Saturday Synth Porn: Ever clean out the attic, and find a vintage Moog Minimoog that you’d forgotten about?
Probably not – unless you’re Gary Numan:
“Clearing out my garage loft yesterday, cut away some ivy creepers & found this!” tweets Gary Numan. “Original spec MiniMoog!”
Our take on this is that, if you’ve never owned an original Minimoog, you’ve got one more reason not to clean out the attic.
If you’ve got a similar story, though, let us know!
via Mark c Young
I once cleaned out the attic in a certain east coast university music department and found Synclavier ser. no. #4 with the old Hazeltine (1600?) computer that controlled it and a Buchla 200 along with a lot of edison platters and reels of old concerts.
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In high school, I had a band period where we had a little bit of free reign to work on whatever we wanted as long as we got all our work done. We started exploring an old closet that hadn’t really been delved into in decades, and low and behold, there was an old Fender Rhodes Mk. II. I promptly borrowed it from the school for about a month.
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a few days ago one friend of mine just found a MS-20 in the attic of his grandmothers house thet used to belong to his uncle,he is interested in analog synthesizing and music making for a few years, so now the uncle gived it away to him because it wasnt importan to him, what a lucky guy he is…
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I have had dreams like this many times…only to wake up with huge disappointment.
lucky, lucky bar steward. ;0)
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fuck
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In 1988 I left an ARP 2600, a Roland SH-5 and an Oberheim OB-X in a garage with my ex-wife after we broke up. With the old synth resurgence in the early 90′s I went back to get everything. They had been sitting in 6 inches of water for 5 years. Ruined.
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Poor, poor synths.
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You deserve it… leaving such FINE machines in a garage for chrissakes!
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Not surprising. You’d have to be Gary Numan to “just find” a Mini Moog you’d forgotten about. Or maybe Trent Reznor.
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We found a Mattel Synsonics in a friends loft one. He was using it as a tea coaster.
It’s not quite the same as a Minimoog is it?
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You’d think the person who mused about electric friends would be a better friend to his electronics.
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I would have expected that from Vince Clarke, but iI guess if anybody’s going to find an old synth in their attic that would be Gary Numan … and perhaps Alien Sex Fiend too.
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Found a Roland System 100 and expander at school that no one knew was there. 6 years later, I really wish I had have bought it from them.
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That’s lucky. My attic’s been cleaned a long time ago – never been any instruments in it… =/
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Every time my girlfriend goes to a flea market, I hope that she will find someone there who sells something like a TB-303 or a MS-10/20 for a cheap price, because they don’t have any clue about the value.
Unfortunately, I have not been lucky with that…yet
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In my attic right now: A Roland JX-10 and a Roland SH-101. I’ve been meaning to get them out and turn them on for a couple years. Maybe I’ll leave them there and try to forget them like GN did.
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Anytime you need your attic cleaned out……
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My old college had a cupboard full of old tape machines, power distribution boards and various bits of mangled computer gear. One day I was in there looking for a spare jack lead and I uncovered a Juno 6, a TR-606 and a Yamaha DX7. There was also and old powertran digital delay unit and an original small stone phaser. We dug it all out and ended up using the Juno in a performance. The whole lot is now in the studio there, but I don’t think anyone has used it since I left. Such a shame
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I live in an attic. All of my synths are up here with me, but they are neat and tidy.
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I ve found commodore 64, yeah!
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Not so much my attic but I got a mint unopened Crummar Performer string synth from a warehouse in South Australia that had been sitting there since 1982. Even still had the card with all the techs that built it.
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inspired by this I checked down the back of the sofa and found $2 and a Yamaha CS-80 that I completely forgot I had. How stupid I felt, I’d needed that $2 for a parking meter in town last weekend and received a hefty parking fine as a result. If only I’d thought to check earlier…
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