Electronotes? Where to get them??

[gstopp at fibermux.com]

     Is this in a FAQ somewhere?
     
     I'll dive in with this one:
     
     Electronotes is (was) a newsletter published by "The Musical 
     Engineering Group", headed by a guy named Bernie Hutchins in New York, 
     from the early 70's to the early 80's, and beyond (so they say).
     
     The topic was electronic music and construction of home-built 
     electronic music equipment. Due to the era in which it was published 
     the biggest percentage of circuits published had to do with 
     keyboard-controlled modular analog synthesizers.
     
     Many (now) legendary analog synthesizer pioneers authored articles in 
     Electronotes, including Hal Chamberlin, Dave Rossum (founder of Emu), 
     Craig Anderton, Serge Tcherblahblah (sorry Serge), Thomas Henry, John 
     Simonton, and Don Lancaster. Robert Moog's interviews were incredibly 
     visionary, for the time (go back and read them!).
     
     During this period in history just about all modern analog synthesizer 
     circuit types were explored and practically beat into the ground. 
     Op-amps became cheap, digital became popular, microprocessors were 
     becoming available to hobbyists, and custom chips were being created. 
     Kraftwerk, DEVO, Soft Cell, Larry Fast, Tomita, and other musical 
     artists were discussed and reviewed.
     
     The best circuits in Electronotes are just as good, if not better, 
     than the best circuits used in commercial synthesizers. Lots and lots 
     of theory was used, so even if the circuit wasn't the best, with their 
     help you could figure out how to make it the best (assuming you 
     understood the theory).
     
     Some people have personal copies of Electronotes. I have a complete 
     set from issue #1 to somewhere around issue #134, which is when their 
     distribution became somewhat erratic. In 1974 I borrowed about half of 
     what I have from a guy in high school, and I never had the chance to 
     give it back (thanks Doug, wherever you are). The rest I filled in by 
     sharing with another fellow I met years later, plus a joint 
     subscription until they flaked out.
     
     Recently (last year) I spoke with Bernie and got a new order form in 
     the mail. However amidst many stories of lack of response or lost 
     checks in the mail, I never bothered to order a new subscription. I 
     still have the order forms so if anybody wants a faxed copy I'll do it 
     - try it at your own risk.
     
     As for my own copies of Electronotes - although I have a scanner I 
     will not expend the time nor energy to scan a couple thousand pages of 
     text and diagrams. Since most of the pages are rather well-used and 
     dog-eared it cannot be xeroxed except by the one-page-at-a-time method 
     - this I will not do either. I will not lend them out nor take them to 
     a copying service.
     
     However I will xerox and fax single page schematics if the demand is 
     there. I'll also do onesy-twoseys if the requestor knows exactly what 
     he wants. If a fax isn't available I can easily send it snail-mail. 
     And of course I can only do these things when time permits.
     
     Somebody recently mentioned in a post that a library had the whole set 
     - who was that, and where was the library? Do other libraries have it 
     too? This is great news for those who can get to these places.
     
     - Gene
     gstopp at fibermux.com


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Subject: Electronotes? Where to get them??
Author:  "Daniel Oberfeld / SFB_-186" <OBERFELD at sfb186.uni-bremen.de> at 
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Date:    4/16/96 5:39 AM

Hi,
please excuse this newcomer's question but where do I 
have a chance to get the often mentioned Electronotes? 
Is it a print or an online medium?