It seems as though we were just talking about blogging and not blogging a few hours ago at rehearsal, maybe thats what got me in the mood… I am selling another one of my keyboards…well two for that matter. I have a roland JP8000 that I just don’t use and well, I could use the [...]

Posted on July 31st, 2006 by Charlie
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For the first time in a long time Chris and Rich had to work…and I didn’t. Haha!

Posted on January 23rd, 2006 by Charlie
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It happened in the early morning hours of Monday…The sky was a beautiful black, with the hinting of a Summer breeze not even close to existance…I was having a good ol’ time hammering out some notes on the Andromeda when…I broke the pitch wheel spring. From what I’ve read on the internet, which we all [...]

Posted on August 30th, 2005 by Charlie
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Well I’ve been busy for sure… Tonight I take a break, or so I plan to anyway. I just finished making a very nice Oberheim-like pad patch for the Andromeda. I was going for the Yamaha CS80 sound but I think it’s nealry impossible with DCO’s (Digitally Controlled Osc’s) like what the Andromeda has in [...]

Posted on August 28th, 2005 by Charlie
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I have sold my Memorymoog plus and will resume typing after I am done punching myself in the testicles. . . . . . . . It was the right thing to do, with all the projects I have going on right now (restoring my Clavinet, restoring my Rhodes, and thinking about restoring my Polymoogs), [...]

Posted on August 21st, 2005 by Charlie
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Ack! Now I’ve done it, I’ve gone and unstrung my clavinet. I have replacement strings of course and will begin restringing it at once …mmm…Coca-Cola…

Posted on August 21st, 2005 by Charlie
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For a few weeks now I’ve been searching for a project keyboard, something that doesn’t quite run/play right, something that needs a bit of tlc, something Moogish of course. Today I picked up an almost functioning Moog Polymoog Keyboard, model 280a with the Polypedal Controller, and began to disassemble it. It’s amazing to look at [...]

Posted on May 22nd, 2005 by Charlie
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…A Moog Memorymoog! Again I have to admit, working in a music store has its perks. A customer of Erik’s was looking to trade in some equipment to get yet more equipment (Man we all have it bad don’t we?) Erik graciously let me in on the deal. Together we went over the list of [...]

Posted on March 27th, 2005 by Charlie
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If you’re a musician working in a store that sells music equipment, hopefully you will have a day like this… This started out as an everyday normal transaction. This past Sunday afternoon, a customer came into the store Erik and I work at, looking for an instrument cable for a keyboard and a small amp. [...]

Posted on February 17th, 2005 by Charlie
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I can’t believe Chris and I have been art rockin’ and rollin’ for 6 years now. I’m starting feel old but at least I’m not as old as he is. Cheers mate, here’s to more good times!

Posted on January 24th, 2005 by Charlie
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