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In a message dated 7/5/02 3:10:44 pm, ckeep@... writes:

>and speaing of lo fi, who would like to have a go at the lead sound from
>dr
>who--a classic that i'd love to emulate! 
>
the signiture lead sound was done with something called a 'wobbulator' 
(nothing to do with fixing cars)- It was basically a bank of 16 sine 
oscillators connected to a keyboard- fed to a revox type reel to reel for 
echo fx. They also had another lovely device called "the crystal palace"- an 
early blueprint for the 'leslie' rotating speaker cabinet?- but made of 
transparent perspex- so you could watch the inner workings (oOOOOhhh I just 
cream everytime I think of that!!!!) 

It's worth tracking down some of the early stuff made by "Silver Apples"- 
another one of Warhol's "Exploding Plastic Inevitable"-(but rather 
overshadowed by the Velvet Underground I'm afraid)-a very underated band- but 
Simeon used a similar device to the wobbulator- controlled by a typewriter 
keyboard- producing something not dissimular to the Detroit Deep House sound- 
but back in the late 60's- named aptly- "The Simeon"!

Tom