Tony Moffett wrote:
> How about the Freeman string symphonizer? Anyone remember, own or use
> one? I fixed a few and for it's time (already had my Mellotron too), the
> sound was interesting. IMHO it far out did the ARP string ensemble, but
> was substantially larger like something else we cherish.
>
> Tony
> #510
Way back when, in the ∗good old days∗ when you could actually hear prog on
California FM radio in the middle of the afternoon, I was in a band that
pooled it's $$$ to buy a Micro-moog, a Rhodes 73 and an ARP Omni. Of
course we were always looking to upgrade equipment any way we could -- my
first bass was a 67 Gibson EBO for $20 + some Thai Stick...and I got to
smoke the Thai Stick, so I made out like a bandit. My first guitar was a
63 Mosrite with spectacular sunburst finish. I traded 75 LPs for it,
keeping my fingers crossed that its owner didn't want my Crimson, Yes,
Genesis, PFM, Banco, etc..... he didn't, so I dodged a bullet there :-)
I look back and realize we were pretty damn lucky to have acquired those
keyboards. We got them second hand -- real cheap -- through ads in "The
Reader" IIRC, and they were all in good working order. I wish I had them
now! Of course, now I have Greg Amov with a Roland XP-30 + a zillion
plugins, Mike Dickson with an M400 + monster frames, and more horspower
than God on my desktop music workstation, so it's still ∗all good∗, just
in a different way :-)
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Cheers,
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