[sdiy] History of SDIY?

[Scott Gravenhorst]

Florian Anwander <fanwander at mnet-online.de> wrote:
>Am 29.05.2018 um 17:23 schrieb Scott Gravenhorst:
>>   It is
>> simply "Synthesizer Do It Yourself", a definition in 4 words 
>that I personally find sufficient. > The last 3 words are pretty 
>easy to nail down, but the first is, well, any darn thing we 
>want. Something "DIY" is very different from "R&D" or even 
>inventing. "DIY" means doing/building somthing yourself which you 
>could buy too. 
>
>So Synth-DIY can't start befor the existence of synths produced and sold 
>under industrial or at least economical conditions.
>
>Florian
>
>-- 
>http://www.florian-anwander.de

That's a bit hard to say, unless the definition of SDIY refers to this list forum per
se (which I agree it could).  

However, I do remember my years of experimenting with oscillators that could also be
called my own synth DIY (This was before the internet existed).  There were electronic
organs in those days, but nothing called a "synthesizer".  I remember a cute little
circuit I came up with for my guitar.  A UJT oscillator that had an audio input from
my electric guitar.  I found that the oscillator would lock to either the fundamental
or a fifth of it and play the tone.  I'm kidding here - but did I invent the Guitar
Synth?  Note that I built it on what was then called a "bread board".  Not a real
bread board for bread, but an old piece of wood from the garage.  Takes me back...


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