Brainwashed.com: The Eye - The New England Synthesizer Museum
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- Опубліковано 25 лип 2024
- In the quiet town of Nashua, New Hampshire, the New England Synthesizer Museum existed. Curator Dave Wilson (RIP) collected and repaired synthesizers and has worked various duties including proofreading and development for some of the world's most renowned synth makers.
I’ll never forget my visit.
rip dave, guy is a legend! " look who's showing off his release time"
I visited in the early 2000s , spending the afternoon and evening there for about 8 hours. I heard about the place in a keyboard magazine, and which warned about the state of the place and the host. I'm glad I didn't bring my wife who couldn't have dealt with that place and would have also been bored to death even if it had been immaculate. But I thank Dave for spending so much time with me showing me any keyboard I was interested in. I had been reading about vintage synths since the mid 80s, in Mark Vail's vintage synthesizer book and on my favorite records for ages. I got to try out many classics like the ARP 2500, Oberheim 2 Voice, MiniMoog, Mellotron 400 & many more. It was one of only 2 chances I've really had to see and try very many vintage synths since taking interest in them. The other places was the Analog Heaven show in the Boston area, maybe around 2010 or so?
I'll never forget one quote from the magazine review about the place. "There were keyboard magazines all over the floor from 1983, and pizza boxes from 1984!". LOL. They said they flew in to see the collection, and Dave insisted they stay at his place, the building with the collection. They said they swear the place was haunted.
RIP Dave. Thank you for showing me your collection. I hope in rock n roll Heaven, you have the chance to fix & design the keyboards for Keith Emerson, Richard Wright, Jon Lord and many others.
A rare jewel in the synth treasury. Thank you for making and posting this.
Amazing fellow.. appears he's passed away - sorry to hear that - I may or may not have known him as I worked at Daddy's Junky Music from 1984-89 at almost all locations.. and had the pleasure of knowing/selling most of the equipment displayed here - maybe even to Dave himself - who knows..
At any rate: a plethora of info here - enjoy!
RIP - a friend and I visited this 'museum' around 2003ish. He fixed an old Moog of mine. Obviously a brilliant guy, and there were literally synths piled everywhere. It was a cool place but too bad that he was so extremely eccentric because the house was completely falling apart, I don't know how anyone lived there.
Sorry to hear about this! Is there still a museum/tech operating in Nashua? RIP
what a great series! Dave here is amazing, i just wonder what happened to everything? i hope it all found a good home.
"... because I stayed home and did algebra while everyone else had sex" classic XD
There was that magic period centering on 1990 when things hit rock bottom; Minimoogs for $300 or less, Polymoogs for $150, Micromoog Prodigy ARP Solus and Soloist were about $100-150. Modular synths were NEVER cheap, always thousands on the open market. But Jupiter 8s and Prophet Vs were all under $1000 all the time. Things have changed... but we now have some great new synths.
I paid $800 for Jupiter 8 and thought I paid a lot.
PS What happened to all these units!?
I was lucky enough to visit the museum around 2000 and I met Dave. The place was most definitely a mess! There were synths of all types stacked up and piled up everywhere. Dave was a really nice guy. Eccentric of course, but who care? Sadly, I was with my ex and her friend at the time and they just couldn't wait to get out of there. I eventually got to fiddle with a Minimoog at the end but had about 3 or 4 minutes under duress on it because everyone was watching and the people I was with were so eager to leave. It was certainly a cool experience and I'm happy I went :)
Sythesizer abuse call the police.
if only he had a kickstarter :.( I would have helped him build out that museum for free.
Dude how do you get offered to play a minimoog and not hop on the thing
The part where he lists up the synths that people have given away to him cracked me up. A Micromoog for free? A Chroma Polaris for $10 and Korg MS20 for $50?? Where was I when that happened? Right I was in middle school.. I regret not being born 10 years earlier!