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I’m just sitting here thinking… Boy, there’san awful lot of “Stooge Larry” in my modular.
He helped me pick out and wire up my bigger power supplies. Wediscussed modifications to the Moog Etherwave and PAIA Theremins. We tossedaround all sorts of ideas that gelled into some DIY projects. In fact, he and Itraded probably about 200 e-mails years ago discussing ways to modify theBlacet Research ‘Frequency Divider’ module which we’d bothjust purchased, to convert them to MOTM format – our first real “modproject,” I think. We probably traded three dozen e-mails just regardingwhat capacitor values worked best to expand the filter on that thing… Weworked out different methods of doing front panels for the FD module whicheventually pushed him into the whole ‘Stooge Panel’ cottageindustry to replace our paper, glue, & lacquer methods. Somewhere in allthat, we became electronic friends.
His interval switch modules, which quickly followed our FreqDivider mods, I think came largely out of a long series of e-mails that wetraded on that subject (he was probably conversing with others about it as well,I’m sure). Come to think of it, we never did get around to doing one ofthe “mods” to that project that we discussed a lot at the time,which was to make a version with resistors selected so that each turn of therotary switch moved the pitch of a VCO up, not a semitone, but a harmonicinterval, so that you could tune your VCOs together and then “dial in”a precise harmonic relationship, not a chromatic interval. He got so involvedwith panels, cabinets, rails, panel brackets, and patchcords for everybody thatwe never got back to those early ideas. He seemed to always be trying to thinkof ways to help out the MOTM community. He never just worked on his own synth;everything he did to it, he was always thinking, “How can this help out everybodyelse?” He didn’t just make a cabinet for himself; he wanted to makecabinets available to everybody! And absolutely not for the money, that’sfor sure.
Boy it’s going to be hard to look at all those panelsand multi-colored patchcords and not think of him all the time now. Here I amstill depressed about Bob Moog and now lightning strikes our little familyhard.
All the more, I want to go to some of these gatherings andmeet more MOTMers, put faces to the names on this list while we’re allstill together on this Earth. I was just _lucky_ that he happened to be passingthrough my area on his bike a few years ago. Otherwise I never would have methim.
Sorry about the rambling… just thinking out loud. Ithink it’s going to be a day for that. Can’t help it.
KT