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[cardinal4]

Oh and add me, please..

[henkster]

My oldest brother, the electronics geek, tried to build a synthesizer from scratch components back around 1972-1973. There was one part he just couldn’t to get to work right so he abandoned the project. However, he was able to build radios from scrap parts when he was 14, so if he couldn’t build a synthesizer it must have been a challenge.

His love of synthesizer music exposed me to Yes, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Alan Parsons, and Tomita. Among other things.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

That was an early homebrew one, all voltage controlled, eg; analog. In 1980 in NYC, my partner had John McLaughlin’s larval guitar synthesizer, consisting of 6 minimoog guts in a roadcase.