Aries Modular Questions

[patchell]

    I was just looking through my copy of the 1979 catalog.  A multimode VCF
kit was $199.  Kind of a high price even these days (or I should say, that
price is on the upper end).  When you consider that was 1979 dollars, that is
pretty pricey.  The only thing I purchased from Aries was a five octave
keyboard.  And guess what, I am kicking myself for giving that thing away
now.......but, at the time, it was taking up space.

    -Jim
Tony Clark wrote:

> > I was going through my papers and found Aries Modular
> > catalogs for 1976, 1978 and 1979.
> >
> > Was there a 1980 or later catalog?
> >
> > Does anybody know what years Aries was in business
> > or what happened to the company?
>
>    About all I can gather is that the business went under from not enough
> sales.  Ron Riviera, the man behind the Aries went off to form his own
> company called Riviera Music Systems (RMS) which did mods to Minimoogs
> amongst other things.  Unfortunately I don't know any more than that.  I
> was given an email address of a friend of Riviera's, a former employee of
> Aries.  But I never got a reply when I inquired, so I doubt it'd be of
> any help.  A better bet might be to ask Jim Michmerhuizen (you can do a
> search on the web).  He was also a former Aries employee where I got my
> contact information from.
>
>    Tony
>
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