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...
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
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
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
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? a modular for 40 
