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I saw the VZ10m on e-bay a few weeks ago, but the price seemed a bit high, and although a replacement machine might be a good idea at some point, I did not invest in it at the time.
I have never ever seen 'breaking for parts' Hohners or VZ1/ VZ10m's at all, and I regularly search evil-bay..
However, I did get a pointer from Vucan who is on this list and lives in Serbia, (thanks so much Vucan) to a 'breaking for parts' VZ1 in his hometown ..
Serbia is just next door to me here in Bulgaria, so it looks as if that's going ahead.. ( Mega Fantastically GREAT! )
It needs a VZ10m backlight, which I bought new from Germany a few months ago, and it has the VZ1 logo'd front screen, which I may swap over, along with the display.
So I'll have a unique and custom phase distortion Casio, (( a VZ10m 'badged' as a VZ1 !! :-))
I can't wait to get the screen installed and working, as I've missed being able to use the VZ10m really a lot...
The voices its capable of are in my opinion truly unique. (although time -consuming of course, but then that's probably half the fun :-) .
I might buy another, if I can find one at a good price, although the spares situation is sad..and I have been really miserable thinking that I might have had to break it, and sell it for spares..
and I know its sacrilege, but has anyone tried this?? ;
TubeOhm PhaseWave PD (Phase Distortion Synthese VST Plugin)
thanks to analogmonster, Matt, Vucan et al for the help..
richard
bulgaria