Vintage Synth Repair

--- In vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com, "Roy J. Tellason"
<rtellason@...> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 10 October 2006 04:43 pm, Max Zape wrote:
> > Back in the 80's, Korg was acquired by Yamaha.
> 
> Oh?  Back in the 80s we were a service center for both Korg _and_
Yamaha,  and 
> they were two completely independent operations as far as I know, 
with no 
> connection between them.
> 
> Do you know something to indicate otherwise?
> 
Though the two lines are separate entities, they both shared the same
R&D department for a time, hence, Korg created some synths w/ breath
controller features as well as other synths that look familiar.  BTW,
during that same period, Yamaha also acquired Sequential Circuits,
maker of the Prophet synth and others.....