[sdiy] [SDIY] History of SDIY?

[Bernard Arthur Hutchins Jr]

In 1971, Boob Moog, who was then teaching at Cornell EE in a guest position, applied for a professorship.  He was told that if he accepted the academic appointment, he would have to give up Moog Music.  (Because so many professors, a least subsequently, were involved in business interests, it is not clear why this applied to him.)   They expected him to refuse, assuming his money situation was as strong as his fame – it certainly was not.  He agreed to the proposed stipulation, and was then told “electronic music “was not “really” something the department wanted to get involved with.   (I had a very good EE source on this information.)

Was he the first SDIY type.  I certainly think so.  He was always concerned with making real things.  One of his PhD advisers told me that if they “hadn’t let him sit in the AP lab and turn all those knobs, he never would have finished.”  The man was something else.

-Bernie



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