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assorted rambling about electronic music, vintage synths, and whatever else.

26 May, 2006

to say it has a lot of sliders is an understatement.




i love that tagline: "to say it's polyphonic is an understatement."
actually, no. to say it's polyphonic would be an exactly accurate
statement. kind of like when people refer to things as 'extremely
unique.'

but enough of my problems with the misuse of the english language
(don't get me started on 'guesstimate,' 'irregardless, ' or my
personal favorite, 'taking a different tact.')

sorry, im going to stay on this for another paragraph. try it
yourself; do a google search for the phrase 'taking a
different tact'
and look at the websites you are shown, now
replace the word tact with the correct word 'tack.' instead of a
meaningless sentence, you now have one that means 'to go in a
different direction.'

sorry. back to the
polymoog.
mmm, lots of switches. mine generated enough heat, it
allowed me to get rid of my space heater. oh wait. i suddenly get
what they meant by 'understatement.' the poly used a divide down
oscillator, alot like organs in the 70's did so basically it had 71-
note polyphony. ok. and it was a little bit lighter than the cs-80,
but it didn't have those swell screw-on chrome legs like the cs. the
moog did stay in tune a little better though.

anyone out there remember what it was like to
tune a yamaha cs-80?
the music store in my hometown used to offer
the service for $175, Butch, the repair guy would take a whole day to
get it in tune, and it might last you a few gigs, as long as it
didn't rain, snow, or the temperature didn't fluctuate more than 5
degrees F. i do miss the old days.

not just polymoogs in this clip of gary numan on SNL back in 1980.
looks like they cleaned out the entire R.A. Moog Co. warehouse for
this one:

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