[sdiy] Tape head collage (pretty much not synth DIY, sorry)

[Oakley Sound]

> Also reportedly Laurie Anderson used a violin with a tape head near
the
> bridge and a bow strung up with mag tape instead of horsehair.

There was an article on Laurie Anderson in E&MM in the early 1980s and
she mentions the use of this. I know I wasn't the only one who then
tried it out...

I used a piece of cassette tape stuck to a 12" ruler. The tape head and
amp came from an old shoe box cassette recorder. I recorded several
peices of material for the short bit of tape. the most success I had was
with a 440Hz square wave.

The results were ... shall we say, of scientific interest only. I stuck
to building keyboards after that.

Regards,

Tony Allgood                           www.oakleysound.com

Oakley Modular Synthesisers      Penrith, Cumbria, England