Here's an odd article sent my way via Brian Kehew of The Moog Cookbook. The image is clearly an ARP 2500. Anyone know more about this? Click on the image to read the article.
Update: this one appears to be debunked. See the comments. This is the same ARP 2500 shot from sequencer.de which means it is the same 2500 in the Synthorama Museum. You can tell by the extra module on top of the sequencer.de image. Credit goes to mr.scrappy for spotting the image.
Strange. The byline flipped Chet Flippo's name to Fhet Clippo...
ReplyDeleteAre we sure that's an ARP in the picture? There are a few modules that make me wonder - obviously it's based on an arp 2500, but maybe the inclusion of the extra modules and the huge keyboard was enough that they could "market" it under a different name?
ReplyDeleteA ten-octave keyboard? Really? Seems like some sort of "The Onion"-type spoof to me.
ReplyDeleteMust be a joke. That's a 2500. The original image can be seen at www.sequencer.de (http://www.sequencer.de/pix/arp/arp2500.jpg). Or just do a google image search for Arp 2500.
ReplyDeleteAren't we about due for another Ken Elhardt scam/ego trip?
ReplyDeleteExcellent. That is the same shot as the one on sequencer.de, which means it's the ARP 2500 at Synthorama in Switzerland. You can see the extra module sitting on top in the sequencer.de image.
ReplyDeleteThere's a MySpace page for Imagene Peise, mentioned in the "article" as the only person to record with the "synth": http://www.myspace.com/imagenepeise
ReplyDeleteAnd the only Google hits that come up for "Ominog Bangh", purportedly the synth player on the album, are for this MySpace page. I think it's all just someone's elaborate joke.
Ominog Bangh is an anagram for Homo Banging, and Shineyu Bhupal is an anagram for Lesbian Huh Yup, for whatever all that's worth.
ReplyDeleteElaborate Joke often equals K.E. In fact I wouldn't be too surprised to find him dropping in here shortly to 'defend himself against the lies' because someone told him he's being talked about.
Sloppy Photoshopping, too. Look at the keys in the center of the keyboard. About the 5th octave from the top there's two sets of two black keys.
ReplyDeleteThe text also claims it used an LFO to randomly detune the center two octaves, allowing it to play quarter tone scales. When did scales become random?
The oddest thing about it is that it's not funny.
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