[sdiy] another synth id? Synth used on certains Wings songs

[John Mahoney]

At 03:41 PM 1/8/2008, anthony wrote:
>...
>Then there's the magnetic tape cello that some performers (one was 
>either Patti Smith or Patty Smyth - I think the former & Tim Kaiser 
>probably did - you should see his website: www.timkaiser.org...) 
>have used and I can't figure out why I haven't made one of THESE: a 
>stick to stand up like a cello or basso with a tape playback head on 
>it and using different bows strung up with prerecorded sounds of any 
>nature. You could really go wild with that and use 2 or 3 heads. The 
>bow could have multiple strands of tape and you could select which 
>one by rotating it. You could angle extra heads so that 2 tapes 
>could be played at once even. ...

Perhaps you are thinking of Laurie Anderson's tape-bow violin:
         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Anderson#Tape-bow_violin
I'm not aware that Tim Kaiser was involved with it. Love his stuff, though!

I've seen her play it live. :-)

JPM 


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