percussion ribbon controller

[Scibona, Joe]

How about getting the wire out of a wire wound resistor of the value you
desire.

i.e.. crack open the ends of a DALE high watt sized power resistor and you
will find a ceramic rod wrapped with a fair length of wire that will be just
the right value you select (say 3-5K)...
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>  Correction: I had thought an electric guitar string had virtually no 
> resistance, but I just measured the thinnest unwound guitar wire I have,
high 
> "E", and it has 3 ohms 
>  end-to-end. Still, I suspect it may be difficult to work with wire having
a 
> resistance that low. I guess the ideal would be 3-5K for the resistive
part 
> if your going to use this "ribbon" in place of the keyboard+resistor chain
on 
> a classic analog monosynth. With a lot more (50K+ or so) resistance I get 
> glide between pitches as an unwanted  side effect. Thats what happened
when I 
> tried to use videotape.  But, use too little resistance and it becomes 
> impossible to scale anything.
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