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Fixing My Yamaha Electone Me-50: An FM Synthesizer Home Organ from 1986
The home organ is, at least in my home of North America, a dead market, mostly because synthesizers can do pretty much anything the old beasts could. Neverth...
The interior may be intimidating, but this was also clearly hardware designed to last and to be repaired; all the interboard wires are connected with detachable connectors, and the key mechanism is held together with screws. I wanted to remove as few wires as possible this time; I still play this organ as my daily practice instrument, and will need to order a part, so I know this is going back together before the final repair. Digital synths could be made highly compact, and so would also wipe out the need for a living-room sized multi-keyboard behemoth to get a wide variety of instruments and rhythm machine capabilities.
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