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

[Glen]

At 02:57 AM 7/28/04 , Ken Stone wrote:

>>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. 
>
>A Thomas or an Eko would have been my guess. I do recall coming across this,
>but it was such a long time ago. Harry says Wurlitzer - I also came across
>the odd one of those too. Heck, back then, I don't think there was any brand
>of organ I DIDN'T come across...

I just asked a friend of mine who has been selling organs for several
years. (I can remember that he actually had one of these in his shop a long
time ago.) His first recollection was that it was Thomas who made the organ
with the "roller strip", or whatever you want to call it. Unfortunately, he
doesn't know which model it was. I was kind of hoping to eventually track
down the technical details as to how it was constructed, and see if it
would be of any use for a possible Synth-DIY project.

I'll let everyone know if I find any more details about this.


later,
Glen