Here's one for the archives. Title link takes you to the Craigslist post while it's up. Enjoy. This gem via Kerry.
"RARE SYNTH GEAR ABOUT TO BE DESTROYED...PLEASE HELP
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Reply to: sale-203465817@craigslist.org
Date: 2006-09-05, 5:46PM PDT
The Original Post Sunday Morning was for "Church selling organs and old telephone boxes" . Included in the equipment were numerous Buchla boxes (modular synth gear). The Church people were misinformed and told it was worthless, and a friend of theirs is disposing of it in a dumpster behind his supermarket. The ad had no contact information so I only received the included email this morning stating that the boxes were going to be thrown away in the "large bin" behind Mr. Chung's supermarket.
I called looking for Baptist Chuches that were closing, and other places, but I only know that this is somewhere in Los Angeles...so now I post for any help in finding these boxes before it's too late.
please let me know your thoughts and/or informations asap
Thank You So Much
A.
...and the email with a few clues, also PJ is somehow related to a Rev. Devon if that helps any...
Oh my! I forgot to put our phone number or website. Well, I am so sorry
about that. I was wondering why nobody called. I just checked my email today.
Sorry to say that all the items have all been sold. I owe an apology for those that emailed me. With all the moving and cleaning, I must have rushed through the ad. I guess I should let you know that they went to good homes. The Elka Synthex was purchased by the local community center so that the elementary street kids can learn to play organ after school. The Yamaha DX-1 was sold to the senior center. As for the telephone boxes, I asked the phone company gentlmen that came to disconnect our phone and he pointed out that they were not telephone boxes. He noticed that there were a lot numbers in the cases something from 100s up to like almost 200. There were over 80 of these Bulcha things. He said they were outdated lab equipment for some kind of testing and useless. So we called the trash company pick-up but they would not take electronic equipment. So a friend of ours, Mr Chung left them in back of his supermarket and said he would throw them in his large bin for us. Again, I apologize for not putting all the info. We are leaving today for Texas. Have a very nice day! I won't be using this email anymore since my new one will be from the new church.
God Bless you all and a safe trip to us!
P.J.
Southern Baptist Group
this is in or around Somewhere in LA"
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
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this just screams hoax. everything from the too-cute-but-deliberately-recognizable misspelling 'bulcha' to the stereotypical-and-conveniently-anonymous 'mr. chung', who's certainly accomodating, hauling all that 'lab equipment' out to his dumpster.
ReplyDeletethe lord sure moves in mysterious ways, what with how he inspired the rev. devon to use craigslist to list these 'telephone boxes', without ever leading him to google the devices and discover the fact that he'd be able to outdo his collection-plate income by a factor of several hundred by selling them off to a bleephead. our inspired reverend even had the good sense to make a completely information-free post to craigslist before skipping town -- why?
still, if anybody manages to find this 'large bin', i bet there's an SMS 2000 in there next to all those bulchas.
it's a cute hoax, but it's a hoax.
FAKE
ReplyDeleteoh, and word on the street is that mr. chung stashed the baptists' bahn sage behind the triscuits in aisle 3. you can thank me later.
ReplyDeleteIt's like tagging on Craigslist.
ReplyDeleteit is, but it'd be even better if it had kinda sloppy ascii art of the korg ms-10 that's buried under all of those bulcha modules. and if rev. devon was rev. freeze or something. you do have to wonder how many angelinos are currently dumpster-diving behind their local bodegas tonight, though. because hey, you never know...
ReplyDeletetriscuits?! did somebody say triscuits?! Here you go: link
ReplyDeletekool if its a hoax!! wich it probably is.
ReplyDeletethen someone in the synthcommunity has to check their head more than once, or be so bitterly bored with themselfes, not far away from me, writing this, right here:)
Tom
ps. i just feel for the buchlas as an old operator of'em :D
I'm just wondering for what purpose a church bought a Buchla in the first place. I know churches everywhere had Hammonds or sometimes Rhodes, which lead to a wave of finds, but a modular synth...It would have been more believable if it was a school.
ReplyDeleteYeah, and they just had an Elka Synthex and a DX1 to play "organ" on.
ReplyDeleteBo-lacks, me old mateys...
What kind of church would have 80 Buchla modules?
ReplyDeleteYeah, I can see the congregation "getting down" every sunday morning after service with tea, a biscuit, and an LFO with a lag generator cross modulating a step sequence while twiddling with the filter...
they have Buchlas in churches in the US?.. coool!
ReplyDeleteThe church in question is Our Lady of Modulars in Moogwood Heights. It's home the the Order of Arpusian Friars who can be distinguished by the patch-cords they use as belts around their habits. They are a silent order but are permitted to communicate with 1.2kHz sine-wave bleeps from portable signal generators.
ReplyDeleteWhat church uses a druggie synth?
ReplyDelete"...and the brand new Jupiter-8 has been sent to the leprous great-aunt of one of our parishioners...and the ARP 2500 whatchahoozit has kindly been turned into a bookcase after we removed all the confusing wires and circuit boards and such...and that big old Yamaha GX-1 was donated to the local dog food factory for use as a toilet."
ReplyDeletei guess ken elhardt isn't getting as much attention as he needs this week
ReplyDeleteOh my local church had a load of old mogo 55 stereo equipment which we gave to the local arsonist group for their weekly bonfire, they said there was too much metal in it to be flammable and left it in a layby near J6 on the M25. That was just now so if anyone likes old mogo or something junk head up there quick before the council dump it. Also reverend ringmod has decided that the old yamaha GXi or GX1 or something is outmoded so he is looking for a exchange for one of those modern casio organs as they are nice and compact, he is willing to add cash to sweeten the deal since the GK1 is so old. Enquire to the Church of the Poison Mind and speak to the reverand or his boy, George. Oh, I seem to have forgotten the contact details, nevermind.
ReplyDeleteI got a Hammond b3 for $200 from a church. They threw in an Arp Oddessy for free.
ReplyDeleteIn their trash they had most of a pipe organ that i was able to sell for about $2k
This Buchla might not be true but don't discount the stupidity of churches.
If its online its a hoax most likely, but some dumpsters do contain old synths. A friend in berlin dumpstered edgar froese's moog modular from outside his apt., i guess he didnt pay his rent or something (he was living elsewhere at the time). It was used by the local pirate radio crew for awhile... these things do happen....
ReplyDeleteYou guys would be surprised. I bought my Jupiter 8 from a church. The synth was donated, and it just sat in a storage room for 5 years before they sold it. The guys selling the stuff for a church found out that it was Vintage, and then saw that people were paying 2k for them. I dropped 2,500 bucks, and he didn't even know that this already had a Kenton Midi kit installed which was a plus.
ReplyDeletehere we see sister mary moogerfooger (mother superior, the little sisters of the lfo) evaluating rev. devon's synthi. she opted not to purchase it as, in her words, "it doesn't rock the phat bass".
ReplyDeleteTis a hoax, though I did find a Roland SH-09 in a public trash bin at the corner of Broadway and Houston in NYC once. Hundreds (thousands?)of people must have walked right by it before I picked it out. 15 years later it's still kicking. Magic does happen - just not on Craigslist...
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