weird technology Re: [sdiy] cloning, copying, copyrights

[Tim Daugard]

> Let's try making (up) a synth with as much weird technology as possible.
> My votes: eyelets and old-style synth keyboard contacts made out of
> hard wire. And knobs the same size (and material and kind and model
> number :P ) as they use on gas ovens now. And lots of light bulbs! Who
> needs resistors?

Don 't forget nichrome wire for the touch strip. Hand bent spring wire for 
the keys. (I never did find a source for the spring wire.)

Tim Daugard
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