It's interesting out of all the synthesizers that I have ever owned, the one that still remains is my ARP OMNI model number 2483. And for some reason I still can not seem to part with it. Tried to sell it a couple of time but never actually did it. And for the life of me I still can figure out why I still have it? I think the reason why is becuse I have ad it for such a long time it's almost become part of me.

I bought this thing from a Pawn shop for $150.00. Why I bought it you may ask? Well a short time back I had read Mark Vail's artcile on Vintage Synthesizers in the July 1993 issue of Keyboard magazine. Anyway I walked in to the shop and saw this synth sitting on a shelf. For several weeks I kept going back to see if it was still ther and it was. It was like the synth was calling me (insert laugh here). Also it was because it was the frist vintage synth I had ever come accross. Especially in Fredercik Maryland. Which is not know for selling synthesizers. So After talking it over with my parents (still living at home with them at the time), they said I should buy it. So I did just that. The shop had told me that it did work. Of course that turned out to be a lie. But I was not about too take it back and tell them that. So I opened it up and found a pile of dust had accumilated one the inside. So I clean it up and removed all the dust. Plugged it in and turned it on still nothing. So I went looking through that same issue of Keyboard and found a place in Maryland that would repair it. Got it workig again and it sounded rather good. Not what I expected but I could not complain. A short time after that two keys died due to a cuople of contact wires under the keybaord had snapped off. Still have to get those fixed.

So here it is five years later still in wrking condidtion with the dead keys sitting on the floor of my office and still working, thogh I don't use it that much. Having two dead keys is a hinderence.

I guess after having rescued it from a fate worse then death (it's been dead once already) and getting working and holding onto it for five years it's become a part of me. Trying to get rid of it would be like giving up a child or a pet (it's not a good analogy but you get the idea). That and a slaesman told me to hold onto it. But then again I don't think it wants to be let go either. Call me crazy!


BTW: Just out of idle curiousity does anyone out there have a synth that you just can't seem to bring yourslef to part with?