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Saturday, July 22, 2006

Oberheim OB-Xa

Title link takes you to shots pulled from this auction. It's currently at $2425.

18 comments:

  1. one of the best synth logos ever. I always liked it, and the big outline font on the ob series too.

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  2. Yeah, it's definitely my favorite.

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  3. thats interesting - i never noticed how "felix the cat" looking it was before

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  4. If you like that logo, check out this one from inside my old OB-SX:
    obsx_etch.jpg

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  5. I read in an interview that Mr. Van Halen wrote "Jump" when he was trying to figure out the chords to "Kiss on My List" by Messrs. Hall & Oates.

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  6. In the 'inside the Ion' post earlier in this blog, you see the alesis silk screen version of same logo.

    Better in foil tho.

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  7. I can't believe it...

    That price is obsolutely ridiculous.

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  8. Yeah, nothing beats the Pro-One for that circuit board surprise stuff.

    Even better than the silkscreened Hindu god (I don't think it's Buddha) is the etched mushrooms and mantra writing.

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  9. sorry, you are wrong there

    it is supposedly Chenrizig, the Tibetan Buddha of Compassion - and beyond that the image is recognizable as thangka style artwork, not hindu

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  10. Oh well, I'd just never seen a Buddha with four arms before.

    Good to know.

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  11. hehe 4 arms isnt really alot when it comes to tibetan buddhist deities

    check out this statue of a thousand armed, eleven headed Avalokiteshvara

    and sometimes Chenrizig is also depicted with a thousand arms as well

    multiple arms are symbolic of the buddhas compassionate activity in many different forms and dimensions simultaneously, while the multiple heads symbolize progressive degrees of transcendent awareness

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  12. So Yeti, since you know alot about this stuff, Do you know what group of monks built the Pro-One's in San Jose?

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  13. FYI the final price was $3550....for that I'd rather get the DSI PEK and 3 Moogerfoogers

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  14. WTF!! $3550?? There was just a Memorymoog + w/factory MIDI that had a Buy It Now cheaper than that!

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  15. i know a bit about buddhism, but ive never heard anything about monks building the pro-one

    whats that about?

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  16. I can't find anything on it with google right now. But I seem to remember reading something about the Pro-Ones being built by a trippy religious group. Maybe it was a lie, who knows.

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