Leslie stuff

[JWBarlow at aol.com]

Trimpin (a German born resident of Seattle) is a guy who's "famous" for doing 
stuff like this. I did a little search and found a few small things about 
him, though not much about his contraptions.

See:
http://www.otherminds.org/Trimpin.html
http://einar.com/trimpin.html
http://seattletimes.com/news/lifestyles/html98/alttrimpa_021598.html

And let me know if you find any more technical info.
John Barlow

In a message dated 8/6/99 7:33:37 PM, dkrupicz at interlog.com writes:

>I have a neat 'backburner' idea which would involve a trigger interface
>/
>sequencer (like for a drum machine...)  which would trigger little
>electrical relays so as to produce a electrically controlled mechanical
>percussion (like the hammer on a alarm bell...)
>
>Anyways, you suspend a whole bunch of metallic JUNK on a big steel frame,
>pots, springs, pan lids, etc. and you put 8 (or however many ) hammer
>mechanisims on various areas.  Now you get a few contact mics, and place
>them in strategic places, and voila:  You have a very noisy but very
>controllable percussive contraption, the idea being that it would kind
>of
>act like a giant spring reverb...
>