Monday, May 25, 2009

yard sales are fun


Found a Yamaha keyboard from the 80's at a yard sale today for $1. Sure it was dirty as heck but I brought it home and cleaned it up. Found out it wouldn't play though, no sound from either speaker or headphone jack. :( But I managed to diagnose the problem as the volume control slider not working correctly. Once I found the right traces I was able to bypass it and hear the demo song, albeit at full volume. Just need to dig out my soldering iron to make my jumper permanent and I can actually play with it then. Sometime I'll have to dig a volume control or some other potentiometer from something to replace the volume control on this.

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