Difficult Music.

4700 Series.

Spotted this in the daily Reverb trawl (that they’ve co-opted us into a non-transferable FunBucks™ situation was a surprise, though it just leads to just a couple of things coming in as so many go out).

A spry $1400 gets you the keyboard, plus two powered/conjoined cabinets with:

4712 Reverb
4740 Envelope Generator (x2)
4710 Balanced Modulator (x2)
4711 4/2 Mixer
4720 VCO (x3 total)
4730 VCF
4770 Watt Block (x3)
Control Oscillator
4761 Wing
4780 Sequencer

So tempted; it’s out in the near boroughs of Long Island & I have in no great detail envisioned the idea of the walk (about 13 min, 0.5 mi) to Atlantic Terminal to catch the LIRR to Jamaica (21 min, 3 stops) to transfer to the LIRR to Ronkonkoma (37 min, 4 stops) to catch the Bus4 Amityville Railroad via Brentwood Railroad to Wyandanch (9 min, 11 stops) to walk & transfer to the Bus10 Babylon Railroad via North Lindenhurst (5 min, non-stop) to walk another 24 min (1.1 mi) into the heart of West Babylon (Darkness) with a hand-truck /dolly in tow to maybe fit all of this before doing it all again in reverse w/ easily > 200 lbs. of dead/wood/tolex weight, thereby saving $200 in postage.

PS. PAiA has left a long-lasting psychic imprint in my life. My younger brother built a FatMan before I had even really fully clocked what synth kits could entail; a decade later I put a dent in a complete 9700 Series row / frac / rak, to capitulate only halfway through (so many flying wires!) before it had made a sound. I’ve been jonesing for a copy of the Richard Bugg demo flexi for some time now, or even reasonably-priced copies of the Non Compos Mentis Cosmic Debris LPs & Tapes; get in touch if you’re hodlin!

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