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Subject: Re: Pitch Shifter

From: "cormallen" <motm@...>
Date: 2004-12-27

--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "paulhaneberg" <phaneber@o...> wrote:
>
> There is no such thing as an analog Pitch Shifter. At least as far
> as I know.

If I remember correctly, the mathematician Dennis Gabor (of Gabor Wavelet fame) built an
analogue pitch-shifter using a drum wrapped in tape and read/record tape heads that
rotated around it. All completely analogue, but I suspect it didn't exactly sound like a
high-end Eventide :-)

Harry