vintage electronic instrument restoration

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Dear god, check this out.

http://www.discretesynthesizers.com/Nova/intro.htm

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 3 October 2005 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

If that were any more gear-pr0n, it would need a "not safe for work" link!

― Paranoid Spice (kate), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

That's great, thanks for the link. It reminds me a little of this project http://www.oldcrows.net/~jhaible/polykorg/jh_polykorg_clone.html

Seeing somebody rebuild something that complex is impressive but it's even more amazing to think of the people who originally handmade equipment like that.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

He finished the resoration, and has put up a few mp3 clips of it. (at the bottom of the page linked to at the top) The tone of the thing is incredible. It actually brought tears to my eyes! Have a listen, and bear in mind that this instrument dates from 1939/1940.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 10 December 2005 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

That's so beautiful!

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Saturday, 10 December 2005 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

wow

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 10 December 2005 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

...and those are mp3s, presumably with high end distortion and other lousy artifacts.

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

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