Thanks for the reply Tobias! I ordered a new speaker & some tools after posting & already got emailed that the order’s in process. shipped, even!? :)

also, The ONLY other hardware issue I’ve had, I fixed FINALLY, just the other day, thanks to this site & YOUR details+pics. (I’m hoping it’s a silly lil fix, with the speaker, too, & nothing involving other parts/wiring)

A “piano” key popped off, 2nd or 3rd leftmost one, & it’s finally back on, securely. Trick was to pop off the middle white, what’d you call it?, scissor mechanism, which was still attached to the KEY, not the board. once I snapped it on to the board, 1st, I was able to snap the key in place!! YAY I had a feeling nothing was broken, but that stuff is so delicate that wo researching for, literally months (&years) (&still constantly am,) I would not have dared that simple task. ..Guess my point is THANK YOU! I’m handy but careful.

FINGERS CROSSED that no soldering is required. SO temped to take it apart now!… let you know how it goes :) cheers! marz*

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In Absolute typical style of me, I wrote way too many characters before so cut the second half in tending to paste it in this second post but I guess it isn’t happening… All that pastes are the words function test

ha oh well.

I probably got the main points and questions out that I needed to make… Any other links or tips or advice appreciated… I’ve had my hope yvonne for over six years it was bought off eBay from the original owner and I have taken very good care of it… Again I wish I could just test to see if there’s a loose connection on the internal speaker… It passes all of the other tests of the keys in the knobs in on is in the offs and stuff…

can’t believe that there is no speaker test… At least it totally works fine plugged into another speaker I’ve been using a jam box… that reminds me of another question since that jam box is Bluetooth capable have people had any good results Using some sort of Bluetooth dongle that ben can connect the OP one to a speaker wirelessly? OK thanks bye

is there a way to function test the speaker?

Everything else works perfectly fine including the in and out lines, internal microphone power button and accessory is on my key is everything… But certainly no sound comes out of the internal speaker and I’m super excited to see that it’s only about $30 to buy a replacement one but I’d much prefer to not have to disassemble my precious if not necessary… Also I’m considering opening it up and just checking to see if the wires connecting to the speaker are messed up or something… Maybe I can push it back in as it got wiggled her around or something I don’t know… Is it possible to fully blow out the speaker from crashing the iOS when using the GeForce accelerometer and shaking the eff outta it while in etchasketch mode and having a very short loop from the tape playing while keys and knobs were being twiddled with??…

… tbc…