From cold war to flame war (was: Re: Time to chime re: tube synth

[Romeo_Fahl at stream.com]

An artist friend of mine who was going through a Leonardo da Vinci phase asked
me if I ever considered building a musical machine made of wooden cogs, one that
could be driven by wind or water.  I thought he was insane for asking me that,
but now I think it's pretty funny.

Hey,how about a steam driven modular?

Romeo

Rene Schmitz wrote:

>A final remark here: Why useing 1950s technologies, when you could perhaps
>build a synth entirely *without* active devices, using 1890s technologies.
>I.e. electromechanical oscillators, motordriven pots, motordriven choke
>cores, relays and so on. A few years ago I saw some demonstration of the
>original stuff that Heinrich Hertz (yes that Mr. 1/sec) used here in Bonn
>to study the electromagnetic field. That was fun. Spark gap inductors to
>make high voltages, coils, capacitors, his detector for the field was a
>spark gap with a parabolic antenna. He had made a huge prism out of (IIRC)
>tar to see if the waves get refracted. All that without amplifiers. And all
>handcrafted!