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I just remembered a funny story about something that happened years ago.
In 1975, I'd been playing my organ in bands for a few years, and in a record shop I found an LP of music played on the Moog synthesizer. I loved the sound, and had to have one. I bought a Moog -it was expensive in those days - around $575.00 - but I bought it and used it in conjunction with my Yamaha organ for quite a few years. Although it was only monophonic I loved the synthetic voices -trumpets, flutes, etc that could immitate.
But after a few years it died.
I took it to a technician and asked him if he could fix it and he said he probably could and to leave it with him, but I never heard back.
Scroll ahead a few years and my wife decided to get it out for me and give it to me as a (joke) birthday present. She contacted the technician and told him that her husband had dropped in a Moog synthesizer about six or seven years ago and she would like it back.
He thought about it and said, "Oh yes, it'll be ready by Friday." laugh


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Originally Posted By: Keith from Oz
I just remembered a funny story about something that happened years ago.
In 1975, I'd been playing my organ in bands for a few years, and in a record shop I found an LP of music played on the Moog synthesizer. I loved the sound, and had to have one. I bought a Moog -it was expensive in those days - around $575.00 - but I bought it and used it in conjunction with my Yamaha organ for quite a few years. Although it was only monophonic I loved the synthetic voices -trumpets, flutes, etc that could immitate.
But after a few years it died.
I took it to a technician and asked him if he could fix it and he said he probably could and to leave it with him, but I never heard back.
Scroll ahead a few years and my wife decided to get it out for me and give it to me as a (joke) birthday present. She contacted the technician and told him that her husband had dropped in a Moog synthesizer about six or seven years ago and she would like it back.
He thought about it and said, "Oh yes, it'll be ready by Friday." laugh


I like the story. I wonder how he found it under all the other junk he has.

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Ha Ha. As they say, the squeaky wheel...

Presumably, the present actually turned up?


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Great story! Reminds me of a few instances way back when I worked at a local TV repair shop of when customers would take a couple years to pick up their repairs. At least in our defense we had actually done the work and phoned multiple times!


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Never forget an old joke. I told that joke for years about a shoe repair shop when I called 20 years later.

But in a REAL story, a guy I know in NC is Bob Moog's nephew. He has Mini Moog #4. In a box. As it came from the factory. I asked him once about how much money he plans to ask for it when he gets ready to sell, and his reply was "Whatever 4 years of a kid in college costs. Rick Wakeman will be my first contact!" To which I reply "You better get that kid into college soon. He is like 71 years old!"

Whenever I talk to him I offer him 50 bucks for it. His usual reply is something like "50 bucks will get you a Polaroid of it." Hope to visit him when I make my spring road trip (with the new dog!) and maybe get to see at least the box! LOL! I also hope to make it over to the Moogseum in Asheville.


I smashed the hell out of my car today. When the cops came I told him "Officer, that guy was BOTH texting and drinking a beer." The cop said "Sir, he has every right to do that. I mean, it's HIS living room..."
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Eddie, I just went to the Moog Museum in September. It was very cool and a lot of it is hands on (you get to play with theremins and synths and read about his time in North Carolina.

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Oh man I have to have that bench!!!!


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I guess that bench is for playing rests.


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Maybe it's a new kind of scale.

"How much do you weigh?"

"Octave and a half!"


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Originally Posted By: Notes Norton
I guess that bench is for playing rests.


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Cop, that's not how field sobriety tests work.

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