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Dennis Moser wrote:
> Ladies and gents,
>
> A quick Worldcat search for said title
> (http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/700395&referer=brief_results
> <http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/700395&referer=brief_results>) turns up a
> copy here at work ... I shall see if I can snag it at lunch here shortly
> for a further citation ...
>
> The Net, when inthe hands of a seasoned and trained librarian/archivist,
> is Your Friend ...
>
> Dennis
>
> On 11/26/07, *andy butler* < akbutler@tiscali.co.uk
> <mailto:akbutler@tiscali.co.uk>> wrote:
>
> Stockhausen, Conversations with the Composer
> Jonathan Cott
> Picador 1974
> (also pub by Robson Books Ltd 1974)
> page 92
> ISBN 0 330 24165 6
the above book I have
I think Cott has 2 mentions of the Springer,
but essentially it is a dictation machine.
Has a drum with a number of heads on it which can revolve as the tape passes by.
So it granulises the sound in typical harmoniser fashion.
It's a very good book imho.
the below book is a different one,
it may exist somewhere
if it doesn't exist then the photoelectric loop
player is possibly an invention of mine :-)
>
> sadly the book which described his photoelectric (canned) loop device
> must have been consumed when Norwich Library burned down in 1994
> (and our late Stockhausen scolar, Dr. Zvonar was unable to find
> any mention of this device in any book)
>
> andy butler
>
andy
>
> Goddard, Duncan wrote:
> >>> the tape based pitch shifter used by Stockhausen was called a
> Springer
> > Machine<<
> >
> > andy, how did you come by this factoid? I thought the only tape-based
> > pitch shifter was the eltro.....
> > gotham studios had one, & the BBC radiophonic workshop, & someone
> here
> > (my apologies) sent me some literature on it, which I may be able to
> > dredge up.
> >
> > duncan.
> >
> >
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