[LAU] OT: Old Moog's Never Die

frank pirrone frankpirrone at gmail.com
Sat Jan 24 22:02:16 EST 2009


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Ken Restivo wrote:
> ... they just sit in the corner of someone's studio, collecting dust,
> until some random guy (me) gets called in to do some backup and
> archiving sysadmin tasks, and stumbles upon them:
> 
> http://www.restivo.org/misc/mooggasm/
> 
> This one is Serial Number 1037/1038 (a FrankenMoog?), made by Mr.
> Moog himself, in April of 1971. Discrete transistors, NO OP AMPS,
> apparently impossible to keep in tune.
> 
> No, it doesn't work, alas. The power amp section works (speakers go
> BOOM! when the thing is powered up, and noise can be heard when its
> output is turned up), but only OSC3 can be heard, faintly, as if it
> were bleed-through. No sound at all from OSC 1 or 2.
> 
> I don't need yet another project, otherwise I'd offer to buy it,
> strictly for the cool factor... if it were ever working again it
> would be SO sweet.
> 
> -ken
> 
Hey Ken!

I immediately jumped on the link, without reading the message, in
ecstatic anticipation of the sound files I'd find there.  Sigh...Moog
not working.

I used to have an Arp Odyssey that was oh-so-fun. You'd better believe
that cool factor thing.  I still sometimes speak in portamento out of
both adoration and respect for the dead!

Frank
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