Dec 25

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12/25/2008 8:51 PM 

It's Christmas and for the first time in my life I'm spending parts of it all alone. My wife and my two kids went to my parents over the Holidays so here I am facing an empty house and missing my family more than ever. The reason why I'm spending Christmas alone this year is that I probably have the flu or something like that ... To protect my family from being infected I simply took the decision to spend Christmas alone.

Being alone at Christmas wasn't all that bad to start with but after talking to my five-year old son today I realize how much I miss my family. Trying to kill time I rediscovered my old vinyl record collection with artists and groups like Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Ekseption, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and many  more. The rest of the Christmas day will definitely be spent in the studio playing old Ekseption records on my turn table!

My interest in Ekspetion and Rick van der Linden was increased about two years ago when I first was asked to repair the Yamaha GX-1 owned by Benny Andersson (ABBA). During the work with his GX-1 I developed a huge interest in the GX-1 and started to collect spare parts and historical information about the instrument. I'm currently repairing another GX-1 owned by a musician in Japan, who has been very kind to supply me with information about the instrument which I didn't know. Apart from spare parts and technical information I'm very interested in information what happened to all the GX-1's that was manufactured. I'm trying to build an unofficial database with serial numbers and owners (both original owners and current owners).

Anyone with information about what happed to the Yamaha GX-1 owned by Rick van der Linden, please drop me an email!

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