So I've been building a 100% analog polyphonic synthesizer with an unique twist. To use only vacuum tube era technology from the 1930s.
Over 300 neon gas diodes create the sound you hear. Pretty awesome for technology from 100 years ago.
Still a work-in-progress, but I wanted to post a video of it with the innards spread out across the workbench. : }
I call it the "Neon String Machine"
@mikemccaffrey It's true. If you showed this to anyone in 1930. It would have rocked their world!
There is always a lag of ideas behind the technology.
The technology can be available, but the cultural mindset hasn't caught up yet.
It makes me wonder if there are things like that today.
@AceArsenault Oh, there are.
In fact, writing as someone who tends to enjoy that "no man's land" of the bleeding edge, it can feel REALLY WEIRD when something that used to be extremely fringe becomes more mainstream.
So much so that I have more than once, found myself abandoning something(s) I used to really enjoy because: I enjoy the thing(s), not throngs of people.
Andrew "Ace" Arsenault
Mike McCaffrey 
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