From whroberts@iquest.net Wed Jul 07 07:15:14 2004
Subject:Re: The original vs. state of the art

It's not my intent to pick nits. I only meant that I don't think Laurens
Hammond would have used transistors in the '50's, unless he came up with a
design that was much more stable. (like his tonewheels).

Quoting mate_stubb :

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> transistor technologies available in the late 50's, that's what we'd
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> have instead of tonewheels. I'm just making the point that the (happy)
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> accident of when he was born has given us a machine with legendary
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> I'll bet my B-3 will still be ticking when my brand spanking new Yammy
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> --- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, Bill Roberts wrote:
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