I have my T8 for sale on eBay, if anyone here is looking for one. It was just serviced at Wine Country Sequential.
Rare Sequential Circuits Prophet T8 Analog 8-voice Synthesizer Poly-aftertouch | eBay
This beautiful Prophet T8 has just been serviced by David Sesnak at Wine Country Sequential and is fully functional, running the latest OS version 3.8. It has been in my smoke-free studio for many years. Will ship in the same well-padded box that Wine Country sent it in. Comes with original manual and dual foot pedal. Cosmetically in good condition - the wood is in good shape save for one noticeable scratch on the right wood cheek, and some scratches on the metal top cover (see photos).
Sequential Circuits introduced the T8 in 1983 as its flagship synth. It was Sequential's answer to the CS-80, and is well-known for its excellent hammer-action keyboard that offers polyphonic aftertouch, attack and release velocity. It was so well-designed that the same keyboard was incorporated into the Synclavier II, one of the most high-end synthesizers ever made. The T8 was used by many artists such as Howard Jones, Joe Zawinul, Jerry Goldsmith, Suzanne Ciani, The Fixx, Talking Heads, Huey Lewis and the News, Billy Currie/Ultravox, Ralph Grierson and many others.
One little-known fact about the T8 is that starting with OS v3.5, it can be switched to act as an MPE / Channel-Per-Note controller (MIDI Mode 4), which basically means you can control MPE-compatible synths with per-note aftertouch. It is like polyphonic aftertouch (but only for MPE / channel-per-note compatible synths or multitimbral synths that can receive aftertouch on 8 separate channels)