Fairlight-CMI

Hi, I've been a fan of the Fairlight since the early 80's. Seeing 
guys like Martin Rushent sampling his voice then playing it on the 
keyboard as different notes, it blew me away! But its own sounds as 
well are lovely, especially the orch and aahh sounds as used by Jan 
Hammer, Jean Michel Jarre, Thomas Dolby etc. And Kate Bush's Hounds 
of Love just rewrites the rule book! 

I'm a non-owner, in fact I'm a non-musician, I just love the sound of 
this machine and love finding out as much about them as possible. I 
have touched 2 though, one at Keele University and one at the Synth 
museum in Bristol, but the Keele one blew a fuse and the Bristol one 
wouldn't load any disks! One day I will see a working one!

So I would just like to ask if it's ok to frequent this group and 
read and post as appropriate? One thing I may ask too often is 'you 
know that bit in the song ****? Is that Fairlight?'!! Is it ok to ask 
that sort of thing, or would you rather talk about the technical side 
of things?

Thanks for reading this, post soon!!

Andy (UK)