[sdiy] So just what *is* the Buchla 291?

[David G. Dixon]

> ...hearsay.

Perhaps.  But people involved in Trumansburg operations were interviewed for
the book, which is thoroughly footnoted (as is, for example, the "copped"
statement).

> That seems like the conclusion you would draw if you were a Buchla fanboi,
> keen to knock Moog off a perceived pedestal.

Well, I'm not and I'm not.  In fact, I'm not really sure why I'm pursuing
this line of enquiry at all, except that I get a very different picture of
these two synth pioneers from the books I'm reading.  (Maybe I should stop
reading these books...?)

I guess I've always had this image of Moog as some sort of mystical
visionary, when the image of someone just trying to keep a marginal business
going and seizing opportunities as they arise is perhaps closer to the
truth.  Having had the dubious pleasure of inventing stuff myself (not in
the synth field, but in the copper hydrometallurgy field) I can say that it
is typically a process of either stumbling onto a fortuitous discovery or of
responding to a specific client's needs.