DESCRIPTION: Synthesiser Dave’s shed is sort of like one of those homes for distressed hedgehogs. People find a poorly hedgehog under a bush, or on the hard shoulder of a motorway, take it home and put in a cardboard box with a blanket and some cat food, and then they call Mrs Tiggywinkles, hoping they’ll come and take the flea-ridden spiny wormeater off their hands. That, in some ways, is what happened with this Siel DK 80. Its owner phoned Synthesiser Dave and asked him to come and collect it for mending and, on discovering it might cost about £25 to bring it back to life, offered to sell it to Dave for a tenner.
The Italian synth manufacturer Siel (Societa Industrie Elettroniche) made this peculiar synth in 1985, not long before they gave up the ghost, and it was a sort of a response to the Korg Poly 800, which Dave didn’t like at all. But Dave rather likes this.
