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Sympathetic Vibrations. I
remember a cello lesson I had as a child in which I was
particularly fascinated with how a string on the cello would vibrate
seemingly all by itself, when in tune with the same note played on
another cello. Later I found out that there was a term for this
acoustic phenomenon - sympathetic vibration. Space & Electronics. At the
time I was also more interested in building
electronic
oscillators than practising my cello scales. I was particularly
fascinated with the way in which different objects in the room could be
made to vibrate as I tuned the oscillator to different frequencies. Records & Radio. My
parents owned a Deutsche Gramophone recording
of Beethoven’s fifth piano concerto which I loved to listen to while
constructing my electronic circuits. Later I was given an old radio by
an aunt and the whole world of popular music flowed in through its
loudspeaker and shook up my room. I gave up the dream of building my
own synthesizer, bought one and started making music with it...
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