My father, "Stooge" Larry Hendry
2005-10-12 by hendryjl
I just joined into your group here. I appreciate Dave (Moe) for notifying you all about Dad and Anne's passing. I wasn't sure how to pass it along to you all, but I knew it was critical that I did. Dave has already started helping me to ensure my Dad's website (wiseguysynth.com) will stay up. I would like to make it begin with a small memorial page in his honor, but otherwise I'd like it to remain intact, or to grow and be enhanced as appropriate. I loved watching my Dad build his modules. I bought him the drill press he used to drill your panels for Christmas one year :-). I had a lot of EE classes in college, but I forgot too much of it to follow it as fast as he wanted to show it to me. He would positively glow when he talked about all the things in his rack. He'd tell me be about the people behind the names like Synthesis Technologies, Blacet Research, and Catgirl Synth. You all contributed to him just as he gave back to you. I was just beginning to look at building him some cabinets as I am becoming an avvid hobbiest woodworker these days. He was SO PROUD of the work he did with you and I know he was VERY PROUD to call you all his friends. With Dave's assistance, I hope to be able to ensure that any orders are fulfilled. Also, any parts that wind up leftover, I want to make sure get sold. I am not interested in the money part of it, I just want to ensure that the work he's done gets out there for him to live on in your synth cabinets, and in your hearts. If there are any specific modules that he's designed that are solely owned by him, I'd like to make any of those designs public domain. There is a ton of stuff here to go through related to MOTM. It's mostly notepads of engineering diagrams and such. I know he would want anything he could share with you all to be shared, so I will do my best to accomodate that desire. Eventually, I plan to come back and read each and every kind word and posting I see that you have all left about my father. In reading a few already, I've noticed a common thread that you all have been able to use him for reference, advice, and guidance. As a father, he provided me with those things about all aspects of life. He was a mentor, role model, and guide for me. If you had developed the impression over these bit streams that tie us together that you were dealing with a good man, I am here to let you know that you were more right than you could imagine. I'd like to leave a couple of parting thoughts in this post in regards to some things of related and not so related comments: - Fathers, take time to tell your sons you love them and how proud of them you are. Father-son relationships can be tough when it comes to communication because... well... we're guys. Speaking with people close to my father, I'm find out that he told many people about how proud he was of his sons, even though it wasn't always so clearly apparent to me how much. Go out of your way when you can to communicate your feelings to your children. - You folks... the MOTM elite... you represent a unique family for each other. I know my Dad felt that way. Whatever positive attitudes you felt he contributed, please help keep those pattens alive in the group. - The temptation to built the "ultimate-super-cool-mega-power" set of modules is overwhelming. My dad enjoyed the work so much. Along the way, stop and smell the roses... use your modules, bask in the glory of what you've created and play! It's no fun to build and build if hardly get to use them. Ok, I've poured my heart out a bit too much at this point, so I'll let you guys get back to it. Forgive the rambling and any grammar and spellng errors. I will remain a member of this group for a while so I can read your posts and keep you apprised of how things are going with his MOTM items. Take care, and keep having fun with those synths!!! Jim (James L Hendry Jr)