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"Kirk Degiorgio" <opart@...> wrote:


(and no Celtic squiggles to be seen..... ;-))

KD


And

"C. Whitten" <chris@...>

Upside: no weird artwork.



Now you guys are spreading trash about Wiard to
another list. Shame on you.

I don't know Chris Whitten from anywhere so I can't
comment on him, except for him being perhaps a Brit
with a not so light hearted dig against a certain
American businessmen for which I do take offense.

However, I do know something about Kirk Digorgio.
Kirk has his own studio and record label and could be
called an independent businessman. I actually like
his music quite a bit, and have shelled out outrageous
prices ($26.00 + each for 2 As One CD's) to buy his
music. However now I feel that I am stuck in a
position of possibly not buying anything that he
produces anymore, since he chooses to keep slandering
my friend Grant's line of synthesizers. Grant too is
an independent businessman and I would have to say
that his profit margin isn't that huge. What Grant
does is a labor of love as I imagine is the same for
Kirk. I would contend that Grant is the most original
synth designer of the last 10 years (at least) with
modules like the Wogglebug, the Borg Filter and
Miniwave which pick up on abandoned ideas of former
modules and move them into a higher stage of
development. So Kirk, why disparage Grant on 2 lists
just because his panels artwork remind you too much of
some local flavour where you live which you find
objectional? I don't get it. I have read you wax
eloquant about the sound and feel of the Rhodes Piano
and the reasons you love Jazz, but your dismissal of
the Wiard seems superficial and shallow at best. I
thought Music was about the sound, not about whether
it's color matches your furniture or whether Celtic
heritage fit into the same world as you. From reading
your writing and listening to your music I thought you
were beyond this kind of petty behaviour and were a
person that I could look up to as an example of
success without compromise. Well I don't know now...

The world of independent analog synthesizer makers is
very small. I see no point in disparaging one design
for something as small as the front panel graphics.
Sound is everything, looks are nothing.

None of my synths match.

Nick Wilson



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> The world of independent analog synthesizer makers is
> very small. I see no point in disparaging one design
> for something as small as the front panel graphics.

This needed to be said. Thanks Nick.

Regardless of the paint job on the front panel, Grant is actively doing some
of the most innovative modular design out there right now.


Les Mizzell

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>except for him being perhaps a Brit
> with a not so light hearted dig against a certain
> American businessmen for which I do take offense.

You are wrong.
Please speak to Eric Barbour, not me.

>
> Now you guys are spreading trash about Wiard to
> another list. Shame on you.

OK, speaking for myself I think it is fair to say that a couple of comments
shouldn't have ended up on the Serge list. I apologise.
"Spreading trash". I don't think so.

> Kirk has his own studio and record label and could be
> called an independent businessman. I actually like
> his music quite a bit, and have shelled out outrageous
> prices ($26.00 + each for 2 As One CD's) to buy his
> music.

Now you are trying to have a serious dig at Kirk for something he obviously
has NO control over. Why bring this into the group anyway?

>However now I feel that I am stuck in a
> position of possibly not buying anything that he
> produces anymore, since he chooses to keep slandering
> my friend Grant's line of synthesizers.

Really and truly....grow up!!!
Can you have an adult debate?
This is a serious point:
If you can't have a discussion about the good and bad points of an
instrument like the Serge or Wiard on a group like this then we are living
in a very oppressed World indeed.