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Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Electro-mechanical-optical tone generator

flickr set by msmiffy

"Photographs of a 1968 tone generation system of unknown origin."

Anyone know what this is?

2 comments:

  1. It's a "rhythmic oscillator." One of the other pictures in the set show waveforms on the disk.

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  2. Looks like a tonewheel to me. ?

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