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Rare early-80's Dutch monosynth

Post by Sexor » Fri Nov 04, 2011 12:53 pm

I was browsing the Dutch classifieds pages when I came across this:

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Apparently it's called the "E-Pro Mini Synth", designed and manufactured in the Netherlands. Only a handful were made.

At a glance, I can't find any more information on this synth at all, except that it's chock full of Curtis chips.

It does undeniably look quite similar to a more famous Dutch monosynth, the Synton Syrinx:

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I wonder if there is a connection.
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Re: Rare early-80's Dutch monosynth

Post by Desecrated » Fri Nov 04, 2011 1:23 pm

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Re: Rare early-80's Dutch monosynth

Post by Sexor » Fri Nov 04, 2011 2:19 pm

I wish! The guy is asking €700 for it!!
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Re: Rare early-80's Dutch monosynth

Post by calyx93 » Fri Nov 04, 2011 3:44 pm

The company name was DGS - not sure what that stands for, but it appears they made two synths - the Scorpion and the Mini Synth. Check out these links and images.

http://nonsolosynth.blogspot.com/2008/0 ... rpion.html
http://nonsolosynth.blogspot.com/2008/0 ... synth.html

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Re: Rare early-80's Dutch monosynth

Post by Sir Ruff » Fri Nov 04, 2011 5:20 pm

Wow... cool! Too bad there's not a better pic of the right hand side, but I guess you can guess what most of the functions are.
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Re: Rare early-80's Dutch monosynth

Post by Tidda » Sat Nov 05, 2011 1:03 am

I know this one as the MiniSynth from the Dutch company E-Pro.
They also made the 'Spirit' which is identical to the DGS Scorpion except for the colour.
From DGS there is also the Scorpion Plus and the Spider. I believe the Spider is targeted to compete with the Arp 2600.

That's about all I know of these synths. Very rare synths all of these.
If you have the money available, €700 is a tempting offer.

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Re: Rare early-80's Dutch monosynth

Post by Sexor » Sat Nov 05, 2011 11:47 pm

How about adding these creatures to the VSE database?
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Re: Rare early-80's Dutch monosynth

Post by gordonmerrick » Sun Nov 06, 2011 1:28 am

I really like the layout of this.
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Re: Rare early-80's Dutch monosynth

Post by Sir Ruff » Sun Nov 06, 2011 5:01 pm

Tidda wrote:€700 is a tempting offer.
Surely moreso if you're a collector, rather than someone who intends to use it!
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Re: Rare early-80's Dutch monosynth

Post by Hair » Wed Jan 18, 2012 7:33 pm

bit of a bump, but I was poking around and found this tiny picture of a flyer for the Spider

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Original page: http://flyers.syntigroep.nl/dgs.htm

Definitely looks unique haha
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Re: Rare early-80's Dutch monosynth

Post by pflosi » Wed Jan 18, 2012 10:17 pm

Nice, never seen those :)
calyx93 wrote: Image
Tidda wrote: From DGS there is also the Scorpion Plus and the Spider. I believe the Spider is targeted to compete with the Arp 2600.
Do my eyes fool me or does the logo next to the 'Scorption' font remind you of something...?
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Re: Rare early-80's Dutch monosynth

Post by Sweep » Thu Jan 19, 2012 12:40 am

Yes, I thought `Synton Syrinx' the moment I saw it, as well.

Synton was Felix Visser's company, as I recall. Maybe try Googling Visser's name in connection with this synth/company?
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Re: Rare early-80's Dutch monosynth

Post by pflosi » Thu Jan 19, 2012 7:35 am

I can't help but it's reminds me of this in that pic:

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