FZ/
Yes, our highly regarded moderator Graham Meredith

but I also downloaded them years ago from sites that have disappeared from the internet and others from which only empty urls remain or had their content changed:
http://www.geocities.com/sirmidi/fzsample.html
http://www.reocities.com/sirmidi/fzsample.html (NoteIt, one of my all time favourites)
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/casiofz1/info
(after a long quest I was looking here for the magic CASIO "FZ to FZ" cable for data transfer between two FZ samplers through the serial port but still in vain untill Graham came up with the right wiring scheme from the notorious Jeff McClintock, founder of the FZ dump format but better known as the father of all VST synths creating SynthEdit !
http://www.synthedit.com/
One day, many years ago I loaded them into Awave sample editor on my Windows 98se PC and seeing this for the first time:

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I never understood why these strange garbled lines appeared behind the waveform names:

But now I'm convinced that this is caused by Casio's wrong desing for the FZ backlight.
I checked all the available factory disks but only a few of the the first files are corrupted:
Disk FL-1: Violin_Cello/Harpsichord/Marimba
Disk FL-2:Clarinet/Flute/Oboe/Trumpet Trombone
Disk FL-3: Electric Piano
Disk FL-4: Clavinet/Electric Bass/Electric Guitar
Disk FL-5: Acoustic Guitar/Slap Bass Wood Bass/vibraphone
Disk FL-6: Classical Guitar II/Percussion/Semi Acoustic Guitar/Tenor Alto Sax
Disk FL-A: Piano
And from the FZuser Group (Fzug): Fzug-04/06/07/08/11/13 and 15
Fortunately most of them can be retrieved in a "clean" state because they are also to be found ( sometimes renamed) in other collections. But when copied and being redistributed on the internet they behave like a virus and can pop up everywhere anytime. Al corrupted samples above can be loaded and played without pops and tics but when a FZ with a overdated el-panel (they last for about 3000 hours before they cause trouble) is used for an longer period from hours to perhaps days the damage can be severe. I experienced myself what can happen.
