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Re: OT - Polymoog

2009-01-09 by galaxiesmerge

Here are some Polymoog legs:

http://cgi.ebay.com/moog-polymoog-legs_W0QQitemZ170042253701QQcmdZViewItemQQptZKeyboards_MIDI?_trksid=p3286.m20.l1116

Cheers
--- In yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com, rj krohn <r_j_d_2.phila@...> wrote:
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> congrats, david. you are much more the tech than i am, but i did
some restoration work
> on a polymoog 203 this year, so i may(or may not) be able to offer
any help.. feel free to
> shoot questions out here in the off-chance we know anything at
all......good luck-rj
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> --- On Wed, 1/7/09, David Rogoff <david@...> wrote:
> From: David Rogoff <david@...>
> Subject: [yamahacs80] OT - Polymoog
> To: yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, January 7, 2009, 2:26 PM
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> As some you know, I'm taking a short CS80 break and picked up a
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> Polymoog (the older 203a, which is the synth version but labelled
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> Keyboard) a week ago. It's in very good cosmetic condition and mostly
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> working. I should have it at 99% in about a week.  I used to own one
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> about 20 years ago, back when I had my first CS80 (and I owned a
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> You can follow my repairs and see the guts here: 
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> I had some questions for the group. First, I've found a couple of
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> service manuals online (all 300 pages of it!), but I can't find an
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> owner's manual. Anyone have one I can copy/scan?  The Poly has a
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> really weird architecture, which is very flexible, but not very
intuitive.
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> Next, I'm building new legs for it, but can someone tell me how long
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> Finally, the Polymoog has CV/swtich-gate outputs to drive a Moog mono
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> synth. You can choose to drive it from the upper half, lower-half, or
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> whole keyboard for cool splits with the built-in sounds. When I had
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> one years ago I used it drive control a Micromoog that happened to
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> have a broken keyboard.  Anyway, I'd like to test this, so I was
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> wondering if there was some local (L.A./O.C.) person with a
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> Minimoog/Micromoog/ other switch-gate mono that would be willing to
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> bring it by to try them out together.
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