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Re: Looping in 4th Grade

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Trenkel <improv@peak.org>
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com 
<Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Date: Saturday, March 17, 2001 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: Looping in 4th Grade


>What an extraordinarily cool story! Who knows waht kind of influence 
>you're
>having on those kids! One pivotal moment for me was in 6th grade when our
>music teacher, who played keyboards in bands as well as teaching, brought
>his new Minimoog to show the class one day. This was when ELP's "Lucky 
>Man"
>was a hit, and I remember being totally into Emerson's synth solo at the
>end. Getting a hands-on demo of a synth at that impressionable of an age 
>is
>part of what set me on the course of being a musician. Which, maybe in the
>long run, wasn't such a great idea....

Speaking of minimooog...  Some examples of the forthcoming MacBeth 
monosynth are
now available at: http://www.macbethstudiosystems.freeserve.co.uk/

Bill         billfox@fast.net
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