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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?
Posted by matrix at 2/03/2009 10:16:00 PM
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2 comments:

  1. wayn3w2/3/09, 11:27 PM

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

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  2. Jesse J2/4/09, 1:09 PM

    Looks like a tonewheel to me. ?

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