[sdiy] anybody used a Freeman string machine?

[tj]

> Hopefully somebody can save me trying to figure out the diagram of the  
> bussing on this thing.  I've completely gone through it...rebuilt  
> keyboard, repaired cracks in boards and bad solder and blown transistors  
> and missing chips and bad capacitors and on and on.  12 hours or so  
> later... all working great except I'm wondering if it's normal when you  
> press 'low' out to be totally missing the upper octave.  -Bob

That is exactly how mine worked. Low was 5 octave range, and the High was  
the same exact notes doubled an octave higher. So High it was missing the  
top 12 notes as it did not have those, if that makes sense. The same  
effect as holding two of the same note an octave apart.
The original pedal was neat, as it had a switch under the top left part of  
the pedal surface. It would drop the whole keyboard down a semi tone.
Now the entire time I owned one, I never knew it had aftertouch vibrato?  
Does it?