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Ken Stone's classic 1973 paperface Serge synthesizer is an early one, dated 1973, fitted with 3.5 mm jacks and cased in a wood frame. This Serge was assembled by Warren Burt, originally for the Center for Music Experiment at the University of California, San Diego, and was imported into Australia to be used at the Clifton Hill Community Music Centre. It was later acquired by Rainer Linz, and used in a number of performances of Stelarcs. The 3.5 mm jacks were used because Roger Reynolds at CME felt that banana plugs would be too flimsy and prone to bad connections. By the time Ken received this instrument, barely any of the jacks were still operational due to bending of their contacts, and corrosion build-up. Being open-frame jacks, they were repairable.

From: Classic Serge (archived) by Ken Stone, 1999, with permission of the author.