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Electronic Instruments for the Musician

K-A-MOOG CO-

TRUMANSBURG, NEW YORK 14886 * AREA CODE 607 387-9200

November 10, 1964

Dr. Otto W. Henry, Chairman
Department of Music

Washington and Jefferson College
Washington, Pennsylvania

Dear Dr. Henry:

Thank you for your November 6th letter. Your suggestions
and comments are most welcome. We are the first to design and
build "standard" instruments for electronic music composition,
Our design effort is motivated entirely by our conversation
and working experience with electronic music composers. The
few instruments which we are now offering satisfy a wide-
Spread need for relatively inexpensive equipment which is easy
to operate, A simple studio may be assembled from our instru-
ments for less than $1000. While this amount is not excessive
aS electronic music studios go, it certainly does represent a
Sizable investment for independent composers. We certainly
do intend to include very simple modular instruments in our
line. These will be priced somewhat lower than our present
Oscillators and amplifiers.

Permit me to ask you what your greatest needs are at this
time. We are developing several new circuits and instruments.
It is our practise to loan developmental prototypes to electronic
muSic composers for trial and evaluation. For instance, do you
now need a ring modulator or a bell gate? Would you be interested
in trying a bank of oscillators?

Except for recording equipment, we have a more or less com-
plete studio here. I am mulling over the possibility of running
an electronic music composition workshop next summer, My pre-
sent idea is to invite two or three experienced composers and
perhaps twice that many talented and interested composition
Students. The workshop activities would consist of a course in
basic "electronics for musicians" (which I would give), seminars
in the techniques and esthetics of electronic music composition,
and lots of actual experience in composing. May I have your
ideas on such a workshop? Would you be interested in attend-
ing yourself?

SWERe

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Moog to Henry
November 10, 1964
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I sincerely hope that you will have the opportunity to
answer the questions in this letter, and to offer further
comments. May I hear from you in the near future?

Sincerely yours,

Robert A. Moog