I have a Stroboconn in the shop attic. It was given to my father when he started tuning in the mid-70's by an old tuner. If anyone would like to see it and play with it, I can take it to Reno and put in the "Museum" part of our booth. Diane > >The only time I saw one was when Jim Coleman and Dr. Kent >were experimenting with tone, inharmonicity and scaling. >Cut machine. > >I understand about toys, I am a victim of toomuchitis. > > Newton > >Ron Nossaman wrote: > > > > >I think the "association" was a one of invention. > > > > Hi Newton, > > That was my suspicion, so I thought I'd ask. > > > > >The Strobocon was a twelve window clockwork monster that > > >likely weighed 40 pounds and was quite accurate because it > > >used Neon lights which flicker with the 60 cycle current. > > >No stretch of course, they didn't know about such when you > > >were born but by the time you were 15 or so they began to > > >get an inkling of it. The rotating wheels has the ability > > >to display maybe 6 partials. > > > > > > Newton > > > > My father in law, Tony Novinski owned one of these. He bought it cheap >from > > someone's estate and paid someone else less than cheap to get it working >so > > he could play with it. It sat on a shelf in his shop for years, and the > > only time he turned it on was to show it off to someone. Truly a strange > > and wonderful contraption. The Stroboconn was too. > > > > Ron N _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
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