Fairlight-CMI

Hi Gordon :)

I happen to know that Keele University in Staffordshire has a Series IIx
that is still working because I, a total non-musician but total
Fairlight fan, visit it every few years to 'tinkle its ivories'!

The guy in charge of  Music Technology Support Services, Cliff Bradbury,
is a really nice chap who has put up with hours of questions from me
about the CMI, and he even knows famed owner/producer Andy Richards.
Apparently Andy, who is from the same area, saw Keele's CMI and
immediately decided to buy one himself for session work for The Pet Shop
Boys and many others!

For some reason, although Cliff bought it new from Syco Systems in
London, it doesn't have the factory library of samples. However, it has
loads of 'Keele' samples, and I've played it (my dream since I was 12
years old) and it sounds great! Light pen still works too!

So many thanks to Cliff, and to our very own Norm Leete, who told me
about it, oh, about 15 years ago, in the days when the www was about 200
pages big!



Andrew.


--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
>
> So the various For Sale posts have started me thinking - much as I'd
love to own a Fairlight, I doubt if I'd have the disposable income to
buy one (even as an early mid-life-crisis-present to myself) or that I'd
use it all that much.
>
> I've never had a shot of one before, though, and I'd like to even if
only to say "Yeah I've used a Fairlight before..." ;-)
>
> To that end, is there anyone in the UK with a Fairlight that I could
book some time on, for an afternoon or so? The further north the better,
but it's an easy country to get around.
>
> And if anyone has a dead or semi-dead "unfinished project, some work
required" they want to shift, I'm open to offers...
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