Gloat of the day...

[Gordonjcp]

Maybe we can make this a sticky?

What bargains - serious seller-didn't-see-it-coming bargains - have you had?

Today mine is this - I've just picked up a Casio CZ-230S for a fiver.  I need to sort the power socket out a bit, but it's all there and working, and damn cheesy too...

[computer at sea]

Casio Sk-1 listed on ebay as "Casio Keyboard" for ten bucks after shipping.

Also, Casio SK-1 for 2 bucks at a yard sale.

[Circuitbenders]

where shall i start, hmmmm

Akai S900 with trigger input board - £5
Korg SDD2000 delay - £5
Roland MS1 sampler- £8
Cheetah SX16 - Free
Paia modular system - £40

The one i'm most smug about is a Spectral Audio Syntrack analogue rack synth for £11. Go to the spectral audio site and theres a page about a common problem with the power diodes and how to fix it. The guy selling it plainly hadn't been there. 

Oh, and a Kawai 100F analogue synth for £30 that had spent its entire life making wind noises for an amateur dramatics company. You wouldn't get one for under £300 in the real world, its the ultimate Dr Who / Radiophonic workshop machine 

[nochtanseenspecht]

hehe circuitbenders rule again

at least i had a cz101 for 40 euro,
morley wah- 15
marantz 19'' cd recorder 15
alesis sr16 10
hr16 15
roland s330 20
behringer mx8000 50
to mention a few...

and last week a sk1 for 5 along with an analog (bbd) delay for 7,50

but a kawai 100f for 30 ? a modular for 40 ? 

[kick52]

I got that Acorn A3000 for £1.
GX4000 (even though it killed itself) for £5.
The VTech laptop thing for £2..

not too many great bargains :/

[Circuitbenders]

but a kawai 100f for 30 ? a modular for 40 ? 

That Paia modular had spent its entire life sitting in someones cupboard because the VCO board was produced as Paia were moving from one design to another so it never worked as there was one circuitboard trace missing. Huge respect to Scott at Paia for spending days sending emails back and forth with me about that one 

As for the 100F, i recommend asking around at school music departments and theatres to see what they might have lying around in cupboards that nobody has opened for years. Over at Bournemouth University animation department they used to have 2 EMS VCS3's in a cupboard. Nobody had even turned them on for about 10 years but nobody seemed to have the authority to sell them to me