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I’ve posted smiles that have run a large rang. There have been simple things and complex, old and new, and.. wait… that sounds like something for this weeks smile :)
I received my first music synthesizer when I graduated high school. It was part graduation present and I paid for part of it. The instrument was a Realistic MG-1. That’s right, it came from Radio Shack! That being said, the basic synthesizer was built by Moog, a company that at one time was almost synonymous with synthesizer. Through the years I bought newer and better instruments. The MG-1 had two ways to make sounds – the Moog analog synth, which played one note at a time. This sound quickly became dated as the 80s progressed. Then there was an organ tone that I almost never used. The newer instruments had a “modern” sound and could play more than one note at a time. As time went by the keyboard had issues and other problems cropped up.
So, my first synthesizer has spent about 2 decades in a closet. Continue reading →