[sdiy] "The" Buchla at Mills College

[mark verbos]

I'd fly myself in to work on it for free. Of course with the vintage of 
that thing it is probably a NIGHTMARE. Sure owuld love to see the 
schematics for that oscillator....

Mark





Peter Grenader wrote:
> 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.
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