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| My name is John, and I guess owning three Ovations (Balladeer, Legend 12, and Custom Legend) qualifies me as an Ovation Fan.
I've been lurking here off 'n' on for several years, but never had any burning questions to ask, nor any irrepressible urge to post. But it belatedly occurred to me (I type quickly, but think very slowly!) that I'm long overdue to express my appreciation to Miles and Al for making the OFC Forums available, and to each of you for the posts here which have enriched my life. So please accept this woefully tardy and inadequate expression of my gratitude!
I've noticed a few threads in which I think I might make meaningful contributions, so I'd be delighted to have full posting privileges whenever it's deemed appropriate.
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Location: Jet City | syrynx... a Rush fan, or is that too obvious?
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| Thanks, Damon. 
damon67 - 2014-10-09 3:40 PM
syrynx... a Rush fan, or is that too obvious?
Not at all obvious to me! I had to search to find out what you meant, and am now listening to "The Temples Of Syrinx" for the first time ever.
No, after a long gestation, Syrynx was born in early November 1995, as both symbol and tool of a new phase of my life.
I'd had an Internet connection for a few months-- text only, which was all my computer at the time would allow. After only brief exposure to email and Usenet, I became fascinated (to the point of obsession) with this facet of the Internet:
Suddenly, it was possible for humans anywhere on the planet to communicate with each other, without that communication being crippled by the stereotypes which accompany our awareness of age, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or geography. It struck me that we humans could now approach pure mind to mind communication more closely than ever before. I wanted to experience it for myself, to find out just how real this possibility is.
I also realized I wanted a taken name. Nothing against the given name bestowed upon me by my parents, but I thought it time to join the actors, bikers, carnies, clowns, comedians, corporations, DJs, strippers, tattooists, whores, Popes and other members of religious orders, musicians, body piercers, jugglers, writers, painters, and others who had chosen a public name different from the one known to the tax collector.
I chose a word free of gender association, coined by science fiction and fantasy writer Samuel R. "Chip" Delaney. In his novel Nova, he described an instrument which in capable hands could produce not only music and other sounds, but realistic visual and olfactory effects as well; he called it a "sensory syrynx." The word obviously derives from the Greek syrinx, panpipe; now an English word for the vocal organ of birds. For me, the name represents both achievement and aspiration-- I have made beautiful music, literally and figuratively, but I have also failed. There's an ironic tinge, as well-- my own vocal apparatus more closely resembles the crow's than the nightingale's.
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Howdy, Y'all, and thanks!