Hi all.
I just wanted to give everyone a heads-up on a great little museum in the area: the Museum of Making Music ( ).
It¡¯s in Carlsbad, CA next to Legoland and in the same building of the NAMM headquarters (parent org). I¡¯ve been going there for years and have always enjoyed the displays and the special events and concerts they host. They just updated the whole place and added many touch-screens to the exhibits to give multi-media info about them.
There¡¯s also several areas where visitors can play various instruments from guitars to keyboards to drums. I¡¯d definitely recommend it for anyone interested in music or music instruments. Even little kids like some of the interactive areas.
In addition, I became a volunteer there a couple of months ago and really enjoy helping out - mostly helping visitors with the exhibits. The hours are very flexible and you can sign up for various blocks on a website. Lots of very nice people on the staff and the other volunteers. I¡¯d recommend it for anyone in the area who wants to help out for a good cause in the community. Oh, and if you work at least 60 hours in a year, you can go to the NAMM show!!!!!
I¡¯ve also found it great to have a place to get dressed to go to at a specific time after all these months working from home. If anyone has questions, please let me know. And, yes, they require masks.
And no, we don¡¯t have a CS80 there but lots of cool and rare instruments including some synths. A few years ago, there was a month-long Moog exhibition that included performances by Eric Norlander, Larry Fast, and Keith Emerson (with the big, modular Moog).
Related to this, if you don¡¯t already know, the big NAMM show near Disneyland has been bumped to the first week of June and Synthplex (where there was a CS80) is moving to Oct 2022.
David
