MOTM

In a message dated 00-06-07 12:17:17 EDT, you write:

<< Correct!  None of us at the meeting got that one. >>


fred,
wow! all that assembled synth knowledge and no one got it .......... gee, 
does that mean i can get a motm cap?  :^)
i remember reading something about moog and his history some time ago and 
that tidbit stuck in my mind because in the "dark ages" ( 1970 - 72ish ) when 
i was first fooling around with e.m., most of my stuff was radio stuff ( i 
had been a ham ) and odd junk that i built or modified not "knowing" that 
some crazy stuff wasn`t supposed to work. i used to use old microphones as 
"filters" - a carbon mike sounds different from a crystal (rochelle salt) 
mike from a dynamic mike and such. so, the bit about his thesis being on 
rochelle salt crystals just "resonated" and stuck with me.
and, thinking about it, hi-tech be damned, i miss some of the sounds i used 
to get from torturing old bits and pieces......... ( try passing a sustained 
sound through a 3 inch tv speaker ( which i used to get by the boxful from 
electronics class in high school at the time ) and setting the cone on fire 
and recording the sounds through a crystal mike while it totally burns up and 
finally vibrates apart  or soldering 4 cheap mikes to a plug to feed the tape 
recorder, volume was controlled by spacing the mike from the sound source, 
and getting weird intermodulation distortions or.. ....but you get the idea. 
sometimes not knowing something was "wrong" was very liberating ! )
best,
dave v.