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
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