K5synth

Hi Lars,

The K5 is a true classic. I sold the Kawai K3, K5,K4 keyboards and modules as well as the original Kurzweil K1000 line when they were being manufactured. I have a K5, K5m (needs backlight) and the K5000. Vibrant tones from these harmonic beauties.

Great to see your qualifications as well.

Welcome. 

Bruce

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> On Oct 8, 2013, at 11:53 AM, Paul Mehlhaff <Mehlhaffer@...> wrote:
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> And there are many of us, young and old, who appreciate the work that techs like you do in keeping these wonderful instruments alive!  I'm new to the K5m myself, but a I have a friend who lives in Idaho who is a vintage synth tech like yourself, who might be able to point you to some resources.  His name is Douglas Huesby, and he operates a business/online synth museum called Synth Ark, where he is collecting a lot of technical data and sample libraries of older synths.  That's who connected me up with my K5m.  Although he personally hasn't worked with the K5 as much as other units, he's got good experience with the K4 and K5000, and he's got some great connections with people who worked on the K5 when it was being manufactured.  Here's a link to his Facebook page.  I'm sure he would love to hear from another engineer.
> https://www.facebook.com/douglas.huseby
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>> On Oct 8, 2013, at 12:20 PM, <lea56@...> wrote:
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>> Hi all!
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>> I am Lars. 57 year old. I am a swede, and I have worked as a service engineer for about 35 years.  I worked also on the Operahouse in Stockholm, as a lightengineer, as the distributor service tech for TEAC/Tascam for 4-5years, as my own for 8 years, as distributor service tech at Intersonic (Otari, Lexicon, Crown, etcetera), and as music store service tech between 1998 - 2012.  
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>> My speciality is old synthesizers, and microprocessor based old syntheizers. SCI, EMU,  Ensoniq, Yamaha Pro I had as contract during my own business,
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>> Now, I found an old bugger...   a K5m, and I really got into it, as it a bit defective.
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>> So I found this group while I searched for service schematics, and decided to join.
>> Now I can see it is a little bit slow action in here...  :)   But I guess youall still get your emails from the group.  I am really empty on knowledge about the K5's as I perhaps fixed som of them, but minor problems for customers.
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>> So thats why I am here...    My retirement means TIME. And it is so nice to just dig into stuff you never had time for.  A bit surrealistic.  I was suppose to be the electronic musician, but I ended up keeping the planets stock of vintage alive!  :D
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