Wiardgroup

LOL!
i observe (admittedly to my uptight alarm and dismay) that oodles of
synth discussion forums could more properly be described as synth
PANEL discussion forums.***

sigh!
emoticons fail me!
(therefore please assume that i'm typing all this with a very smartass
grin on my old gray face)

for background i refer you to a photo i just posted in the photos
section, 'interesting packaging' folder, 2nd page, photo entitled:
"bizarre wiards'
also, for a soundtrack, please imagine vikings at a table in a small
English diner singing, sotto voce, "spam spam spam spam..."

(with apologies to the 'letters section' on the National Lampoon
Magazine in the '70's)

Dear Sirs,

"many people order spam eggs spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam
and spam... but i like spam eggs spam sausage spam sausage beans eggs
bacon sausage spam eggs spam blue entropy fish bottle eggs ham spam
and a pantomime horse with Sir Kenneth Clark in front and Dick Cavett
in back , and tea"

 i like weeds in my yard , both kinds of music: country AND western,
also bop, free jazz , mainstream, ska, fusion, dixieland, tone-row,
stride, delta blues, prog, rap, crunk, baroque, dub, house, folk rock,
trance, jam, bluegrass, romantic-period, spacegrass, emo, Jethro Tull,
King Pleasure and Wendy .....AND Morton. 

i have found my wiards to be useful for all of it. Furthermore, i like
my wiards in many different colors: tall blue, short black, tall
silver, (there's a red one out there!) and if you look at the bottom
right corner of the photo you'll see that i like yellow ones too. In
the upper left of the photo you'll see a single wogglebug in black. In
the  upper right, there is a WIARD mini-wave (not Blacet!) and in the
middle , with it's guts hanging out, is a wiard-designed
anti-oscillator, which just seemed too radical to put the innards
BEHIND the panel. (i used pieces of my old Erector Set on that one).

'Silly' and 'Fetish' are words that appear in mind often too, and my
motley chorus keeps me consistently amused and inspired, and sometimes
i don't label knobs because i WANT to forget what they do.

"golly" , my Aunt Doris said, "it takes all kinds don't it?"
But if we don't buy what Wiard has got now, there might just be one
kind less. That would be bad because then the new designs would just
end up on Grant's workbench and in Doc's goofy rig behind plexiglass
with knobs labelled by masking tape.

Buy more stuff now!

(this has been a public service announcement by the society for the
preservation of diversity in synthesizer formats)

We now return you to your regularly-scheduled discussion of
silk-screen legibility.

-Doc
 

*** 
a theory:
maybe that's because the overwhelming majority of us are men. Ask any
of the women out there and they'll tell you how important the OUTSIDE
of the package is to folks of our genital persuasion
;'>