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--- In wiardgroup@yahoogroups.com, "konkuro" <konkuro@a...> wrote:
> ... why should a modular be portable? 

You're joking, right?

Some of us carry them to gigs, you know (this is nothing new, I seem 
to recall that certain of the original series of Moog modulars 
contained the designation "p" as part of the system name).  (On the 
actual subject, I'll add that Wiard 300 and MOTM -format modulars 
are no less portable than Fracrack-based ones, so I doubt that 
portability has anything to do with the choice of Frackrack versus 
other formats.  The MOTM format benefits from its shallower depth, 
so it might be considered *more* portable than Frackracks.)

(John, I find it amusing that you complain about Chris selectively 
quoting you after you turned my statement that:
"99% of the repertoire of symphony orchestras was written 150+ years 
ago" (6/24 4:58PM) [an exaggeration, I admit - I'm sure that 
Stravinsky, Bernstein, Dvorak, Ravel, maybe Saint-Sans, Bartok & a 
few others {pardon my spelling} make up to 5%-10% of that repertoire]
into:
"no orchestral music being written within the last 150 years" (6/25 
12:17AM); most of the orchestral music being written these days does 
NOT make it into the repertoire of symphony orchestras and is only 
heard by the composer's faculty advisor[s] - a distinction as 
significant as that between "all the songs played on top-40 radio 
this year" vs. "all the songs written this year".  But I was totally 
wrong about the banjo being less than 150 years old; it dates back 
to at least the early 1800s.)

    -Doug
     jasret@mindspring.com