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A few days ago a good friend gave me his Roland JX-3P for inspection/repair, as well as his KORG Poly-800 with inverted keyboard. He said that he bought it years ago, but it never worked. I said it will work once it's been under my hands. And just as I suspected, the synth is fully intact. Most of t...

You can see some of my instruments if you visit my Instagram account.

Oh, that's really a bad design!

Well, the full list right now is this one: Kawai K4 KORG 800DV KORG DS-8 KORG DW-8000 KORG M1 EX KORG Mono/Poly KORG monotron KORG monotron Delay KORG monotron Duo KORG MS-20 KORG MS-50 KORG Nu:Tekt NTS-1 KORG Poly-61 KORG Poly-800 (inverted keys) KORG Trident KORG X-911 KORG Z1 Roland Alpha Juno-2 ...

In this case I'm sure that I will sell it on. It is way too limited for my taste, but let's see how I'll think about it when it is fixed.

My synthesizer collection is indeed pretty large now, but I only keep those instruments that I really like. Most of them have sounds that the others cannot create.

Another one. This might be the most boring* synthesizer out of the Roland SH series, but it is mine! 8-) My brother picked it up for me. It was declared as defective, but overall the insturment works great. It is completely out of tune, the faders and keys have contact issues, but all of that will b...

Okay, then it's very strange, because the board does indeed look very, very clean.

Well?

Or it confirms my suspicion that he does also not like the smell of early '80s BOSS Pedals, just like the problem I have with MIJ BF-2 pedals.

Welcome to the forum! Does it only have that smell when you power it, or all the time? It's all the time Well, maybe you just don't like the smell of old early '80s BOSS pedals! I have such a problem with the Japanese BF-2. It has such a strange metallic smell that reminds me of welding. I have had...