Day job moog

[george & lorraine]

-----Original Message-----
From: McIntosh, Malcolm <mmcintos at ball.com>
To: synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl <synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl>
Date: 12 January 1999 18:52
Subject: RE: Day job


>I am an optical engineer at Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colorado, USA.  I
>have a masters in physics.  In a pervious life I worked at the Oak Ridge
>National Laboratory.  I can tell you little about that, and you really
don't
>want to know.  At Ball, I design, test, trouble shoot and integrate optical
>subsystems into larger systems.  Mostly space based instrumentation, earth
>imagers, space based telescope stuff, laser tracking and illumination,
>etc....  It's fun and challenging.  However, I have always loved
>synthesizers since I saw a demonstration of a Moog synthesizer in the
public
>library at age 10!  (The Moog consisted of a 3 boxes with modules in it and
>a separate keyboard.  The thing would fold up so that the outer two boxes
>closed over the center one.  If anyone knows what kind of Moog that was, I
>appreciate the information!)  I took a break from music and synthesizers
for
>about 10 years.  But, the love of analog sound synthesis hit me like a ton
>of bricks.  So, now I am forced to learn about analog electronics.  Long
>term goal and dream: build a polyphonic analog synthesizer with 8 voices
>which beats the memorymoog!
>


Hi malcolm
I may very well be wrong but i think that monster Moog was used by Wendy
(nee Walter) Carlos on " switched on Bach".
I seem to remember it's shown on the album cover (a copy of which i  sadly
got rid of a long! time ago).
I think it was the 101, or something like that?.

Live long and prosper.

George,8track man,Bath,U.K.