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Maybe we'll see that, I'd like to see something like that. Although Tom
Oberheim also got screwed (by Gibson).<br>
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-Jonathan</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I think Dave Smith has the right idea.
This time around he is purposefully keeping the company a small, one-man
operation (although I still think he should hire me to do his mechanical
drawings and CAD work…but that’s another story). Also, I guess
history has a lesson or two for us: If you sell your company to a big
corporation, be prepared for them to muck it up and to keep the rights to your
name for a long time. Look at Bob Moog and Norlin. Or Tom O and Gibson. It’s
a shame that the American and European synth industry basically got beat up and
thrown in the dumpster by the flood of DX-7s, but at least people have (sort
of) come around to realize that a good sounding synth is a good sounding synth
whether its analog or digital or FM or sampling or ROM playback or liquid/chemical
reaction bath or whatever.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Not quite sure where I’m going with
this, so I’ll shut up now. ;)</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Tim (shutting up) Servo</span></font></p>
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