SS-30M

Bench Press With the help of the borrowed bench power-supply I manged to narrow down the -26V rail issue to board G3. Without that board...

A very frustrating and worrying night last night. I re-stacked all the G boards and fixed the broken -26V wire. But as soon as I powered u...

Sometimes the obvious answer is staring you in the face. I found that I had cut the ground wire to the G boards at some point. Why? I forg...

Annual Apology 13 years it's been since I started this blog. Many things have changed since then but my desire to have a Yamaha S...

This was a month ago, but I just spotted that Dave Formula sold his SS-30. He seems to have been selling off all his old keyboards (and a mo...

Josh, call the Bucket Brigade I was re-reading the superlative Synth Secrets articles by Gordon Reid again to see what he had to say abo...

An apology This post was drafted some months ago. Since it was all too difficult and now that Schaeffer are offering printing to their fro...

I was browsing around the web looking at Yamaha organs (uh-oh!) today and came across this image which tickled me. It's from an fact...

A bit on the slide? As I've been too busy to get into the garage again these past few days (and will be until next week) I was instea...

Cello, again! Back one day later with more updates! I fixed the issue with the Cello. Well, almost. The issue with broken wire to the vo...

Progress  Temporary front-panel rewiring Progress has many enemies: perfection; comfort; greed; fear; indecision; indifference and ...