[sdiy] Fwd: RIP Don Leslie

[Scott Gravenhorst]

Glen <mclilith at charter.net> wrote:
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>At 12:09 PM 9/4/04 , Grant Richter wrote:
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>>> Don Leslie, creator of the Leslie rotating speaker cabinet and the
>>> first modulation effect, has left this world at the age of 93.
>
>Not that I want to diminish the invention of the Leslie speaker, but I
>doubt that it's accurate to call it "the first modulation effect." I've
>seen pipe organs from circa 1900, with what look like steamboat paddle
>wheels suspended over the pipes. This surely produced a somewhat similar
>effect, and is certainly modulation. I would be very surprised if even this
>were the first modulation effect.
>
>Anyone care to hazard a guess on the very first modulation effect? Perhaps
>a drumhead that can be adjusted in tension while playing?
>
>
>later,
>Glen

Pitch and timbre modulation of the vocal tract ?


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