Broken Keys

Jaysmithgroup · Post by **Jaysmithgroup** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 12:48 am

Has anybody else had issues with breaking keys?

Since I've had the board (SV1-73), I've broken 4 keys from performing with it (once with 2 keys and now again with 2 different keys). I was told by my tech (who's been doing it for 30+ years) when he looked at the action inside that the keys are made of not very good plastic. He warned me that I'll probably keep having this issue.

Any thoughts?

craigalan · Post by **craigalan** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 2:44 am

Broken how?

Jaysmithgroup · Post by **Jaysmithgroup** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 9:22 pm

Broken from the inside to the point that when you press them once, the key sticks. I've been a loyal Korg user for the last 15 years and I've never had an issue like this with any of their boards.

craigalan · Post by **craigalan** » Wed Jun 22, 2011 2:17 am

Yes. I had a key fall flat and it won't bounce back up. Its at a repair center now. I am hoping its an easy fix.

craigalan · Post by **craigalan** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 3:24 am

Just heard back from the repair center. I had two keys break near the hammers. They need to order new keys and replace them. Kind of a bummer. Been buying keyboards for many many years, and this almost never happens.

Jaysmithgroup · Post by **Jaysmithgroup** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 3:25 am

I've played my whole life and I've never broken keys like this. It's kind of ridiculous.

craigalan · Post by **craigalan** » Sun Jul 03, 2011 11:27 am

Its tough to tell. My repair center guy, who is authorized for Korg, Yamaha, and Fender reported to me that this is a well built instrument and that broken keys should not happen again, unless something gets dropped on the keybed or maybe it gets dropped during transport. Otherwise he felt it was a solid build. We shall see, but damn it is a slick piece of rhodes lushness. Glad to have it back. I am still pro korg sv-1.

RitmoDeShuffle · Post by **RitmoDeShuffle** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 2:17 pm

Ooops - didn't see this post before I submitted mine...

I just "snapped" my middle E...

Where are you, where did you get it fixed and how much did it cost?

Thanks,
James.

craigalan · Post by **craigalan** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 2:33 pm

I am in pennsylvania, USA.

clonedike · Post by **clonedike** » Fri Aug 23, 2013 12:50 pm

Never broken a key before, in 25 years of gigging. They break on the inside and then stick in the down position. They don't break completely -- I can flip the key back up. Getting really tired of it and hoping Korg does something to make it up to us.

clonedike · Post by **clonedike** » Fri Aug 30, 2013 3:39 pm

I'm not too handy but it was going to be $195 each time I broke a key (4 or 5 now -- ridiculous), so I had to learn how to do it myself. Got some fairly good instructions at Just Answer and moved a couple of offending keys to the high end (after some sweating and hollering), but now I have to move a black key, which seems a little different and isn't popping out like the white ones did. So anyway, it's not that hard, but give yourself a solid two hours the first time, so you can take breaks and calm down when you get frustrated. BTW, I didn't disconnect the white ribbon cable that connects the keys to the rest of the machine -- the cable is long enough that I just slid the keybed free and worked on it like that.

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