Vintage Synth Repair

On Sunday 26 August 2007 15:09, GB wrote:
> > ...so, if a piano-tuner can't tune it, I guess i'll be stuck with my
> > own ears and a chromatic tuner I guess :-)
>
> Your ears will serve you well, but the tuner will only get you in the ball
> park. There are so many notes and it's so painfule to do that (I think) it's
> a big enough challenge getting  them tuned to each other -- making it
> absolutely on pitch is very tough.

A strobe tuner helps.  :-)  Wish I had one these days...

> > Off to find my soldering-iron...
>
> It better be a big soldering iron.  The process is more like soldering
> copper pipework than electronics. You need a LOT of heat.

It's not _that_ bad.  I use an Ungar with a 45W element and that's plenty!

> I haven't done one since the early 90's and I can't say I miss it.

Nor do I,  though it's been some time for me as well.  Not only is the process 
of tuning them cumbersome,  but you get to align the thing in the slot each 
time you have a go at it,  making it more time-consuming.

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