Author Topic: Found My Holy Grail!  (Read 175 times)

lbpesq

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Found My Holy Grail!
« on: November 01, 2019, 09:08:13 AM »
I gotta tell someone:  For the last two years I’ve started every morning with a search of reverb, eBay, and craigslist for a Mooer Mooergan pedal.  This is a clone of an EHX B-9 organ pedal, but in a mini pedal format. (The B-9 requires its own Zip Code on the pedal board).   The Mooergan pedal was only on the market for a few months several years ago.  EHX sued and forced Mooer to stop making the pedal when it was revealed that Mooer had not only copied the EHX algorithms, but had even copied the EHX copyright notice!  As a result, the Mooergan and the Tender Octaver (a clone of the EHX Micro POG- another EHX pedal roughly the size of Colorado) were removed from the market.  The Tender Octaver was replaced with the Tender Octaver Mark II, a far inferior sounding and tracking octave pedal, but the Mooergan was never replaced.   I was lucky to have picked up a Tender Octaver years ago,  but have spent the last two years checking for a Mooergan at least three times a day.  Well yesterday one finally turned up on reverb.  Ridiculously expensive, but after two years of effort, I had to get it.  THE SEARCH IS OVER!   Only goes to prove the wise words of brother Paul, the Bad One: “There will always be another”.


Bill, tgo
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Re: Found My Holy Grail!
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2019, 09:18:40 AM »
Don't know that much about them, but I do enjoy scratching things offa' lists. And having just scored a pretty cool piece of gear myself, let me be the first to offer Congratulations & Compliments!  :)

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Re: Found My Holy Grail!
« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2019, 09:56:10 AM »
Glad you persistence paid off, Bill; enjoy it!

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Re: Found My Holy Grail!
« Reply #3 on: November 01, 2019, 02:21:14 PM »
Congrats Bill! I picked up a couple of things I've been wanting for a while now, but nothing as rare as what you got! I remember hearing about that, how they copied it down to the copyright notice - it's like plagiarizing from the internet and accidentally copying the weblink!

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Re: Found My Holy Grail!
« Reply #4 on: November 01, 2019, 04:38:13 PM »
... For the last two years I’ve started every morning [and] at least three times a day ...


Yes, I think that qualifies as grail territory.   :)