[sdiy]RE: [sdiy] Tape Head Derived Thereminish Thing

[rdrake]

many years ago, read about a guy pasting many snippets of recorded tape to a large rectangular surface, and then playing it by dragging live tape heads across the tape... originally, thinking he could do some crude sampling/ scratching my following a specific tape thread to play it back variable speed, but couldn't get things aligned accurately... 

i've always wanted to do that.  

bbob

>----- ------- Original Message ------- -----
>From: rdd at rddavis.org
>To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
>Sent: 30 Aug 2005 14:44:07
>
>Quothe Scott Gravenhorst, from writings of Tue, Aug
>30, 2005 at
>10:58:07AM -0700:
>> Why is this post here on SDIY in the first place?
> ...I'm trying to think of things
>to do with a zip-lock bag full of of cassette tape recorder
>heads... thinking that maybe creating an almost
>somewhat sort-of thereminish like synth with them,
>that could be played by waving a weak electromagnet over 
>them---which can emit signals from switchable types 
>of waveforms, with each head attached to a circiuit that's 
>tuned to a specific frequency, might be fun.
>
>Any thoughts?	Hopefully I didn't toss these heads
>out... which is
>highly unlikely; about 25 years after finding them
>in a Radio Shack
>grab-box of misc. parts, they're probably still
>around here
>somewhere. :-)
>
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