My late 70s PAiA adventure didn't end with the Gnome Synth. I had better luck with the OZ Mini-Organ. It was a portable battery powered unit with a built in speaker and a one octave keyboard that you could transpose with a knob. It had a cool touch sensitive modulation pad that was plenty expressive. The organic tone control the pad provided was inspirational and I recorded a lot of music with it, put it through fuzz boxes and strapped it on for performance art pieces in college. I must have been on something when the batteries died and I thought that I'd just plug it into the wall and see what would happen.
It blew up, of course. I mourn it still.
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