Yamaha Madness

[zacharias]

Here is my story. Back in 2006 I acquired a Yamaha YC-20 of Ebay. The item was sold with a description of in working order. Got the organ after many screw ups with the delivery service. Opened it up and found out that it powered on but no sound. The volume pedal was also hacked off. Not wanting to deal the with shipping service again I went on a quest to find a tech. I found a guy locally that had many YC's and he worked on them so I let him repair it. I finally got the YC-20 back today after 3.5 years of him working on it. He made a new volume pedal and had to take the power supply from one of his organs just to get mine to work. After he got it powered and working he tuned it and replaced the capacitors and now it plays and sounds amazing!



The wood on one side got banged up from shipping but I'm happy with it.

During the 3 year wait I acquired a Yamaha YC-25d. I was fed up with not having a organ while playing in a Reggae band so I posted a WANTED ad in Craig'slist for a portable organ. A day later I got an email about getting rid of the 25d. I managed to talk him into trading two cheap basses and $300 for it. He sold it to me saying the volume pedal didn't work but to my luck it works perfect he just couldn't get the latch open to test it(a screw driver does a lot) Came with the original legs and vinyl bag! Plays amazing and was barely used before me.

I got a Yamaha AN200 and a custom reversed key midi controller(soon to have a red finishing) on top.

[Rod MPS]

Nice find on the 25D.

[crispycircuit]

Congrats! Thx for the pics. I never saw one before, so now I know what to look for.... 3 1/2 yrs for a repair? And I thought I was slow repairing. How cool your back in business!

[zacharias]

Yea three years is wild, but at least i got it back. I move to Washington state in Aug so the yc-20 will go with me while my 25d stays in Vegas at my parents'.

[bebop]

I too got a great deal on a YC-25D and I love it. At the time, I was actually more in the market for a dual-manual Vox or Farfisa. However, the price was right and the condition was pristine, with all original accessories. The person before me really baby'ed this thing. It's awfully heavy though. Not something I would want to do nightly gigs with, that's for sure!

What is the finish on yours? Mine's the faux wood finish (same as the one on the YC-45D).

Take care!

[Rod MPS]

Zach,
Let me know if you ever want to sell that 25 OK? I drive through Vegas a few times a year.

[jonobridge]

Hi ive got a yamaha yc10 ,i bought it off an organ repairman ,only thing missing were the legs,so i found some table legs and welded some nuts on the end,the organ works great,even got a farfisa matador model R