I’ve wanted a synth for quite a while now, and the opportunity to buy one came in a different way than I was expecting. In the first couple weeks of work I was doing a lot of reading to try to learn the different technologies, and after reading technical documents for a few hours it gets hard to concentrate. A friend of mine told me about the classifieds email list and said whenever he needs a break he takes a look through the hundreds of emails sent to this list. People sell everything on there, pets, cars, broken xbox’s, the list goes on. I was tempted several times with great deals on DSLR’s people were selling and even a guitar I wanted. When I saw this synth on the list I knew it was too great a deal to pass up.
I headed over to the owner’s house to pick up my new purchase. We talked for a while and I learned he was the leader of an Indian band that practices regularly at Qualcomm. He was showing me his other instruments and asked what songs I knew on piano. By this time I hadn’t played for about a month and didn’t know too many songs when I was playing. The first song that came to mind was Let It Be. I started playing and singing and he and his wife looked at each other, then asked me to join their practices. I had visions of George Harrison playing sitar going through my head. I agreed and was very excited to check this out. Unfortunately, a couple days before the first practice something else came up and I couldn’t go. Since then, I still haven’t checked it out.
I wanted this mostly for my solo work, as The Soloists have kept a pretty standard guitar-piano set, but we’ll experiment with some things and see where they go. I can’t wait to start working on new music with it!
-Eric