Today's wild idea.

[Ken Stone]

I used to have a gutted speak and spell stretched out on a piece of
chipboard that I used to use in electronic music. This one had been thown
out because it had a fault where it would start in some odd mode, and
proceed to talk in pure gibberish depending on which button you pressed.
 
>> I was talking to a friend, and we were thinking about playing with CV's,
>> ADC's, and speech synthesizer chips... It seems like you might be able to
>> get neat effects out of that, especially by running the output from a
>> sequencer of some kind into the ADC, and the output of that into the speech
>> chip (I'm thinking here of the kind that lets you use a byte or so to select
>> formants-- didn't Radio Shack make something like this?). 
>A friend has a book called experimental musical instruments and in it 
>there's a gutted speak and spell that has a silver platform and three 
>balls that you can roll around on it to change the sound... wild... 
>I can't remember who made it.
>I'll find out who published the book if anyone's interested.... it 
>came with a CD but i'm not sure if it featured that instrument or 
>just some sound work by the maker of it....
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>Rob
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