[sdiy] Electronic Musical Instruments

[Paul Higgins]

The late Norman Crowhurst (passed away a few years ago) is probably 
best known for his superb technical writing on issues of high fidelity 
electronics, particularly vacuum-tube circuitry (although most of his 
advice generalizes to more modern electronics quite nicely).  This book 
showed up recently in some research I was doing, and it's not exactly 
common; I think that I found it using a worldwide database.

Although some of the material in the book might be a bit dated, 
Crowhurst is a real authority, and you can't beat a price of 50 cents.  
(File it away for historical value, I guess).

-PRH

On Monday, April 12, 2004, at 12:54 AM, Glen wrote:

> Something very rare has happened. I found a book describing the 
> technical
> aspects of synthesizers at my local thrift store. It's title is 
> "Electronic
> Musical Instruments", and was written by Norman Crowhurst.
>
> It's an older book, first published in 1971, and the most recent date
> listed is 1974. It's pretty cool to look through and see what were
> promising technologies at the time. For example, the Ondes Martinot 
> and the
> Ondioline were mentioned in a paragraph titled "MODERN DEVELOPMENTS".
>
> Best of all, I bought it for only 50 cents.  :)
>
> Oddly enough, no one else in my family seems interested in this rare
> thrift-store purchase, so I thought I would share the event with you.  
> ;)
>
>
> later,
> Glen Berry


Paul Higgins
email: higg0008 at tc.umn.edu