That's the idea, yeah.I thought about it later and realized that the magnets could be in fixed discs and
the key, when pressed, brings a second interrupting disc between that makes
the connection to the drive shaft. Magnets could be set in the disc at right angle
to the spindle axle and the coils would be fixed around the axle beside the
magnet disc. Reduces the actuated parts to little tandem wheels in the key
end. Big O drive shaft, little o upper magnet disc, and the keyed disc.
oO
o___v
^
(the key, when pressed, brings a second interrupting disc between that makes
the connection to the drive shaft. Magnets could be set in the disc at right angle
to the spindle axle and the coils would be fixed around the axle beside the
magnet disc. Reduces the actuated parts to little tandem wheels in the key
end. Big O drive shaft, little o upper magnet disc, and the keyed disc.
oO
o___v
^
Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs,
Thu 27 Aug 2009, 2:12,
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I'm not a mechanical person (you might have guessed)but it could be a funny instrument to make
and some mad bastard is going to want to perform with it.
(and some mad bastard is going to want to perform with it.
discomeats This canoe,
Thu 27 Aug 2009, 2:15,
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It had also occurred to me that you could make a modern powered version.Small beads of steel in plastic discs, same actuating method, but use
standard guitar pickups fed to a conventional amplifier. If you used
beads of the same mass as the part of a string inside the pickup's
capture zone the result would sound pretty close to a normal guitar.
edit: BTW for any geeks out there.
Tone-Wheel organs use a variation on that idea.
(standard guitar pickups fed to a conventional amplifier. If you used
beads of the same mass as the part of a string inside the pickup's
capture zone the result would sound pretty close to a normal guitar.
edit: BTW for any geeks out there.
Tone-Wheel organs use a variation on that idea.
Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs,
Thu 27 Aug 2009, 2:28,
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fuck duh...guitar
OF COURSE!
this simply didn't occur to me
oh..
multiple guitar/violin type instruments
ahhh yeah
(OF COURSE!
this simply didn't occur to me
oh..
multiple guitar/violin type instruments
ahhh yeah
discomeats This canoe,
Thu 27 Aug 2009, 3:32,
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