Electronic Instruments for the MusicianK-A-MOOG CO-TRUMANSBURG, NEW YORK 14886 * AREA CODE 607 387-9200November 10, 1964Dr. Otto W. Henry, ChairmanDepartment of MusicWashington and Jefferson CollegeWashington, PennsylvaniaDear Dr. Henry:Thank you for your November 6th letter. Your suggestionsand comments are most welcome. We are the first to design andbuild "standard" instruments for electronic music composition,Our design effort is motivated entirely by our conversationand working experience with electronic music composers. Thefew instruments which we are now offering satisfy a wide-Spread need for relatively inexpensive equipment which is easyto operate, A simple studio may be assembled from our instru-ments for less than $1000. While this amount is not excessiveaS electronic music studios go, it certainly does represent aSizable investment for independent composers. We certainlydo intend to include very simple modular instruments in ourline. These will be priced somewhat lower than our presentOscillators and amplifiers.Permit me to ask you what your greatest needs are at thistime. We are developing several new circuits and instruments.It is our practise to loan developmental prototypes to electronicmuSic composers for trial and evaluation. For instance, do younow need a ring modulator or a bell gate? Would you be interestedin 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 runningan electronic music composition workshop next summer, My pre-sent idea is to invite two or three experienced composers andperhaps twice that many talented and interested compositionStudents. The workshop activities would consist of a course inbasic "electronics for musicians" (which I would give), seminarsin the techniques and esthetics of electronic music composition,and lots of actual experience in composing. May I have yourideas on such a workshop? Would you be interested in attend-ing yourself?SWERe_254 -19�