I bought a very cheap Roland E-50 a few weeks ago. It had a broken DC connector and another vague issue. As it was almost free and E-50’s are pretty cool I bought it.
Continue readingJD-800 flex circuit replacement!
As most owners of Roland JD-800’s know: sooner of later the keys will stop functioning correctly. If it’s not the infamous red glue issue it’s the flexible circuit board that will break. The red glue can be an easy fix (especially if you fix it before it becomes a problem) but the flexible circuit board that runs underneath the keys is a bigger problem.
Continue readingRoland XP-10 Display replacement
(and fix stuck keys)
Last week I bought a Roland XP-10 which was in desperate need of some tlc. In the photo’s it was visible that about 10 keys where stuck down. I thought these might be physically broken but according to the seller some keys just don’t come back up when you press them sometimes. Apart from that the seller said the keyboard (and display) work fine. I asked because I know the displays on these have issues.
Continue readingRoland D-70 display replacement
(and a fix for the ‘No RAM Card <Exit>‘ message!)
Right. A project which is looooooooong overdue 🙂 replacing the display of my Roland D-70.
Continue readingRoland U-20 keybed in a Roland JD-800
I bought another JD-800 about a year ago. First owner, didn’t use it a lot and it came with ALL THE CARDS (yes, including the String Ensemble cards). And it looked absolutely MINT.
Roland G-1000 with a Gotek
I had a Roland G-800 for a long time years ago. They are really cool keyboards. So when I came across this G-1000 which was very cheap I bought it.
Roland GW-7 display repair
About a month ago I bought a Roland GW-7. A few keys not working but more worrying: the display isn’t working properly.
Yamaha YS200
A few weeks ago I bought a Roland G-1000 and this YS200 came with it as a package deal. Weird little synthesizer but I read good things about it. It’s insanely dirty and it looks like 2 keys are broken so lets dig in 🙂
Roland E-86 Intelligent Synthesizer
The E-86 was on my wanted list for a while. I’ve owned most of the (interesting) E-series by now so when I saw an add for a ‘well used’ E-86 I picked it up.
Casio toy keyboards
A while ago (gee, al lot of my post begin with these words 🙂 ) I bought 4 old Casio toy keyboards. My very first keyboard was a Casio SA-1 (which I still have) and some models are still popular today.
Synths and Keyboards 