I serviced my old Roland D-50 today after noticing problems with the aftertouch of two keys. It seems the key contacts need yearly mending to work–I took the whole thing apart about a year ago, cleaning all 61 keys and their contacts.

Here’s a useful web page for those of you who have a D-50 in need of servicing.

Got my hands on this venerable synth. Seems I’ll have to do repairs but oh, I’m so looking forward to this.