On Dec 11, 2005, at 4:46 PM, Jim Anderson wrote:
> Thought some of you might be interested in this. These things were
> made about 1940 and are more rare than a tron. Anyway, check out this
> restoration project that somebody just documented:
> http://www.discretesynthesizers.com/Nova/intro.htm
>
> Be sure to listen to the sound samples at the end. Amazing! This
> thing was way ahead of its time!
>
> -jim/m400#680 (...but no novachord)
Unless they dumped it, the Electronic Music Studio at McGill University
in Montreal has one of these beasties -- and it works. Since I was
always up there anyway (It was 1972 and they had a HUGE Moog!), we
would fire it up on occasion and make up weird 1950s Sci-Fi movie
soundtrack improvisations. It IS quite the machine, but having looked
inside, I would hate to have to fix one of these things!
Now if you think a B3 is heavy...
Rick