They don't come up for sale very often, so if you didn't get what you wanted for Christmas and need a bit of cheering up, how about spending £1,000+ on a fully working Yamaha CS80? It's perfect for recreating the soundtrack to Blade Runner, and it weighs more than me. Of course, your synth snob friends will complain that it's merely a cut-down version of the Yamaha GX-1 - the vast and endlessly expensive organ-style synth that Keith Emmerson and Stevie Wonder bought. But considering the CS80 cost £5,000 in 1977, it's really a bargain. Sure, you could buy Arturia's CS80v virtual version, but in this case, it really isn't the same.
Posted by Tom Whitwell. 
