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Re: [yamahacs80] Re: any other MIDI retrofit kit ?

2012-12-02 by David Rogoff

Eddie Jobson said he had the first CS80 sold outside of Japan.  I think Bill Sautter still has it and could tell us what its serial number is.

 David


On Dec 2, 2012, at 3:28 PM, blchrr@... wrote:

> My first Cs80 was serial number 900 something. 
> 
>> AFAIK from my times being Yamaha Product Specialist, older Yamaha  
>> products for public market start serial numbering from 1000 up. If  
>> there are some machines with numbers under 1000, they are prototypes  
>> or testing pieces. 
>> 
>> Maybe that's the reason for a mistake. 
>> 
>> Newer products use different coding system, not just simple numbering. 
>> 
>> Daniel Forro 
>> 
>> On 3 Dec, 2012, at 4:40 AM, David Rogoff wrote: 
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Dec 2, 2012, at 11:32 AM, scistudio440 <zevault@...> wrote: 
>>> 
>>>> Thanks.
>>>> 1000 made you say ? So synthmuseum is wrong claiming they were 2000  
>>>> units then ? 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I'm pretty sure.  I've never seen/heard of a serial number under  
>>> 1000 or over 2000.
>> 
> 
>

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