[sdiy] Reprinting Electronotes

[Grant Richter]

The way Bernie Hutchins tells it...

Back when the wave of "vintage" synth fever came up, a number of websites
appeared offering the "Preferred Circuits Collection" and other Electronotes
material for sale. These were scams where crooks would just take the money
and not send anything back.

Bernie took all the heat for this, since the innocent victims did not know
they were dealing with criminals using the name Electronotes, and not the
real Electronotes.

So Bernie came down hard on anyone advertising the Electronotes material,
since he could not tell the sincere enthusiasts from the criminals
defrauding people of their money and ruining his good name.

While I can believe Bernie could accidentally screw up an order, I know he
is an honest, sincere and well meaning person. This list would not exist
without his efforts.

I would also like to thank Ric Jansen, John Simonton, Terry Michaels, Lester
Ludwig, Ian Fritz, Jim Patchell, John Talbert and several hundred other
really great guys who's generosity, public spirit and good citizenship made
Electronotes, Polyphony, and this list possible. Thank you all, your MY
hero's.

I bet if everyone put their profits together from electronic music books and
periodicals, they would have only lost a collective million bucks or so...


> From: "Barry Klein" <Barry.L.Klein at wdc.com>
> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 17:25:54 -0800
> To: "synth diy" <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
> Subject: RE: [sdiy] Reprinting Electronotes
> 
> Anyone who is willing to take subscriptions from 4-500 people, go to the
> hassle of answering all the inquiries, go to the post office to pick up a
> bunch of registered letters and sign for them, take personal checks, get
> money orders in foreign currency and return them, publish the old stuff,
> write the new stuff, build the circuits to verify they work, and then teach
> classes in a university (or whatever he did), do this without a computer -
> deserves the subsequent money for ongoing interest in the work he did.  It
> would drive me nuts.
> 
> Barry
>