[sdiy] LA Synth Nuts/Digi-Twanger

[harrybissell]

No... this sounds like a job for the
"Electronic Peasant" !!!

<cue theme music>

Armed with an old beach ball, a slinky or two
and some hacksaw blades... our hero the EP
swiftly dashes into the workshop and saves the
planet (well... recycling is GOOD, right) with...

The Digi-Twanger  ....   :^P

(meaning if anyone could build it, it would be you!)

post an mp3 ???

H^) harry

(also intrigued with the 'digi-twanger' ... but decorum prohibits
details
of MY design for such a thing to be posted in a pubi er... public forum)

epeasant at telusplanet.net wrote:

> > > --- Cynthia Webster <cynthia.webster at gte.net> wrote:
> > >> (What? the Digi-Twanger hasn't been invented yet?)
> > >> Get Busy!  :)
> > >
> > > Your wish is my command, Mistress Cynthia. I will
> > > invent a Digi-Twanger.
> > >
> > > Let's see: Is it a sequencer that only plays
> > hillbilly
> > > music? Or a VCO that sounds like a violin string
> > > breaking? Or maybe it's a ringmod that always sounds
> > > like a frying pan hitting Curly's head....
> > >
> >
> > Maybe just a triggerable Mouth Harp - without the
> > mouth?
>
> Hmmm, sounds fairly easy. But you do need some sort of
> variable air chamber for the proper resonance. I have some
> bellows assemblies and some linear actuators that could be
> combined to simulate the mouth chamber, as well as pumps
> and valves to simulate breath flow. Coupled with a small
> solenoid to trigger the harp and digital control over the
> whole mess, and Cynthia has a new product! ;-)
>
> Take care,
> Doug
> ______________________
> The Electronic Peasant
>
> www.electronicpeasant.com