User:Onevoltperoctave

One Volt Per Octave:

I am One Volt Per Octave, a nickname taken from the operating control of the original Moog Synthesisers that had a logarithmic voltage control system.

For 52 years, I've been inhaling air on this fair planet. Scotland is my present home although I'd say I'm English by birth. Daveyhulme/Patricroft area of Manchester is where I was born although records at the adoption society that got me a good billet suggest that I was conceived in Newry in Northern Ireland near the border with the South. My natural mum was Irish and, I'm told, my natural father was Scottish. My adoptive parents were a Lancastrian man, from Glazebury in Lancashire and my mum, from Montreal, a Canadian. Both have passed away - my dad 22 years ago and my mum a little over a month ago (this being written on Feb 8th 2009), Time for an update on the slowest blog in history:

It is June 2012 and I now live on my narrowboat, the aptly named 'onevoltperoctave' and am currently in Cheshire between Hack Green and Audlem. I continue to collect synthesisers and organs and generally have a piano - electronic, digital, sampled - an old Clavinova, a Korg Triton Rack, and a Moog or two. Illness has spoiled what was going to be my getaway-semi-retired year but there are a lot of folk worse off than I. At least I am where I want to be...

My interests are:

Analogue and digital synthesisers - even the newer software synths for their ability to 'ape' the analogue ones out of my range. Tonewheel Organs Electronic Theatre and Liturgical Organs Model Railways: 00 gauge UK my lifetime - 1957 to the present. mainly diesel but a friend is gradually converting me to steam Full sized railways - mainly UK Buses & Coaches - European Music: Classical, Opera, Baroque etc. Traditional and Electronic (W Carlos etc) Music: Modern - Prog Rock and most things of substance between 1964 and present Cats: we have two moggies, neutered males, Stanley and William

Moog ARP Oberheim Buchla Roland EMS Analogue Systems Analogue Solutions Doepfer Hammond Compton Hornby Basset Lowke Lima Bachmann Neoplan Setra Drogmoller Leyland AEC Blackpool Coronation Bach Wagner Prokofiev Mussorsky Beethoven Elgar ELP Pink Floyd Yes Genesis Uriah Heep Caravan Camel King Crimson The Nice Miaow