Abandoned Moog Modular in India

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http://www.eastofborneo.org/articles/subcontinental-synth-david-tudor-and-the-first-moog-in-india

Very sad photo of an abandoned Moog modular. Also interesting to read of Tudor’s dislike for both man and machine version of Moog.

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I’ll never understand people not taking care of such expensive, and precious, instruments.

Some people just don’t care. And I don’t care about such people, even if he’s been dead for 17 years.

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Looks like a IIp with a sequencer cab. Wonder what the cab on the lower right is? And what are those VU meters for?

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Always wondered what was in that large crate going to India with Bob and Co. posing in Trumansburg.
From The Moog Archive site:

Looks to be a stock 2P with an extra cabinet containing a 960 sequencer and 912 envelope followers, with two custom preamps.

There were many abandoned Moogs in the dark ages of the 80’s. I remember explaning to many 80’s synth players that a Minimoog was still usefull as a bass and lead synthesizer. I was told it was mostly useless as it had no memory presets and only played one note at a time. Very few wanted a monophonic synthesizer at the time. That was just the mindset back then. Glad it has gone full circle and the old Moogs are fully appreciated for what they are today.

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I could’ve done with the appreciation holding off for another decade or so. I was born at the wrong time and now I have to pay an arm and a leg for a collector’s item just so I can use it for its original purpose.

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The horror! The title of this thread should warn of the graphic image.

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Yikes! Horrible After/Before pics. The doctor is surely smiling, which sucks seeing what happened to the unit.

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Tudor sounds like the typical intellectual stereotypical ass. Hates everything, so has to create a weird environment around himself and fill it with sycophants. Be a footnote in the lives of luminaries of the time. Like Wyatt hanging out with every musician in US in the 70’s.

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I think David Tudor was pretty freaking cool, personally.

:smiley:

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Wonder what the crate is worth?

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Probably $20 in wood. :mrgreen:

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That’s not just any crate, my friend–that’s a Moog crate!
Bob surely touched it! Maybe the wood came from his farm (is it walnut???)

Let the bidding begin!!

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Indian tech support wasn’t what it is now.

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The article says the studio suffered flooding of eight feet of water, and that Moog looks like it has flood damage.

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Heh… I just joined a southern rock band based in Trumansburg. The drummer/founder is a member of the Tompkins County historical society. When I told him of my RAM Minimoog, he said he knew Bob Moog back when the company was still in Trumansburg. He knew where Bob lived because he had done some cabinet woodworking for the RA Moog shop, he had supplied some of the walnut they used :exclamation: I’m going to have him make a replacement walnut trim for the top of the panel on my Minimoog, which was MIA when I bought it.

So I’m a Moog enthusiast playing piano in a southern rock band founded by a historian who knows the Moog history which is based in the town that birthed Moog synthesizers - and I’m not playing on any Moogs :confused: The only southern rock song I know of that had any Moog was Skynyrd’s “Saturday Night Special”, and you have to strain to pick it out of the mix. And I have a pic of the late great Steve Gaines in the studio, and in the background is a Moog 55 modular.

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THANKS FOR POSTING DR. F!
I agree WITH EchoTommy~ cool freak! … even without the free chutney recipes :laughing:
LOL to unfiltered’s response which brought back memories of MealSnap http://mealsnap.com pure magic!
congrats MC on the gig maybe you can sneak a little stealth minitaur or subphatty in there eventually :sunglasses:
interesting before Bob took the factory there, Asheville/NC was also home to Cage and Cunningham and presumably Tudor, at some point too

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Having visited Asheville at least 3x and living an hour from Ithaca/Trumansburg, there is definitely some similarity in culture and mindset between Asheville and Ithaca. Very liberal, art-oriented cities. Trumansburg is more conservative and traditional, back when the Moogworks was around the local folks were a bit taken aback by the unusual visitors (like Sun Ra) stopping to visit Moog.

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I used to live near Asheville, amazing place, definitely best place in North Carolina, but I guess that’s not saying much. There is a restaurant called Salsa’s that is better than anything I have had on the east coast. Last time I was there I saw Andie Macdowell walking downtown with a bunch of kids in tow. I was thinking about moving there, but I can’t handle the backwards politics.

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I know of a certain very relevant fellow who was also a fan of Salsa’s…