[sdiy] Pseudo-historic design question

[Paul Perry]

Could be done with tube technology, which was pretty sophisticated in 1942.

For a purely mechanical approach, music box type sequencers triggering 
scrapers  (along the lines of mechanical gramophones) with plenty of 
variable speed gears, cams etc would do the job.

But it wouldn't be easy...
There is always beatboxing..

paul perry Melbourne Australia


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gordon JC Pearce" > Following a discussion in the pub at the weekend 
with some steampunks,
> here's a question I'd like to throw to the collective ingenuity of the 
> list.
>
> You have been transported back in time 70 years, to 1942.  How would you
> go about inventing (specifically) acid house?