swampscott?
On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, FRED giannelli wrote: > on 10/10/04 8:40 PM, Greg Earle at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 at 7:06 PM, Lester Kenyatta Spence wrote: > > > >> On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> My high school used to offer classes in electronic music. This was > >>> back in.............oh, 1986. > >>> We used Sequential Circuit Pro One synths and recorded to 4 track > >>> reel-to-reel. Learned all about FM synthesis. > >>> Best class in high school ever. > >>> > >>> I doubt they still offer it. > >> > > > > > >> wow. that's got to be the earliest i've heard of something like that. > > > > 1986? Heh. Not even close. :-) > > > > In 1976 I took an Electronic Music class in my Senior year in high school > > in Massachusetts (one town over from where our esteemed Mr. Fred Gianelli > > now dwells). We had, among other things, an ARP 2600 to play with. > > (Unfortunately, having no musical ability whatsoever, and still being in the > > throes of my pathetic adolescent ELP infatuation, I fancied myself the next > > Keith Emerson instead of the next Eno or John Foxx. Oh well. At least > > it was fun patching all the patch cords to the VCO's and VCF's and making > > weird whooping noises with it.) > > > > Incredibly enough, right around that same timeframe, 1975-1976, there was > > an ARP store on the 2nd floor of a house that had a liquor store in the > > floor > > down on the street level. I don't remember what they sold - probably the > > AXXE, maybe an Omni, and the 2600 - but I remember going in there and > > being amazed that it even existed. Heck, I would've been amazed to find it > > in Boston - back in that day, it was far too specialized. Needless to > > say, it > > went out of business not too long afterwards ... > > > > - Greg > > > Beverly ? Peabody ? Marblehead ? Swampscott ? Lynn ? > >
