“A little while ago a friend asked me to help him clean out a storage unit that he had bought at auction. The deal was that he would keep all the tools and power equipment . I could have anything else I wanted. Most of what was left went to the dump but there were a few things I thought might have value. One of those things is this really nice Roland JUNO 60 Programmable Polyphonic Synthesizer. I know almost nothing about this instrument except that physically it appears to be in excellent condition. The only problem is that I can’t get it to work. I don’t know if it is because of my own lack of knowledge of this instrument or if there is something wrong with the device. Either way I feel that I must offer it as a synthesizer in need of repair or one that could be used for parts.
I did try but I didn’t have much luck. I plugged it in, switched it on and all the lights came on. It took me a little while to realize that a synthesizer isn’t like keyboards I’ve had in the past. It doesn’t have built in speakers. I tried hooking it up to some amplifiers I had laying around but I don’t know if they work either. Another problem I have is that I don’t know if I’m using the switches, dials and levers properly. Is there a certain combination that needs to be used? I don’t know. Eventually I found a set of head phones that I knew worked and after numerous attempts I was able to get it to produce some sound. I am not saying that I think it works only that it’s not completely dead. I believe that it can be brought back to life but I don’t know. I did open it up to look inside hoping to find a loose wire or plug. Something that had come undone that I could fix. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen. However, I did take notice of how clean it is in there and I also noticed that the one fuse I saw was still good.”
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