[sdiy] good books on electronic music/ electronics history?

[Horton]

The Allen Strange book....there HAS to be PDF's of that old dinosaur
floating around. Someone hit me with a download link or something
off-list? There's no reason for people to be paying old, irrelevant
McGraw-Hill ANYTHING for their mimeograph-quality print-on-demand
horse crap. Give me a bound textbook or GTFO

- AH




On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Tim Stinchcombe
<tim102 at tstinchcombe.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>> > There still is (again and again): Allen Strange, Electronic Music
>> > Systems, Techniques and Controls, 2nd edition, Wm. C. Brown Co.
>> > Publishers, Iowa, USA. ISBN 0-697-03602-2*
>
>> too bad that book is listed as 100 dollars at amazon!!
>
> Well my copy is a 'print on demand' by McGraw Hill Primis, the ISBN no. is
> 0075232197. I've had it for several years, and have little recollection as
> to the cost. However, having trawled around their website I did eventually
> manage to find it (it is a shite-awful website it has to be said - searching
> for it yielded nothing!):
>
> <http://www.primisonline.com/cgi-bin/POL_program.cgi?programCode=STRGE&conte
> xt=>
>
> So if you can be bothered to spend the time working out how on earth it
> works (it looks like you can put whichever sections together you like), you
> might actually get somewhere... (A quick check on the page count seems like
> it *is* all there) My copy looks like a just-about-readable photocopy, so it
> is not that brilliant (but better than not at all!). Good luck!
>
> Tim
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