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Re: BluTron on ebay

2008-02-14 by James Bailey

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, Bruce Daily <pocotron@...>
wrote:
>
> I am still trying to figure out the reason for the
> flywheel hole. Bearing replacement? Or, maybe the
> flywheel & capstan tried to escape when the tapes &
> frame were being butchered.

I wondered if it might be for pitch bending*, without needing to have
the top removed.

Jim Bailey

*I seem to recall reading here (or more likely, the old list) that this
is sometimes called pitch "diving". If such a thing were done using a
muff cover, would that make it muff diving?

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