[sdiy] "The" Buchla at Mills College

[Peter Grenader]

I met Tom yesterday.  He's great.  He also has a 25 ton bench punch, which
miffed Mike Brown off because ours is only 4 ton.  So it would be fair to
say that Tom is very punchy.

ha ha

I'll call Don about this system - I bet ya dollars to donuts he won't want
to get near the dang thing however.

I would recommend JL in Calgary.  I would not send this unit to anyone else
- it is of great historic import.  JL knows 100's.  He's the best there is.

- P



Tom Arnold wrote:

> Here's a weird one for yah.
> 
> So, a friend of mine is going to Mills College.  Being a synth-geek he of
> course hunted down The Buchla.
> 
> Its status : It doesnt work.  Paperwork is hard to find on it, they may have
> some but its missing or very scarce.  Whats worse is they mostly dont care
> about the unit.  However, they are interested in it working again.
> 
> They also have a largeish Moog system that is in use for classes.  It has
> several VCOs out.  I've volunteered to work on them if only to get access to
> the Buchla.  Personally I'd love to work on the Buchla too, but I also
> realise that this particular machine is part of Electronic Music's heritage
> and there are definatly people better qualified to work on it than me.
> 
> I guess I'm sending this email to see who would be interested in working on
> this guy for probably little or no money.  Perhaps I'm hoping that Buchla
> himself or people who work with him might volunteer.  I know there are a lot
> of people who'd love to know details of the modules in it so at least
> I can try and document whats there.