When the phono needle first touched down on Switched On Bach (Columbia MS7194) there really wasn’t a shot fired around the world. It was an esoteric few, locked behind laboratory doors or piled under records, who first picked up on the sound of the synthesizer. Our electronic beast of a friend just had no friends and even fewer were the numbers willing to expend the phenomenal cash to develop and popularize this weird concoction pT a musical instrument. In its primeval stages of development, the wall which separated the musicians and the technologists was high, but each day brings them closer.