Yamaha CS80

Greetings to both Erik and Antoine and welcome aboard. I only came into 
this CS80 group myself a few months back and it's fun to be able to 
connect with other CS-80 owners and enthusiasts from all over. I've had 
my CS-80 since about 1979, I remember carrying it home from the music 
shop all excited with the CS-80 crammed into the back seat of my VW 
Beetle! (I'm still not sure how I managed that, but I did.). Anyway 
after years of heavy usage, followed by years of heavy neglect I finally 
had my machine fully restored last summer when my old band had an 
opportunity to do a one-time reunion gig and I couldn't go on without my 
main instrument. So now I have been re-discovering how much fun this is 
all over again.

Antoine, I really liked your site and it's about time someone had the 
initiative to put that together. It was fun playing through all your 
collection of preset sample sounds. Nicely done. I have to agree with 
you that there is something about the physical connection through the 
keyboard that isn't like any other. I haven't tried or experienced the 
CS80V yet, and maybe never will. I can see it being useful for home 
recording and MIDI projects, but for playing live with other musicians, 
you gotta have the real thing, in my book.

Anyway, glad to have two new members to share stories with.

-Tim S.
<Minneapolis>
CS-80 S/N #1512