[sdiy] Famous Gene?

[Tim Stinchcombe]

> Excerpt from an interview with ELP keyboard tech Will 
> Alexander From http://www.keithemerson.com/techtalk.html
> 
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> (TD)So the Moog was retired for ten years. What brought it 
> out of retirement?
> 
> Keith feels it's an icon in the keyboard world. Even today it 
> has a sense of mystery. People come up and look at it and 
> they don't care about the technology. They could care less 
> about samplers and synths, but they look at that Moog and 
> say, "Wow!" When I got the Moog it was in pretty bad shape. 
> It hadn't been used. There was lots of corrosion on all the 
> contacts and modules didn't work. I have a friend named 
> ***Gene Stopp*** who is also a Moog enthusiast, so we brought 
> it into my living room for eight months.
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> 
> Gene? Gene Stopp who writes to us mere mortals on Synth DIY? 
> I'm impressed! What a great story to be able to tell at SDIY 
> meetings. :)

This prompted me to have a look in Mark Vail's 'Vintage Synthesizers' book,
and indeed there is much in there on Gene's contribution on how they
breathed life back into the monster Moog, after it had spent an extended
spell in a case outdoors.

Tim

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Tim Stinchcombe 

Cheltenham, Glos, UK
email: tim102 at tstinchcombe.freeserve.co.uk