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

2012-12-04 by Stephen Parsick

According to Kent Spong, there were 786 units made (the first being 1001, the final one 1786).

Vangelis has, I think, nine of them.

Stephen

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Tue, 04 Dec 2012 19:14:54 +0000
> Von: blchrr@...
> An: yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com
> Betreff: [yamahacs80] Re: any other MIDI retrofit kit ?

> My mistake, my first Cs80 was serial number 1014, bought from Peter
> Forrest 
> at the turn of the century of thereabouts.
> My current CS80 which ive had since about 2003 has a serial number around 
> 1200 i think.
> I always thought there were about 2000 made, but perhaps only 800-1000
> after 
> all. I wonder how many are still working and how many got broken up for 
> parts or scrapped? Maybe 500ish still survive?
> I bet Vangelis still has a few hahaa ;)
> Ill never part with mine 
> 
> 
> > 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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