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Subject: Re: [motm] Modular sales?

From: "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@...>
Date: 2000-04-28

Modules.

Remember, a small Buchla 200 system, in 1972 dollars, was as much as 4 new
Corvettes!

Paul S.

----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Pearson <ceres@...>
To: <motm@egroups.com>
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: [motm] Modular sales?


Are these total sales of ∗modules∗ or ∗systems∗? (it's 1000 modules for
MOTM, right?)

450 seems awfully low for Buchla ∗modules∗, since Grant Richter's (F/i) and
Richard Franecki's (Voco Kesh, ex-F/i) systems in Milwaukee would account
for nearly a quarter of those! (I've seen Grant's, which is about 40
modules IIRC - and I've been told that Richard's is 1.5 times the size of
Grant's)

And 11000 sounds right for Moog ∗modules∗ - divide by Ben's 5 and you get
2200 ∗systems∗? (but 5 modules/system doesn't sound right either?!?)

-Doug
ceres@...

At 01:30 PM 04/28/2000 -0400, Ben Vehorn <ben@...> wrote:
>I'll believe the Moog thing since it came straight from Bob, but that
>count seems about 5x too high.
>Any guesses on Serge?
>
>Paul Schreiber wrote:
>
>> Oh, yeah!
>>
>> #1.5: Doepfer: Maybe around 6,000?
>>
>> Paul S.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Paul Schreiber <synth1@...>
>> To: MOTM listserv <motm@egroups.com>
>> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 11:48 AM
>> Subject: [motm] Modular sales?
>>
>>
>> This is just my educated guess. Feel free to add comments!
>>
>> #1: Moog. About 11,000 over 10yr period (Bob Moog told me this in
>> 1987)
>>
>> #2: PAiA 2700/4300 about 3,500 (wild-ass guess)
>>
>> #3: MOTM: as of this minute 996 shipped, another 88 on order :) And
>> going up
>> every day!
>>
>> #4: Roland 700/100m: guessing around 900 to1100 total
>>
>> #5: Aries: guessing around 1000
>>
>> #6: Polyfusion: wild-assed guess of about 500 (may be MUCH lower)
>>
>> #7: Buchla: (all series) about 450 (Don B. offhand comment to me
>> around 1986
>> at AES convention)
>>
>> Paul S.

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