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

[karl dalen]

If you continue to read that book you will find that both Buchla and Moog
are put in not so favorable light as employers, and i get the impression Bob was very much against the whole idea behind the MiniMoog and it happened mostly because of his employees who in sort of half secret
mode continued to design it.

There are lots of hype around Buchla, Moog etc, i regard them as ordinary
businessmen (although Bob himself said he was a rotten one) wanting to make money for living and during the course did some neat and clever
designs. 

After all the hype theory are an American invention! ;)

Cheers
KD


--- Den sön 2010-05-09 skrev David G. Dixon <dixon at interchange.ubc.ca>:

> Från: David G. Dixon <dixon at interchange.ubc.ca>
> Ämne: Re: [sdiy] So just what *is* the Buchla 291?
> Till: "'Colin f'" <colin at colinfraser.com>, Synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Datum: söndag 9 maj 2010 22:07
> > ...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.
> 
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