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A Happy and Sad event

I am into electronic music and one of the people behind the recent revival of Analog Synthesizers is Paul Schreiber at Synthesis Technology. Paul has been building various modules following a hard-line no compromises approach to hardware and audio quality. One of Paul's guiding lights was the guy who started it all, Robert Moog. In his lifetime, Bob shipped a grand total of 6683 separate synthesizer modules, either singly or assembled into packaged systems. Today, Paul shipped module number 6684. Paul's reaction:
Click for full-size Image (That's Bob standing by one of Paul's systems.) The annual National Association of Music Merchants conference (NAMM) will be held next week. Unfortunately, Bob Moog died a few months ago from a brain tumor. Paul was looking forward to a little bit of good natured neener-neenering with Bob... Posted by DaveH at January 13, 2006 9:51 PM