Comments on: The Avarus Battery-Powered Suitcase Synth Could Get You Strip Searched http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2009/11/01/the-avarus-battery-powered-suitcase-synth-could-get-you-strip-searched/ Synthesizer and electronic music news, synth and music software reviews and more! Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:47:58 -0500 hourly 1 By: Shaun http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2009/11/01/the-avarus-battery-powered-suitcase-synth-could-get-you-strip-searched/#comment-143909 Shaun Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:30:24 +0000 http://www.synthtopia.com/content/?p=18064#comment-143909 Imagine breaking this out at your next board meeting! <a href="http://thebatterytimes.com/2009/11/02/the-synthesizer-suitcase-batteries-not-included/" target="_blank">http://thebatterytimes.com/2009/11/02/the-synthes...</a> Imagine breaking this out at your next board meeting!

http://thebatterytimes.com/2009/11/02/the-synthes...

]]> By: synthhead http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2009/11/01/the-avarus-battery-powered-suitcase-synth-could-get-you-strip-searched/#comment-143904 synthhead Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:04:22 +0000 http://www.synthtopia.com/content/?p=18064#comment-143904 Great story. Good thing you didn't get the full body cavity search, though! Great story.

Good thing you didn't get the full body cavity search, though!

]]> By: Sotiris http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2009/11/01/the-avarus-battery-powered-suitcase-synth-could-get-you-strip-searched/#comment-143891 Sotiris Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:05:00 +0000 http://www.synthtopia.com/content/?p=18064#comment-143891 Well ... it happened to me a long time ago. It was 1990 (if i remember well) and one "Electroacoustics" professor at the Physics Department of our University gave me his Synthi AKS to take it home for a research project. On my way home, i was carrying it and tried to enter the building of a BIG Educational Institute (I will not tell you its name!) of my home city. I just wanted to use their library! While going through the door scanner, the alarms started screaming, the security guards stopped me, i opened the "case", they saw knobs, wires, pins, etc. they were horrified, they called more secuity officers, and i had to actually explain it AND give a demonstration of its use (thank god for the built in speakers!) to let me go free. One of them asked me if i was an "avant-guard" musician. Go figure. Well … it happened to me a long time ago. It was 1990 (if i remember well) and one "Electroacoustics" professor at the Physics Department of our University gave me his Synthi AKS to take it home for a research project. On my way home, i was carrying it and tried to enter the building of a BIG Educational Institute (I will not tell you its name!) of my home city. I just wanted to use their library! While going through the door scanner, the alarms started screaming, the security guards stopped me, i opened the "case", they saw knobs, wires, pins, etc. they were horrified, they called more secuity officers, and i had to actually explain it AND give a demonstration of its use (thank god for the built in speakers!) to let me go free. One of them asked me if i was an "avant-guard" musician. Go figure.

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