Crumar Musical Instruments User Group.

Hello,
I don't have the elka yet, the seller is kind of strange and has waited
until paypal put the funds in their account before they will ship. it's kind
of silly, but, i guess that's how they want it to be.

it should be on it's way soon, though, and i'm kind of excited to see how it
sounds and stuff.

Where did you get linear pots for your performer? I need to replace some of
the old ones in mine that are broken off. I know Piher makes them, but I
hear people using other brands in there too, that fit similarily.

With my performer, the strings didn't work at all. The brass worked fine,
and the volume for the brass and the main volume worked fine.  You could
have bad SSM2040/2030 chips, or the tantalums could be fried. The tantalums
are the little blue capaciters that are on the power supply decoupling, they
are very small. They look like solid blue rice krispies. You'll also notice
many of them on the underside of the keyboard, there is one for each key.
That will help you identify them, if you didn't know what they were. The
ones you are looking for are on the board connected to the heat sink. I
could get more in detail about all of it if you wanted me to. You should
test all of the voltage regulators and see if they are still working. Then
you have to test each output voltage from the board. The green wires are all
ground. Do the lights for 8' and 16' strings light up? How about the light
for brass ON?

What does your performer do? Does it play at all? Tell me what's going on
with it when you try to use it and then i can help you more.

Funny that you read the old messages, that was a good thing to do. If you
read carefully, it seems that most of the time, I seem to be the only one
who seems to say anything worth while about repairing the performer. When I
got mine, I had a lot of trouble finding help, and I found one person that
helped me out with it, and was very patient.

When I get the Elka, I promise that I'll tell you everything about it, and
I'll send you samples of how it sounds. I can't wait for it to get here.

J.

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> Message: 1
>    Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 17:40:23 -0800 (PST)
>    From: Homer Jerome <toddhomer@...>
> Subject: How's the ELKA going?
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> Hi Jason, Wondering how the ELKA turned out>? also,
> I've been working on my performer and getting the
> right linear Pots in it. and it still dos'nt work
> right!. Then, I checked old messages on egroups and
> noticed that you had the same problem: when you un
> plug the bottom circut board there is no change in
> sounds available, and all the volume pots have no
> effect either. only the signal out seems to work as
> well. Can you tell me what these voltage regulators,
> and tantalum capacitors look like?; describe them?..
> I would really appreciate it, and anything I can do
> for you just let me know! I'm so frustrated that I'm
> thinking about bidding on the currant ebay performer
> going now for $200. THANKS -Todd
>