Wiardgroup

I get the feeling one might say the same about Robin
Wood with EMS.
This activity certainly seemed easier when there was
apparently no more than 20 interested people.
The extra irony is that there's seemingly not enough
interest to support much more than what's out there,
keeping the prices high and the profits low.
Don H
--- Gary Chang <gchang@calarts.edu> wrote:

> "Frank Hettlich" <Frank.Hettlich@...> wrote:
> >
> > Would it make sense to ask all the guys on this
> list (maybe with a
> poll) IF
> > they actually want to buy re-manufacturable Wiard
> 300 modules in the
> near
> > future and possibly put a deposit instead of
> individually asking Grant?
> 
> Frank,
> 
> I realize that I am speaking on Grant's behalf, so I
> await his
> correction of my statements. I am just putting this
> out there as
> perspective....
> 
> When I had first met Grant over the phone, it was
> just after a Robert
> Rich review of the Wiard 300 appeared in Keyboard
> Magazine.  By the
> time that I decided to order, there, he was besieged
> with well over a
> year of orders.  What resulted was a very gloomy and
> sullen Grant -
> imprisoned by our "love".  There were no options -
> just go downstairs
> and build modules.  I truly believe that repearing
> this situation is
> something that GR will avoid at all costs.
> 
> I think that that is why Grant has continued to
> build 300 Series
> modules as individual custom orders - he wants
> freedom and flexibility
> in his life to do things that are important to him
> as well as crete
> and manufacture synthesizer modules.  That
> essentially means spreading
> out his 300 Series stuff over time - and turning
> down offers from time
> to time so that he can be normal....
> 
> I personally have discussed several things with
> Grant, but these
> projects are on hold until "brighter days" appear,
> when he has more
> time, or I have more money to make my projects more
> attractive.  So, I
> am specking out of experience - a happy Grant is a
> creative Grant. 
> Obligating him to the point where he can't ride his
> Vespa around town
> for kicks ultimately does no one any good.
> 
> Respectfully,
> 
> gary
> 
> 
> 
> 


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