Ribbon controllers (Was: Re: [sdiy] DIY slide-bars)

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Tuesday 27 July 2004 08:55 pm, Glen wrote:
> At 09:05 AM 7/27/04 , Magnus Danielson wrote:
> >Yes! I still have a few synapses to connect better it seems. Thanks for
> >pointing this out!
>
> There was once a home organ that featured a variation on the ribbon
> controller theme. It had a long row of several tiny rollers, placed
> side-by-side. It was interesting. I might be able to find out more details
> for you. I'll let you know if I do.

For some reason "Hammond X-77" comes to mind...

I only ever did a service call on one of these,  and the guy who owned it 
traveled around,  playing at various lounges,  etc. with an RV.  He'd taken 
it on himself to spray that roller assembly with some sort of contact cleaner 
that unfortunately attacked the plastic,  and then to compound things used a 
hair dryer to clean it out.  I don't think that the assembly was available 
any more at that point in time.

I don't think this was a ribbon controller of the sort you found on,  say,  a 
Polymoog,  which generated a CV -- I think it was more of an "arpeggiator" 
kind of a deal.