[sdiy] [OT] How did you start?

[Florian Anwander]

Hello,

it started when I was 14 years old (umm... 1973) with a birthday 
present: a kosmos experimental kit. One experiment built a tunable 
multivibrator. I found that it anoying to set the tuning with a 
potentiometer. Occasionally I had stumbled over a resistance wire (I 
think from a heater), and I used it in the kind of a ribbon controller 
for that multivibrator.
I thought I hav invented a new instrument, but had to findout that Mr 
Trautwein was faster than me. So I went on exploring and found that I 
can record the multivibrators out to my ITT-cassette deck, play it back 
and play a second voice on the resistance wire...

That was the moment when my parents decided that I will get a headphone 
though my birthday was two months ago.
With 15 I had my first job where I earned 900 Deutschmarks with in one 
months: I bought a used Yamaha YC-30 one week later the guy from the 
music shop told me, he will no longer do Yamaha repairs, and he would 
give me the service manual of the YC-30.... and from here I think it is 
the same story as of anybody else here ;-)


Florian

Ian Smith wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I'm posting this as off topic because it's more about you people than synths. I'm doing an informative speech on SDIY for my public speaking class and I'd like to have some testimonials about how other people besides myself got started in SDIY. I'm not looking for anything lengthy or profound, just one or two sentences about what got you into this awesome hobby/addiction. 
> 
> Thanks for your time and patience,
> 
> -Ian
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