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Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Sound Machines - New Flickr Shot

flickr by turboswami. Anyone know what that giant knobbed rack is?



Update: See comments.

4 comments:

  1. Looks like a lab-grade function generator. i.e. a big box that can put out sine/square/saw and the knob controls frequency.

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  2. Kent is probably right, but when I saw it I wondered if it wasn't an old shortwave receiver from the '40s or '50s.

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  3. Yes, it's actually a tube-driven Hewlett-Packard scientific oscillator, circa 1951. It can be found mounted in many of Raymond Scott's lab photographs.

    I had 5 pics in this set, many of which featured the Mono/Poly and the oscillator with greater detail, as well as the DX-7 right behind, but, oh, the content sacrifices for that damned artsy angle!

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  4. Via Ed DMX: "that machine in the photo you were asking about is a reel-to-reel tape recorder without any tape on it. looks like a revox but it's hard to tell from the angle."

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